quotes July08

"It's not enough to have a dream unless I'm willing to pursue it
It's not enough to know what's right unless I'm strong enough to do it
It's not enough to join the crowd to be acknowledged and accepted
I must be true to my ideals even if I'm excluded and rejected
It's not enough to learn the truth unless I also learn to live it
It's not enough to reach for love unless I care enough to give it"
- unknown

“There is no use trying, said Alice, one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t had much practice, said the Queen. When I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
- Lewis Carroll

House: Poetics in the ordinary
"I have come to think that my desire is to free the space of architecture from several frames. Also that I have come to seek a space of freedom that has not yet been seen. This type of space will release our bodies and spirits from various binds, and make possible their own communication to the world. This space, however, is not within a special place or a special time, I have come to believe it is a place within the absolute commonness of the everyday, within the continuation of ordinary time. The space surrounding the body becomes one with our bodies, forms a place that becomes, though unconceived, an environment. It becomes a space without any particular objectification. This type of space in everyday life forms a frame that aligns and directs our bodies and spirits unconsciously. Is it not possible to glimpse another everyday existence deep within a crack in the everyday existence that forms this frame? I feel that there is an as yet unseen, renewed world of freedom within a new everyday life that develops within the normal, matter-of-fact everyday life."
- Kazunari Sakamoto

"Speak quietly and kindly and be not forward with either opinions or advice. If you talk much, this will make you deaf to what others say, and you should know that there are few so wise that they cannot learn from others."
- Dhammavadaka