"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you."
There is only one success -- to be able to spend your life in your own way
When something is true many words are not necessary.
Where you came from never exsisted, where you are going never will, and where you are now doesn't matter, unless you can get away from it.
If I were two-faced, why would I be wearing this one?
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny
There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day
All changes, even the most longed for have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another
well sometimes i feel like an old piece of steak, precariously placed on a conspicuous plate at a pot-luck for a bunch of young vegans..
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd...Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery, and death...and yet...I think...this cruelty will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.
There are few things as precious as our emotions, and those so ignorant to play with them are at a complete loss of any good you might have to offer.
Age is a defection of experience.
My own working assumption of why we are here is that we are here as local-Universe information-gatherers and that we are given access to the divine design principles so that we can there from objectively invent instruments and tools -- e.g., the microscope and the telescope -- with which to extend all sensorial inquiring regarding the rest of the to-the-naked-eye-invisible, micro-macro Universe, because human beings, tiny though we are, are here for all the local-Universe information-harvesting and cosmic-principle-discovering, objective tool-inventing, and local-environment-controlling as local Universe problem-solvers in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe.
It is not for me to change you. The question is, how can I be of service to you without diminishing your degrees of freedom?
The things to do are: the things that need doing: that you see need to be done, and that no one else seems to see need to be done. Then you will conceive your own way of doing that which needs to be done -- that no one else has told you to do or how to do it. This will bring out the real you that often gets buried inside a character that has acquired a superficial array of behaviors induced or imposed by others on the individual.
We have reached the point where we are now possessed of sufficient information for each individual human to dare to exercise the option to "make it" rather than having to depend on the decisions of an educated elite.
We are most probably here for local information-gathering and local-Universe problem-solving in support of the integrity of eternally regenerative Universe
Dare to be naïve.
All of humanity now has the option to "make it" successfully and sustainably, by virtue of our having minds, discovering principles and being able to employ these principles to do more with less.
Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.
He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.
Our passions are not too strong, they are too weak. We are far too easily pleased.
It is very simple to play as fool! You don't have to prove nothing.
Kindness is just about the best you can do.
How vast those Orbs must be, and how inconsiderable this Earth, the Theatre upon which all our mighty Designs, all our Navigations, and all our Wars are transacted, is when compared to them. A very fit consideration, and matter of Reflection, for those Kings and Princes who sacrifice the Lives of so many People, only to flatter their Ambition in being Masters of some pitiful corner of this small Spot.
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children
To know is to know that you know nothing. Thats is the true meaning of knowledge
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
You don't really own anything you can't carry on your back at a dead run.
Where was it I read about a man who's been sentenced to die, saying or thinking, the hour before his death, that even if he had to live somewhere high up on a rock, and in such a tiny area that he could only stand on it, with all around precipices, an ocean, an endless murk, endless solitude and endless storms--and had to stand there, on those two feet of space, all his life, for a thousand years, eternity--that it would be better to live like that,than to die so very soon! If only he could live, live, and live! Never mind what that life was like! As long as he could live!...What truth there is in that! Lord, what truth!
Fantasy is a necessary ingrediant in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.
There is a certain satifaction in living a life in complete and total failure.
Life is like playing the violin solo inpublic and learning the instument as you go.
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.
"If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT."
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.
I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your expectations, and you are not in this world to live up to mine. You are you, and I am I, and if by chance we find each other, it's beautiful.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Life is very interesting, if you make mistakes.
I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned the hard way that some poems dont rhyme, and some stories dont have a clear begining middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the most of it without knowing whats going to happen next.
love your life poor as it is. You may Perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours even in a poorhouse.
I went into the woods for I wished to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life! To put to rout all that was not life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
To be awake is to be alive.
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
When you forget to eat you know you're alive.
Only the fool hopes to repeat an experience; the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing. Whatever we try to deny or reject is precisely what we have need of; it is our very need which often paralyzes us, prevents us from welcoming a (good or bad) experience.
When life hands you a lemon, say "Oh yeah, I like lemons. What else you got?"
When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both, it's health. If everything is simply jake, then you're frightened of death.
the boys didn't care, because on cold corners they stood three backs to one another, facing all the winds, bent, lips don't care, miserable, cold and broke, waiting like witch doctors, saying:
"everything belongs to me because i am poor"
But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes 'Awww!'
Sociability is a big smile, and a big smile is nothing but teeth. Rest and be kind.
Nature wants children to be children before men . . . Childhood has its own seeing, thinkin and feeling.
