🧠 Dilanka’s quote cellar | aged, bold & worth stealing

Translation: People naturally prefer comfort and predictability, so they will tolerate an unfair or oppressive government for a very long time simply because change is scary and difficult. Human beings rarely revolt over minor, everyday problems. Therefore, because the American colonists finally chose to rebel, it proved that British rule had crossed the line from a minor grievance into completely unbearable tyranny.

For I could not forsee what paths might beckon you to unimagined heights that I might never know.

Yet, always in my heart I realized That you would touch a star . . . I’m not surprised!

The rest of us know that though we can have erotic love and friendship for the same person yet in some ways, nothing is less like a Friendship than a love-affair. Lovers are always talking to one another about their love; Friends hardly ever about their friendship. Lovers are normally face to face, absorbed in each other; Friends, side by side, absorbed in some common interest. Above all, Eros (while it lasts) is necessarily between two only. But two, far from being the necessary number for Friendship, is not even the best. And the reason for this is important.

In each of my friends, there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself, I am not large enough to call the whole man into activity; I want other lights than my own to show all his facets... Hence, true friendship is the least jealous of love. Two friends delight to be joined by a third, and three by a fourth, if only the newcomer is qualified to become a real friend. They can then say, as the blessed souls say in Dante, 'Here comes one who will augment our loves.' For in this love 'to divide is not to take away.

It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it.

It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position.

The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.

She said: Baby, come sit down for a minute. Let me tell you something life showed me after all these years.

Most of the people you see every day right now… in about five years, they’re going to be strangers.

Not because something bad happened.

Not because somebody fell out.

Life just keeps moving.

The coworker you laugh with every day at lunch?

Y’all probably won’t even work in the same building in five years.

That neighbor you wave to every morning?

One of y’all might move away.

Even some friendships that feel permanent right now… sometimes they were only meant for a season.

That’s just the way life goes, baby.

And once you realize that, something powerful happens.

You stop bending yourself into shapes trying to keep everybody comfortable.

You stop shrinking just so nobody feels uncomfortable with your growth.

Because the truth is… most of the people you’re worried about disappointing won’t even be part of your life in a few years.

So live your life.

Start over if you need to.

Choose your peace.

Follow what’s calling you.

Because five years from now… the one person still waking up in your life every single day will be you.