'Thaw with his gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other but breaks in pieces.'

'We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty. We loiter in winter while it is already spring.'

- Walden, Henry David Thoreau

it's amazing how differently we perceive ourselves from how others see us. hitler saw himself as creating the supreme race; the rest of the world saw him as a cold monster.
who knows who the real 'me' they really are? we all perceive things from differing perspectives, which is the right picture? a table upside down is still a table, yet it functions as a table no more. can it still be called a table then? similarly, when we cease to be who people think we are, who are we?