Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Wisdom

True wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone open the mind to all that is hidden to others. --Joseph Campbell

We think only of protecting our child, but this is not enough. We ought to teach him to protect himself when he has become a man; to bear the blows of destiny; to brave opulence and misery; to live; if need be, amid snows of Iceland or on the burning rocks of Malta.

No comments:

Post a Comment