Writing, Democracy, Calling, Children

WRITING
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

DEMOCRACY
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody’s equal.

CALLING
Taro Gold
Strive to achieve whatever you think you cannot, for it is on the path toward your impossible dream that you will find what you truly seek.

CHILDREN
Kahlil Gibran
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.

Zen, Communism, Exceptional, Children

Zen

Michael E. Angier
The only thing that has to be done today is to breathe.

Communism

Anonymous
Whatever their faults, the Communists did not invent canned laughter.

Exceptional

William Cather
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Children

Maya Angelou
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.