More from John Berger
Nothing fortuitous happens in a child’s world. There are no accidents. Everything is connected with everything else and everything can be explained by everything else. . . . For a young child everything that happens is a necessity.
John BergerJohn Berger One of the fundamental reasons why so many doctors become cynical and disillusioned is precisely because, when the abstract idealism has worn thin, they are uncertain about the value of the actual lives of the patients they are treating.
John BergerJohn Berger The animal has secrets which, unlike the secrets of caves, mountains, seas are specifically addressed to man.
John BergerJohn Berger One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.
John BergerJohn Berger The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house.
John BergerJohn Berger It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but words can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it
John BergerJohn Berger Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
John BergerJohn Berger The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic.
John BergerJohn Berger The spectator-buyer is meant to envy herself as she will become if she buys the product.
John BergerJohn Berger All creation is in the art of seeing.
John BergerJohn Berger Picasso drawings are like that… the Rembrandts are like that. The artist who most often did that was Van Gogh.
John BergerJohn Berger Yet the first symbols were animals. What distinguished men from animals was born of their relationship with them.
John BergerJohn Berger The impulse to paint comes neither from observation nor from the soul (which is probably blind) but from an encounter: the encounter between painter and model: even if the model is a mountain or a shelf of empty medicine bottles.
John BergerJohn Berger Never again shall a single story be told as though it were the only one.
John BergerJohn Berger If the public photograph contributes to a memory, it is to the memory of an unknowable and total stranger.
John BergerJohn Berger What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
John BergerJohn Berger
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When you are with your friends, control your tongue.
Stuart PetersonStuart Peterson And you have fast become my weakness, even as you remain my source of strength.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa No one else is on your path so why should their limits be?
Elezabeth SymondElezabeth Symond I heard many tongues in many languages saying that people cannot be Gods, and that’s a given. But what if people don’t know what was given to them?
Nikol MejdnNikol Mejdn Pride – it screams a lot louder than love sometimes.
L.T. PhoenixL.T. Phoenix Messed up people even see the beauty in all the shitty places.
Lara-LeanLara-Lean I loved you more than love was allowed.
Lang LeavLang Leav Don’t mistake your discovery for the absence of yourself.
Sania AbbasSania Abbas
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More on disappoint
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.H. Jackson Brown Jr. I think life goes through a cycle of losing and refinding yourself all the time. Everyone has disappointments all the time, some of them pretty small, some of them pretty big.
Bruce SpringsteenBruce Springsteen The next time you’re disappointed, don’t panic. Don’t give up. Just be patient and let God remind you He’s still in control.
Max LucadoMax Lucado Turn disappoints into discoveries, wounds into wisdom, and thoughts into realities.
Rachel WolchinRachel Wolchin No, I’m not (disappointed). There’s no reason to be because I’m on an incredible run. You always expect a loss once in a while. So when it happens, why be disappointed if I win over 90% of my matches.
Roger FedererRoger Federer Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
Alexander PopeAlexander Pope Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.
Sheryl SandbergSheryl Sandberg If I disappoint someone, it’s their loss for putting that expectation on me when they don’t know me. I can’t control what they want.
Simone BilesSimone Biles