"Straight ahead you can't go very far...." - Quote by Antoine De Saint Exupery
Straight ahead you can't go very far.
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
“Freedom and constraint are two aspects of the same necessity, which is to be what one is and no other.”
“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.”
More on Perspective
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.”
“Come out of the azure. Love the day. Do not leave the sky out of your landscape.”
“There is a relation between the hours of our life and the centuries of time. As the air I breathe is drawn from the great repositories of nature, as the light on my book is yielded by a star a hundred millions of miles distant, as the poise of my body depends on the equilibrium of centrifugal and centripetal forces, so the hours should be instructed by the ages and the ages explained by the hours.”
More on Change
“I am forever walking upon these shores, Betwixt the sand and the foam, The high tide will erase my food prnts, And the wind will blow away the foam, But the sea and the shore will remain forver”
“It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries.”
“There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.”