For all the sad things of tounge or pen, the worst are these,"it might have been."
No one wants advice, only collaboration.
In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.
Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions, if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one.
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of anybody else.
"Movies are open doors, and at every door, I change character and life...I live for the present always. I accept this risk. I don't deny the past, but it's a page to turn."
Humanity rages like a tempest, but I sigh in silence for I know the storm must pass away while a sigh goes to god.
Sometimes the path you are on is not as important as the direction you are heading. For, no matter if you take the Holland Tunnel or the George Washington Bridge you get to New Jersey, so long as you are heading west. The procedure involved in your path to Nirvana may meander, but a road worth traveling is will have its twists and turns.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.
Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition of Body: decaying. Soul: spinning around. Fortune: unpredictable. Lasting Fame: uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion.
By the year 2050, I do not know what language we will be speaking in the United States, but it will be called English and will sound alot like Spanish.
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Wink at a homely girl, it costs you so little & does her so much good.
Once a person has all the things they need to live, everything else is entertainment.
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world.
What a strange machine man is! You fill him with bread, wine, fish, and radishes, and out comes sighs, laughter, and dreams.
Nowdays people know the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple.
Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
We do not necessarily improve with age: for better or worse, we become more like ourselves.
Oh how I miss the previous years in my childhood. Everything was so beautiful and whimsical. It all seems as it was just a big apparition, forever continuing until you grow out of your child-like years into a teenager, and further on. If only life was that forbearing, maybe we all would have more applicable attitudes towards the constant ups and downs of life. Back when you were young, you could fly. Every deedfull task was easily conquered without great exertion. There were no common day worries. No need to torment oneself of unfortunate capabilities of the mediocre man. But as life progresses, you realize that these gay feelings can not forever reign your mortality. When you except that, you shall become more secure of the future, and what it holds.
Perfection means not perfect actions in a perfect world, but appropriate actions in an imperfect one.
Is this the end of everything? Fifteen minutes later and oh, how I've changed.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; Some blunders and absurdities crept in; Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; You shall begin it serenely and With too high a spirit to be encumbered With your old nonsense
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
We live on the planet of the Apes. Is that funny, or serious?
Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
He saw that nothing was good and nothing was evil: things were merely adapted to an end.
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
Be glad you had the moment
To know you have enough is to be rich.
"I meant," said Iplsore bitterly, "what is there in this world that makes living worthwhile?" Death thought about it. "CATS", he said eventually, "CATS ARE NICE."
It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally evil, but by people being fundamentally people.
It's a popular fact that 90% of the brain is not used and, like most popular facts, it is wrong. Not even the most stupid Creator would go to the trouble of making the human head carry around several pounds of unnecessary grey goo if its only real purpose was, eg, to serve as a delicacy for certain remote tribesmen in unexplored valleys, it is used. One of its functions is to make the miraculous seem ordinary, and turn the unusual into the usual. Otherwise, human beings, forced with the daily wondrousness of everything, would go around wearing a stupid grin, saying "WOW" a lot. Part of the brain exists to stop this happening. It is very efficient, and can make people experience boredom in the middle of marvels
I go by many names, under many skies, doing many things, yet am always at the same place. I eat up its power, reveling in anguish. I love, I lie, I am only a human. This is my life, no trespassing. Please.
"It doesn't happen all at once," said the Skin Horse. "You become. It takes a long time. That's why it doesn't happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand."
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
"...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness."-Simon Stimson
"I can't. I can't go on. It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So all that was going on and we never noticed. Take me back - up the hill - to my grave. But first: Wait! One more look. Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by Grover's Corners...Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking...and Mama's sunflowers. And fod and coffee. And new ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. ...Do human beings ever realize life while they live it? - Every, every minute? ...I'm ready to go back...I should have listened to you. That's all human beings are! Just blind people." -Emily Webb
Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
"Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers..... Choose DIY and wondering who the fuck you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pissing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life..... But why would I want to do a thing like that?"
Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.
This convict, this desperate man, whom I have pursued even to persecution, and who has had me beneath his feet, and could have avenged himself, and who ought to have done so, as well as for his revenge as for his security, in granting me life, in sparing me, what has he done? His duty? No. Something more. And I, in sparing him in my turn, what have I done? My duty? No. Something more. There is then something more than duty.
Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.
Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.
You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things.
He found himself understanding the wearisomeness of this life, where every path was an improvisation and a considerable part of one’s waking life was spent watching one’s feet.
"Against my will, I am sent to bid you....come into dinner.......Theres a double meaing in that!" Benadict
The world is conspiring in you favor.
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