Thursday, August 20, 2009
The words of others

I love quotes. They're short, smart and make great sound bites.

Here're two I came across today:

How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin. -Ronald Reagan

but it's this one I really like:

Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem. -W. Somerset Maugham

Throughout our lives we all wear masks from time to time, sometimes to maliciously deceive, at others to hide our weaknesses. Do it too much and we may lose our true selves, but if it is weakness we were hiding, then is it an overcoming of a flaw or becoming someone we're not? hm.