Wisdom in small portions
In order to express how you are feeling, what your own emotional world looks like, you usually don't need many words. Often not even your own. Quotes from famous poets, thinkers, and other historical figures can serve the same purpose. The 26-year-old Trille Nina from Berlin proves this in her blog : Every day she publishes a quote from a famous person and in most cases lets it stand on its own without comment. As a rule, she gives no context, no approach to interpretation and yet the quotes reveal a lot about the blogger and what she feels like at the moment.
It all started in the summer of 2012. At that time, Trille was in Copenhagen with a friend. During the vacation, one funny incident followed the next. And it was clear to the two friends that some of the experiences were so strange that they actually had to be recorded. “That’s when we came up with the idea of blogging about it. After the vacation I started. “I still haven’t completed the travel stories section,” the political science student recalls today. Instead of travel stories, her blog has become a kind of collection of quotes.
“Whenever I look for quotes, I could get lost in them,” replies the student when asked what brings her the most joy in connection with her blog. While browsing the internet, the bookshelf at home and maybe even the university library, that's exactly when Trille loses track of time and it rushes past her. Every day she shares one of her little finds with the online community, seemingly completely detached from any context. And yet you can learn a lot about the 26-year-old when you look at the quotes in fast motion: when she was well, when she was sad and when she was euphoric.
When Alfred Polgar's quote “People believe a lie that they have heard a hundred times before than a truth that is completely new to them,” followed by Dante's saying “The basic principle of our freedom is the freedom of the will, which is on the lips of many lead, but few understand” and Salvador Dali’s “If you want to interest, you have to provoke”, this suggests that Trille's thoughts these days revolved around the concepts of freedom of expression and the formation of opinions. Or when Graham Greene’s “Sentimentality is what we call the feeling that we do not share” quotes from Dietriche Bonhoeffer – “The more beautiful and full the memory, the harder the separation. But gratitude transforms the memory into a quiet joy” - and Pearl S. Buck - “Many people miss the small happiness while they wait in vain for the big one” - leads the assumption that the student was at that time dealt with the themes of memory and separation in a nostalgic way.
Trille's collected sayings from famous people are much more than just a collection of quotes: they are pieces of wisdom in small portions and an insight into their inner lives.
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Wisdom in small portions In order to express how you are feeling, what your own emotional world looks like, you usually don't need many words. Often not even your own. Quotes from famous poets, thinkers, and other historical figures can serve the same purpose. 26-year-old Trille Nina from Berlin proves this in her blog: Published every day
