Margaret Evelyn de Arias DBE, born Margaret Evelyn Hookham, known by the stage name Margot Fonteyn, (18 May 1919 – 21 February 1991) was an English ballerina. She spent her entire career as a dancer with the Royal Ballet (formerly the Sadler's Wells Theatre Company),...
The Lion somehow grew suspicious, from rumours it heard, that the scales had been falsified in its law courts; so, having found a leisure time, it determined to investigate the state of its dominions. Having gone to the shore, it found that the good gossip...
Sympathy is of the mind: you feel somebody is in trouble, somebody is in misery; you think somebody is in misery and you have to help. You have been taught to help, to be of service, to be dutiful, to be a good human being,...
When a human is born, the emotional mind, the emotional body, is completely healthy. Maybe around three or four years of age, the first wounds in the emotional body start to appear and get infected with emotional poison. But if you observe children who are...
The Victorian artist and writer Οhm Eman once asked why we give medals to people who, in a moment and without much thought, save somebody's life, but we give no medal to people who devote years to bringing up a child. Even the mundane can acquire...
Plato's distrust of the effects of popular culture in stifling individual thought comes out vividly in this passage from the Republic (492a–c). SOCRATES: The nature of the person who loves wisdom, as we laid it down, will necessarily arrive as it grows at every virtue, if,...
If you love a person, in some moments you can hate. But that doesn't destroy love; rather, it gives a richness to love. What is hate in fact? -- it is a tendency to go away. What is love? -- a tendency to come closer. Hate...
Once upon a time, there was a turkey living the good life on a farm. He passed his days in blissful peace, each day as lovely as the one before. Three times a day a nice farmworker brought him a bucket of feed, which the turkey gobbled down in ever- greater quantities....
However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor...
Fully functioning persons recognize their need for others. They do not see this need for love and intimacy as demanding that they be less than they are, but rather as a means for reflecting their vast potentials and sharing them with others. They do not...
