"How could drops of water know themselves..." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
How could drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.
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“He who is different from me does not impoverish me - he enriches me. Our unity is constituted in something higher than ourselves - in Man... For no man seeks to hear his own echo, or to find his reflection in the glass.”
“The aeroplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth.”
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
More on Unity
“Togetherness, for me, means teamwork. It makes us reflect how completely dependent we are upon one another in our social and commercial life. The more diversified our labors and interests have become in the modern world, the more surely need to integrate our efforts to justify our individual selves and our civilization.”
“Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.”
“As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage them to go forward.”
More on Nature
“There is a tendency for things to right themselves.”
“Snake's poison is life to the snake; it is in relation to man that it means "death.”
“The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.”