Tag: Literature
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Three Latin Sayings On Time That Changed My Life Forever
Old knowledge for today’s life. Time is the stuff the world is made of. When you pay for something, you pay for it with the time it took to earn the money necessary to buy it. When you are with someone, you invest your time in that person. When you say yes to someone’s proposal, you…
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Three Quotes About Self-love by Joan Didion That Blew My Mind
“Without self-love, it is impossible to mature.” Joan Didion did not have it easy. She faced severe losses throughout her life. Among them were her husband and daughter. Thanks to her pain, she wrote two dazzling books, “The Year of Magical Thinking” and “Blue Nights.” From Didion, I learned to tame grief through writing. But most…
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Three Disturbing Life Lessons From Milan Kundera That Will Change the Way You Look at Life.
Discover the pearls of wisdom of this almost centenary author. Recently, on July 11, 2023, the brilliant author Milan Kundera died at 94. And he left us wonderful novels full of mind-blowing thoughts capable of turning your head upside down. As a small tribute, let me share with you three reflections of mine from three…
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Three Disturbing Life Lessons From the Most Mysterious Book I Have Ever Read
#3 — Act only when you’re prepared. Imagine that there is a descendant of one of the greatest military geniuses in history who continued the most famous work of his ancestor. Imagine that this lost manuscript was found thousands of years after his death. Imagine that it is found in the year 1972 written on f*cking bamboo…
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Three Soul-Healing Quotes by Nobel Price Winner Rabindranath Tagore
Learn from the wisdom of one of the best poets of all time. I have a disturbing theory about poetry. Poetry is like code: it programs our minds to feel in a specific way and vibrate at specific frequencies. That is why there are poems that make us happy while others make us sad. Therefore, I…
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Three Disturbing Quotes by Charles Bukowski That Will Blow Your Mind
Discover the pearls of wisdom from one of the greatest poets ever. I have always believed that good literature is an exercise in psychoanalysis where the therapist and patient are the same people: the writer. And novels, essays, and short stories are just an exercise of introspection where the author rediscovers himself in hypothetical situations. But…