Ernest Hemmingway

“By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better.”

“Anything you have to bet on to get a kick isn’t worth seeing.”

“They say the seeds of what we do are in all of us, but it seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and a higher grade of manure.”

“Paris was never to be the same again although if was always Paris and you changed as it changed.”

“Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it”

Us

As long as we have each other, nothing else matters.

She

She wanted white roses spread on a frozen lake. She wanted a gold laced phone. She wanted crepes with strawberries. She wanted a matching handbag. She wanted too much of what she didn’t have. She got too little of what she did.

Justice? I’m sorry, what?

I believe justice relies on ethics. If we ask ourselves what is justice, we need look no further than what are our morals?

Expectation breeds disappointment

Expectations breeds disappointment. For proof of this, we need look no further than the cahiers de doleances in France, during the revolution. The ‘book of grievances’ was requested by Louis XVI, and so, much of the population voiced what they wanted to see. Smart idea, right? Wrong! The segregated population had all different sorts of ideas and a mutual consensus was only reached on few important issues, leaving many men with expectations unfulfilled. As a result, this disappointment was taken out on the inept aristocratic government, furthering the revolutionary movement. So is it smart to give yourself high expectations? No. Don’t make the same mistake Louis did. Don’t think too highly of yourself. Don’t expect the best in people or in situations. Flow with the motions – that way disappointment will strike unexpectedly and rarely. Prevention is the key. Don’t expect anything.

It’s tiring, doing nothing at all.

“In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is King”

– Erasmus

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“The soul would have no rainbow if the eyes had no tears”

Freedom

I am not old and I consider myself free. As I grow, there will be constraint – of responsibility, of obligations, of demand and of love. But, as for now, I am free. My choices now dictate how long and how strong my freedom is and will last.