Richard Knott

@509knott

I present a Humanist perspective, highlighting ideas on individuality, life's evanescence, ecstacy and the abyss! And the mutual need between a man and woman.

Joined June 2013

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    Butterfly sucking the flower's nectar... Illustration from"La Vie Parisienne", 1920s. Art by Julien Jacques Leclerc.

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    29 Dec 2018

    I'd rather be disliked for who I am than liked for who I'm not.

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    27 Dec 2018

    The Spanish proverb ‘no por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano’ is a reminder that all things happen in their own time, so there is no sense in rushing them. It essentially means ‘getting up earlier won’t make the sun rise any sooner’.

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    Everything in this universe is evanescent. Because it is evanescent, it is also precious. Spend this precious moment wisely and beautifully. — Haemin Sunim | | □∧◯

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    12 Jun 2018

    Kindness is teachable and contagious. It increases oxytocin, happiness, lifespan, pleasure and serotonin. It decreases pain, stress, anxiety, depression and blood pressure. Try it.

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    26 Dec 2018

    Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful. Albert Camus

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    Shall I abide In this dull world, which in thy absence is No better than a sty?

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    23 Dec 2018

    Life is so hard, how can we be anything but kind? — Jack Kornfield | | □∧◯

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  12. 23 Dec 2018

    "Things may . . . be condemned to be lost . . . when . . . there is an intention to sacrifice something to Fate in order to ward off some other dreaded loss." --Sigmund Freud, on the parapraxis of losing something, Intro. Lectures on Psycho-analysis

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    23 Dec 2018

    Pina Bausch. 1980

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    23 Dec 2018

    [73] The Tao is always at ease It overcomes without competing, answers without speaking a word, arrives without being summoned, accomplishes without a plan. — Lao Tzu

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    “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – TS Eliot

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    20 Dec 2018

    Only when you can be extremely pliable and soft can you be extremely hard and strong. — Zen proverb | | □∧◯

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    19 Dec 2018

    Poets fall in love with moments.

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    20 Dec 2018

    "She smiled at him - that smile as if they two together had managed to get rid of all the trouble in the world and were now at peace in their own heaven." F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

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  19. 18 Dec 2018

    "So do not let us under-estimate small indications; by their help we may succeed in getting on the track of something bigger." Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis

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  20. 18 Dec 2018

    "Are there not very important things which can only reveal themselves, under certain conditions and at certain times, by quite feeble indications?" Sigmund Freud, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-analysis

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