"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
Albert Einstein.
S1 E15Unfinished Business
Isn't that a lot of pressure for you?
"Pressure makes diamonds."
General George S. Patton.
"Curiosity...
does no less than devotion, pilgrims make."
Abraham Cowley.
"The life which is unexamined, is not worth living". That's Plato.
I wanted help.
And I'm giving you what you need. I'm giving you what you asked for.
"We learn by doing, there is no other way."
John Holt.
"Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand."
Baruch Spinoza.
"If life's journey be endless,where is its goal? The answer is... it's everywhere."
Rabindranath Tagore.
God! I like him.
I never expected you to stop caring, Erica. I just wanted you to stop letting that get in your way.
You didn't fail, Erica.
With your parents' opinions, and your, and your friends' opinions,
Yeah, of course, they're always gonna matter...
they just don't matter as much as your own.
AAntigone
I just hired this bright young thing, right out of her masters.
Let me guess, Literati?
AAntigone
Well, we are... the sum of our decisions, aren't we?
Yeah.
AAntigone
As long as you're happy, that's all that matters.
Samuel Johnson said:
"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them, as they are."
AAntigone
The truth will set you free.
The egg. Perfection, both in function and in form. It has a double arch, top and bottom. It's what makes an egg so incredibly strong.
But the minute that we begin to chip away at its integrity, the egg collapses in on itself until, in the end, we're left with only... breakfast.
It's still an egg, but it's not the same.
Our lives are like a house of cards. You know, some of the cards are... cosmetic.
While others are load bearing walls. You remove one of those cards and the whole thing comes tumbling down.
Like the egg.
Like the egg. Chip away at what makes you "you" and you become something else.
"Sarcasm: The last refuge of modest people when the privacy of their soul is intrusively invaded."
Fyodor Dostoevsky.
"Let your net always be cast. And in the pool which you least expect...
there will be a fish."
Ovid.
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