Quotes
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.”
“Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?”
“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.”
“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
“You can have an idea today, and it can sit with your for like a week or two weeks, but if you don’t act on that idea it will go to somebody else, because that idea needed to come out, like it was it’s time.”
“Artists are like inventors, of cultural ideas and cultural objects. It isn’t something physical, it’s very ethereal. We’re essentially taking ideas thoughts and feelings and we’re kind of molding them into something that can give them a physical body.”
“Endeavors that I’ve been most afraid of chasing or trying to do have been the most life changing, so when I think I find myself doubting if I can do something or if I can achieve something, it’s more of an indicator that that’s the direction I need to go in.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been,”
“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
“Whatever you are, be a good one.”
“A person’s a person no matter how small.”
“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
“Peace begins with a smile…”
“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.”
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“Good artists copy; great artists steal.”
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.”
“Every day’s an opportunity you don’t get back, so don’t blow it working.”
“Maybe everyone can live beyond what they’re capable of.”
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”
“Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.”
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
“The past has no power over the present moment.”
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.”
“Grief is the price we pay for love”
“A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
“To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.”
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.”
“May you live every day of your life.”
“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”
“Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.”
“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
“When you’re in the process of trying to learn who you are, you might not know what you like, but you really discover what you don’t like.”
“God is the name of the blanket we throw over mystery to give it shape.”
“And if you can believe it… It’s a Friday once again!”
“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.”
“It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle.”
“To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.”
“If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don’t fear you.”
“A tree without roots is just a piece of wood.”
“Serve your food hot, serve it quick, and keep it simple. Allow mother nature to be the true artist. Allow her to do the work. You’re just a cook. And when you accept that in life, then life changes. Because like, artists, chefs are not too dissimilar. When they’re young, they tend to overwork it because they bring in all this information, all this knowledge, all this skill, and they feel they have to use it. But if you look at the great chefs, the great artists, they make it look so simple don’t they? They just allow it to be simple. So whatever you want to do in your life, don’t overwork it, don’t overthink it, and you’ll realise your dream. Trust me.”
“It hurts to breathe. It hurts to live. I hate her, yet I do not think I can exist without her.”
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.”
“Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.”
“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”
“If our condition were truly happy we should not need to divert ourselves from thinking about it.”
“Presence is the oxygen of deep relationships—silence the screens and breathe together.”
“Sometimes you gotta take a break from all the noise to appreciate the beauty of silence.”
“You will never reach your destination if you stop and throw stones at every dog that barks.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it is part of a tree. ”
“When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”
“women
don’t endure
simply because
we can;
no,
women endure
because we aren’t
given any other
choice.
– they wanted us weak but forced us to be strong.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.”
“God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars.”
“We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.”
“God has no religion.”
“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
“Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one’s weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”
“I think God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.”
“The wrath of God lies sleeping. It was hid a million years before men were and only men have the power to wake it.”
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
“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”
“To love and to be loved is to feel the sun from both sides”
“If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.”
“I am afraid I will love you forever and we will never be in the same room again.”
“When it’s gone, you’ll know what a gift love was. You’ll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.”
“Why do you care?”
“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers”
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living”
“Hate is a poison you consume in the hope of killing another.”
“Of all the offspring of Time, Error is the most ancient, and is so old and familiar an acquaintance, that Truth, when discovered, comes upon most of us like an intruder, and meets the intruder’s welcome.
“Many persons grow insensibly attached to that which gives them a great deal of trouble, as a mother often loves her sick and ever-ailing child better than her more healthy offspring.”
“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, one by one.”
“You have no enemies, you say? Alas, my friend, the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip. You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip. You’ve never turned the wrong to right. You’ve been a coward in the fight.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”
“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.”
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
“He that can have patience can have what he will.”
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
“Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
“I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.”
“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
“The very essence of romance is uncertainty.”
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
“When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”
“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Do one thing every day that scares you.”
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
“You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will live as one.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us.”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“I’m not afraid of death; I just don’t want to be there when it happens.”
“Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.”
“The more I practice the luckier I get.”
“Luck is when preparation meets opportunity”
