Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.
The grass always seems greener on the other side of the fence. Many politicians promise green, green grass by blending niceties with delusion and by using alluring confidence tricks. They voice attractive tales and tell things, people like to hear. But the post-factual grassland often appears to be parched and barren. ("The grass was greener over there")
Without imagination, things were only as they appeared - and that was blindness. Things were more than they appeared, so much more. When he considered an oak tree, it was not just a tree. To someone small, like an ant, it was a whole landscape of rugged barky cliffs and big green leaf-plains that quaked when the sky was restless, a place of many strange creatures where fearsome winged beasts could pluck and devour someone in a blink.
The moment you think that there is no path before you, path disappears! The moment you think the opposite, path appears! All paths need people who see them!
The most beautiful sunset is the one which suddenly appears in front of you while you are walking pensively!