The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.
Interpretation
Happiness is achieved through tolerance, even in difficult situations.
This quote explores the idea that tolerance is a cornerstone of happiness, suggesting that our ability to accept others' differences directly influences our well-being. However, it also raises an important point about extreme situations where intolerance can lead to violence, implying that communication and understanding are essential in resolving conflicts instead of resorting to aggressive means.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a discussion on conflict resolution.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
A man's rights rest in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.
I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
I shall strive not to be guilty of adding any fuel to the flames of hatred and passion which, if continued to be fed, promise to burn up whatever is left by the war of decent human feeling in Europe.
The soul is the prison of the body.
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
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