The cockiest man in the room should usually be the one who has bled the most in private. Confidence becomes ugly only when it is trying to skip the apprenticeship. But when the scars are real, when the repetitions are real, when the results are undeniable, a certain cold pride becomes appropriate.
Your gentleness and good behavior are only respected and appreciated and admired when you possess the absolute capacity for harm & evil, and others are well aware of it.
What is love? Ask 19 geniuses. Get 19 answers.
• Plato: It's remembering a soul.
• Freud: It's desire in disguise.
• Buddha: It's letting go.
• Nietzsche: It's dangerous weakness.
• Aristotle: It's one soul in two bodies.
• Kafka: It's a wound that doesn't heal.
• Darwin: It's nature's oldest trick.
• Dostoevsky: It's suffering willingly chosen.
• Einstein: It's gravity of the heart.
• Shakespeare: It's the fool's greatest madness.
• Schopenhauer: It's biology pretending to be poetry.
• Marx: It's a luxury the poor can't afford.
• Gandhi: It's the only true revolution.
• Tolstoy: It's service, nothing more.
• Proust: It's a memory we keep rewriting.
• Marcus Aurelius: It's the only worthy ambition.
• Bertrand Russell: It's the one escape from loneliness.
• Rumi: It's the fire that burns everything false.
• Oscar Wilde: It's the one thing money almost buys
story from a buddy's dad
at a restaurant in NYC. sees Rodney Dangerfield sitting at the bar, alone, eating spaghetti with his hands.
walks over. "Rodney, I'm a HUGE fan-"
Rodney cuts him off, turns and goes:
"What is this, a gay bar?"
...and goes right back to his spaghetti.
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