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De tener un perro es de vivir en un estado de vigilancia.

~🌸I hope decency is the next cool trend🌸~

#cartoon #cartoons #humour #aphorisms #wisdom #quadrinhos #satire

Black and white charcoal drawing of an hobo in ragged winter clothes with a bowler hat and a walking cane. The man is in a barren land with a dead tree on the left of the image and a giant inkwell toadstool on the right and says: "Those who support the old fairy tale of reaching success “Starting from zero”, often ignore the fact that a lot of people have to start from -30 or less..."

Not the sharpest knife in the back.

Wait. Let me start over.

#WaitLetMeStartOver #aphorisms

One thing that fascinates me about English, especially the dialect spoken in corporate America is that as long as something follows a certain cadence, people will consider it wise regardless of the actual content of the statement.

For example, I recently saw this on someone’s whiteboard: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. “

What? Lack of knocking has no relationship to the presence or non-presence of a door. It means no one is using the door you already have. Building a new door will not increase the number of knocks. It will only confuse people.

And yet, because it followed the general pattern of a certain kind of inspirational saying, someone thought it was valuable enough to take the time to write it out longhand. Amazing.

#english
#corporate
#aphorisms
#mindless
#ABoringDystopia

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"Der wahre Weg geht über ein Seil, das nicht in der Höhe gespannt ist, sondern knapp über dem Boden. Es scheint mehr bestimmt stolpern zu machen, als begangen zu werden."

"The true path leads along a rope stretched, not high in the air, but barely above the ground. It seems designed more for stumbling than for walking along it."

#quotes
#aphorisms
#German
#FranzKafka

The Aphorisms of Franz Kafka, 2022

A splendid new translation of an extraordinary work of modern literature—featuring facing-page commentary by Kafka's acclaimed biographer
In 1917 and 1918, Franz Kafka wrote a set of more than 100 aphorisms, known as the Zürau #aphorisms, after the Bohemian village in which he composed them. Among the most mysterious of Kafka's writings, they explore philosophical questions about truth, good and evil, and the spiritual and sensory world.

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This is the first annotated, bilingual volume of these extraordinary writings, which provide great insight into Kafka's mind. Edited, introduced, and with commentaries by preeminent Kafka biographer and authority Reiner Stach, and freshly translated by Shelley Frisch, this beautiful volume presents each aphorism on its own page in English and the original German, with accessible and enlightening notes on facing pages.
The most complex of Kafka's writings, the aphorisms merge literary and analytical thinking.

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Heimat ist
Nur ein anderes
Wort für Schmerz

#poetry #lyrik #gedicht #gedichte #poesie #schreiben #aphorismus #aphorisms #heimat #zuhause #rehe

Heimat ist
Nur ein anderes
Wort für Schmerz

Hintergrund: Rehe vor einem dörflich anmutenden Haus während der blauen Stunde kurz vor der Dunkelheit.

Wer sich die Nase parfümiert, riecht die eigene Scheiße nicht.

#poetry #lyrik #gedicht #gedichte #poesie #schreiben #aphorismus #aphorisms

Wer sich die Nase parfümiert, riecht die eigene Scheiße nicht.

Hintergrund: Hundescheiße auf gepflastertem Boden.

Weil Fische weinen
Wird das Meerwasser salzig
Nicht weil sie lachen

#poetry #lyrik #gedicht #gedichte #poesie #schreiben #meer #ocean #aphorismus #aphorisms

Weil Fische weinen
Wird das Meerwasser salzig
Nicht weil sie lachen

Hintergrund: Wellen, die sich an Felsen im Meer brechen

“La maggioranza degli uomini è cattiva.”
Biante (600-530 a.C.)

"Most people are evil"
Bias (6th century BC)

#Quotes #Aphorisms #Aforismi #Massime #Filosofia #Phylosophy #Vita #Life

Busto marmoreo di Biante
Marble bust of Bias

Just a reminder to those who didn't see it last Friday, I am moving my Fediverse presence to @wist -- check out that address to get your daily dosage of #quotes, #quotations, #aphorisms, etc.!

Clip art of a moving van, its passenger waving at the viewer.

Excited to see that my forthcoming #book, a collection of my New & Selected #Aphorisms is available for pre-order in the #UK, today 😇 www.waterstones.com/book/what-re...

Kindly, help me get the word out, if you appreciate #poetry, proverbs, #meditation, wit and #wisdom, #philosophy, #spirituality 🙏🏼✨

https://www.waterstones.com/book/what-remains-to-be-said/yahia-lababidi/9781804323649 #books #bookstodon #reading #writing #WritingCommunity #inspiration

'Better mad with the crowd than sane all alone...'

Baltasar Gracián

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#quotes
#essays
#aphorisms

#SquirrelMeme remembers that before there was social media, people would post their bon mots on bumper stickers and books of aphorisms.  🚙🐿️📖 #aphorisms #squirrel

A grey squirrel says “Before social media posts, there were bumper stickers. And before that, books of stolen aphorisms.” At the bottom is a tiny bumper sticker that says “Honk if you love bumper stickers!”

WHAT REMAINS TO BE SAID

#Video trailer for my forthcoming book of New & Selected #Aphorisms, spanning over three decades since I began composing these short meditations, in my late teens.

If you enjoy it, please, share 🙏

https://youtu.be/kvuBWN_OUnQ?si=rOdIhmkDrsNHiwkl
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