Stephen Greenblatt Quote

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

The day when the fire that we had lit in our minds reaches our hearts, we will start turning every person that we come in contact with into ashes. We become the ghosts that we always feared.

Education is the best provision for old age.

One of these days, will become a this day. And that day, will be the preeminent of days to come.

An average man is egoistic, proud and has strong self esteem. They always require partners who massage their ego not those who will drag their ego to the mud.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Children imitate their parents, employees their managers.