Quotes
“But that's how it is when you start wanting to have things. Now I just look at them, and when I go away I carry them in my head. Then my hands are always free, because I don't have to carry a suitcase.”
- Snufkin
“A person who thinks all the time has nothing to think about except thoughts. So, he loses touch with reality and lives in a world of illusions. By thoughts, I mean specifically, chatter in the skull. Perpetual and compulsive repetition of words, of reckoning and calculating.”
“Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.”
― Alan Watts
“Self education, I believe, the only kind of education there is.”
― Issac Asimov
“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”
― Thomas Campbell
“If everything seems under control you're not going fast enough.”
― Mario Andretti
“Everyone thinks of changing the world but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy
“All change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end.”
― Robin Sharma
“Bide your time, and hold out hope.”
― ??
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus
“Once more into the fray...
Into the last good fight I'll ever know.
Live and die on this day...
Live and die on this day...”
― The Grey
“If one is willing to do a thing he is afraid to do, he does not have to. It is the law of nonresistance, which is so little understood. Some one has said that courage contains genius and magic. Face the situation fearlessly, and there is no situation to face; it falls away of its own weight.”
― Florence Scovel Shinn, The Game of Life and How to Play It
“no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good. like gold or emerald or purple repeating to itself, no matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be emerald, my color undiminished.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
“You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one”
― ??
“For there is no quality in this world that is not what is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.”
- Moby Dick, Chapter XI
The tree that never had to fight
For sun and sky and air and light,
But stood out in the open plain
And always got its share of rain,
Never became a forest king
But lived and died a scrubby thing.
The man who never had to toil
To gain and farm his patch of soil,
Who never had to win his share
Of sun and sky and light and air,
Never became a manly man
But lived and died as he began.
Good timber does not grow with ease:
The stronger wind, the stronger trees;
The further sky, the greater length;
The more the storm, the more the strength.
By sun and cold, by rain and snow,
In trees and men good timbers grow.
Where thickest lies the forest growth,
We find the patriarchs of both.
And they hold counsel with the stars
Whose broken branches show the scars
Of many winds and much of strife.
This is the common law of life.
- Douglas Malloch
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
- J.R.R. Tolkien
“It seems probable that once the machine thinking method had started, it would not take long to outstrip our feeble powers… They would be able to converse with each other to sharpen their wits. At some stage therefore, we should have to expect the machines to take control.”
― Alan Turing
“A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possess at least two things besides: gratitude and purity.”
“Instinct is the most intelligent of all kinds of intelligence which have hitherto been discovered.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
“Learn to Sell, Learn to Build If you can do both, you will be unstoppable”
- Naval Ravikant
The Brain—is wider than the Sky—
For—put them side by side—
The one the other will contain
With ease—and you—beside—
The Brain is deeper than the sea—
For—hold them—Blue to Blue—
The one the other will absorb—
As sponges—Buckets—do—
The Brain is just the weight of God—
For—Heft them—Pound for Pound—
And they will differ—if they do—
As Syllable from Sound—
- Emily Dickinson
“This story is not about madness. That assertion requires more time than I have to defend it. But in brief, the voices of spirits are not like the voices of madness. The voices of madness are frequent, with many many words, and many of these words are mean and harsh. Voices of spirits tend to be short, brief and positive. They feel different, they feel richer and less alien than the voices of madness. And the fact that training and practice seem to bring them on suggests that there's something much more basic here about the relationship that humans have with their own thoughts. It suggests that it's possible to learn to experience some thoughts as not me and not inside and if humans do so with the intent of experiencing an invisible other, humans can come to experience that invisible other as real and responsive.”
- Tanya Luhrmann