The Paradox of Our Age

Fun Fact #2: I am a huge fan of quotes.

Really though, each and every one of my journals are FILLED with little tidbits from someone else's thoughts. 

Some short, and some long, but all seeming to have summed up my feelings at the moment. 

 

At first I thought I really just enjoyed quotes because of my ridiculously impressionable teenage mind.

But I have come to realize it isn't so much about stealing someone else's ideas, or simply not knowing my thoughts on something to the point that I find it easier just to take the thoughts of some random person out in cyber space. 

But more like I know my thoughts, beliefs, and ideas yet could never possibly express them in writing as eloquently as some of my fellow Internet beings. I feel like it's really more about reading something so well put and completely relatable and knowing that if I even tried to attempt at putting it into my own words I would just end up butchering the whole idea.

(Kind of like I am doing right now!)

So I will leave it at that.

...But how could I possibly write a post about quotes and not leave you with one of my favorites to ponder on??

So Enjoy this "tidbit"

 

 

 

The Paradox of Our Age

 

"We have bigger houses, but smaller families;
More conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees, but less sense;
More knowledge, but less judgement;
More experts, but more problems;
More medicines, but less healthiness.
We have been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor.
We built more computers, to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever,
but have less communication.
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods,
but slow digestion.
Tall man, yet short character.
Steep profits, but shallow relationships.
It's a time when there is much in the window,
but nothing in the room."

-The 14th Dalai Lama