Ephie/quotes

• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards - Søren Kierkegaard
• You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop. - Rumi
• There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards. Roald Dahl, Matilda
• His very existence was improbable, inexplicable, and altogether bewildering. He was an insoluble problem. It was inconceivable how he had existed, how he had succeeded in getting so far, how he had managed to remain -- why he did not instantly disappear. ― Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
• The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes. ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles
• There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. ― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being