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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Ideal teachers are those who use themsleves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • “...Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible...”

    Lewis Carroll

  • ShynerShyner Posts: 1,226
    edited August 2017
    Mr deleter
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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 40,593
    Pap said:
    Ideal teachers are those who use themsleves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross, then having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
    Kazantzakis-- brilliant!

    Pap, by any chance do you know the quote from Mr. Kazantzakis about how we are alone in which he used the metaphor of a bloat floating in the fog or the ocean or something to that affect?  I remember it from way back in the early 70's but can't recall which book it is from.  My sister told me that quote changed her life. 
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man [or woman] who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    Variously credited to Mark Twain or Edward Abbey.













  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    ^ :smile:  My father is a big fan of his work! The man knows most of Kazantzakis' renowned and unknown quotes by heart!.. :open_mouth: The one you referred to here must be from his book entitled Ascesis: The Saviors of God.
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • dankinddankind I am not your foot. Posts: 20,827
    "Love with your mouth shut, help without breaking your ass or publicizing it; keep cool but care."

    --Thomas Pynchon, V.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • donnaruhldonnaruhl Posts: 2,157
    Don't feed them,
    That's what they want.
    Leave them to gather alone,
    And they'll only have themselves to feed upon.
  • AnnafalkAnnafalk Sweden Posts: 4,004
    edited October 2017

    Wisdom begins in wonder.

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  • "There is no remedy for love but to love more."

    Henry David Thoreau
  • “Though nothing can bring back the hour
    Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;
    We will grieve not, rather find
    Strength in what remains behind;
    In the primal sympathy
    Which having been must ever be...” 
    ― William Wordsworth
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    edited February 2019
    Only a burning patience will lead to the attainment of splendid happiness.

    Pablo Neruda
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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Life is a lot like Jazz.... It's best when you improvise. ~ George Gershwin
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • “We are asleep until we fall in Love!” 
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

    “Everything I know, I know because of love.” 
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
  • Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
    Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
    Khalil Gibran, The Prophet 
  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
     "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers".
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • mysticweedmysticweed Posts: 3,710
    "once you hold the hand of love it's all sir mountable"

    rollings


    Is Sir Mountable your porn name?
    fuck 'em if they can't take a joke

    "what a long, strange trip it's been"
  • hedonisthedonist standing on the edge of forever Posts: 24,524
    "once you hold the hand of love it's all sir mountable"

    rollings


    Is Sir Mountable your porn name?
    Ha!  Well done.

    We are golden
    Caught in the devil's bargain
    And we've got to get ourselves
    Back to the garden

    Joni Mitchell
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    edited April 2020


    Don't let the sun go down on me...
    'cause losing everything is like the sun going down on me...
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  • Wish there was a way to reach you 
    Can't seem to hold my head above water 
    Can't save you
    Can't save me

    ME
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123

    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,392
    We'll be floating soon.

    (something said by no one in particular)
    &&&&&&&&&&&&&&
  • Winter is come. I am already dead.

    Velour Pants
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. ~ Albert Camus
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    Music is... power: to lift us up, drive our creativity, bolster education, and create jobs. Music is... inspiration: it motivates people all over the world. Music is... connection: we are all born with an instrument – our voices, our hands, our feet. We can all feel music. Music is... something we all share: it is in all of us and about all of us. ~ Denise Burnside (SMASH)
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    I guess that this is goodbye 
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    edited June 2021
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  • PapPap Aspra Spitia, Greece Posts: 28,123
    He who loves to laugh, can't get bad luck. ~ Chinese proverb
    Athens 2006 / Milton Keynes 2014 / London 1&2 2022 / Seattle 1 2024 / Dublin 2024 / Manchester 2024 / London 2024
  • skyeriverwinterskyeriverwinter Posts: 1,894
    Nature is not a place to visit.  It is home.

    Gary Snyder 
  • But I love my life man it's something to see
    It's the kids and the dogs and you and me
    It's the way it's alright when everything goes wrong
    It's the sound of a slow simple song


    Chris Stapleton


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