The String Theory

''There is something in every one of you that waits and listens 
for the sound of the genuine in yourself. It is the only true guide 
you will ever have. And if you cannot hear it, you will all of your 
life spend your days on the ends of strings that somebody else pulls.”










“Humans cannot reject temptation. When they are plunged 
into the depths of despair, likened to hell, they will hold on 
to anything that may help them escape from the situation 
they are in, even if it's merely a spider's thread, 
no matter what sort of humans they are.” 




SUN YU - 'Extreme Penalty'





“I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, 
used to compare myself with others, recalled all 
the smallest glances, smiles and words of those 
to whom I’d tried to be frank, interpreted everything 
in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts ‘to be 
like the rest’ –and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, 
I’d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency 
and once again start the whole process all over again – in short, 
I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel.” 



“But...books are so much more. Some of them are webs; 
you can feel your way along their threads, but just barely, 
into strange and dark corners. Some of them are balloons 
bobbing up through the sky: totally self-contained, 
and unreachable, but beautiful to watch.
And some of them―the best ones―are doors.” 









...and paths threaded with flowers planted by the mind...





“We cannot live only for ourselves. 
A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; 
and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, 
our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.” 



“If only we could see the endless string of consequences 
that result from our smallest actions. 
But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.” 






Baila Goldenthal




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1. quote - Howard Thurman
2. quote - Yana Toboso
3. quote - Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
4. quote- Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
5. line ― Katherine Mansfield
6. quote ― Herman Melville
7. quote― John Green, Looking for Alaska