JokerGem's Quotes

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Miracles enable us to judge of doctrine, and doctrine enables us to judge of miracles.

Blaise Pascal  Famous Quote

added 13 days ago

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Albert Einstein  Famous Quote

added 28 days ago

If you want to go fast, go alone, if you want to go far, go together.

Proverbs  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

Failure is the path of least persistence.

Unknown Author  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

I cannot do all the good that the world needs, but the world needs all the good that I can do.

Jana Stanfield  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

The people we define as crazy just might be more sane than you and me.

Jodi Picoult  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.

Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor, inverse hormesis -absence of challenge- degrades the best of the best.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

He’d sit on a bald man’s hat!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.

Jodi Picoult  Famous Quote

added 1 month ago

We seldom realize, for example, that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society. We copy emotional reactions from our parents, learning from them that excrement is supposed to have a disgusting smell and that vomiting is supposed to be an unpleasant sensation. The dread of death is also learned from their anxieties about sickness and from their attitudes to funerals and corpses. Our social environment has this power just because we do not exist apart from a society. Society is our extended mind and body. Yet the very society from which the individual is inseparable is using its whole irresistible force to persuade the individual that he is indeed separate! Society as we now know it is therefore playing a game with self-contradictory rules.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

added 2 months ago

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise for which we are later, in the fullness of time and understanding, very grateful for!

Oscar Wilde  Famous Quote

added 2 months ago

If you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

Jodi Picoult  Famous Quote

added 2 months ago

Follow your heart but take your brain with you.

Alfred Adler  Famous Quote

added 2 months ago

Donna needs a donut!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 3 months ago

Contact with reality is not an all-or-nothing condition.

Alexander Lowen  Famous Quote

added 3 months ago

To keep the mind empty is a feat, a very healthful feat too.

Henry Miller, The Colossus of Maroussi  Famous Quote

added 3 months ago

Fall in love with some activity, and do it! Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough. Work as hard and as much as you want to on the things you like to do the best. Don't think about what you want to be, but what you want to do. Keep up some kind of a minimum with other things so that society doesn't stop you from doing anything at all.

Richard Feynman  Famous Quote

added 4 months ago

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

Richard Feynman  Famous Quote

added 4 months ago

But every so often something shatters like ice and we are in the river of our existence. We are aware.

Louise Erdrich  Famous Quote

added 5 months ago

Don’t be confused by surfaces; in the depths everything becomes law. And those who live the mystery falsely and badly (and they are very many) lose it only for themselves and nevertheless pass it on like a sealed letter, without knowing it.

Rainer Maria Rilke  Famous Quote

added 5 months ago

Life is like arriving late for a movie, having to figure out what was going on without bothering everybody with a lot of questions, and then being unexpectedly called away before you find out how it ends.

Joseph Campbell  Famous Quote

added 5 months ago

As you move through life, it’s not going to be a bright sunshiny day every day. You’re going to have disappointments. But how you handle those disappointments is the important thing for you and everybody that’s around you. That’s what I found from being not only a player, but also a coach.

Ara Parseghian  Famous Quote

added 5 months ago

My formula for greatness in man is! amor fati: the fact that a man wishes nothing to be different, either in front of him or behind him, or for all eternity. Not only must the necessary be borne, and on no account concealed,—all idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity,—but it must also be loved....

Friedrich Nietzsche  Famous Quote

added 6 months ago

To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.

T. S. Eliot  Famous Quote

added 6 months ago

Thank you so much for watching - we leave you as we always do, with one more look at every touchdown from every game.

Scott Hanson  Famous Quote

added 6 months ago

In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves.

Carl Gustav Jung  Famous Quote

added 6 months ago

He laughs, in the way that I have come to admire–as if there are no fences holding him back, as if pure glee could paint all the walls of the world in a single coat.

Jodi Picoult  Famous Quote

added 7 months ago

Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment and merging of races, and we are still far from this blissful realization.

Nikola Tesla  Famous Quote

added 7 months ago

I left in love, in laughter, and in truth and wherever truth, love and laughter abide, I am there in spirit.

Bill Hicks  Famous Quote

added 8 months ago

I ascribe to Mark Twain’s theory that the last person who should be President is the one who wants it the most. The one who should be picked is the one who should be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House.

Bill Hicks  Famous Quote

added 8 months ago

He gave more moves than Mae West!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 8 months ago

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.

William Ellery Channing  Famous Quote

added 8 months ago

In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons, it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn't there. Or ignore what is. We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality. We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.

Alan Lightman  Famous Quote

added 8 months ago

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

Bertrand Russell  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

Mark Twain  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

When you put your darkness down on paper in the form of a poem, it gets out of your head. This is the first step in healing that darkness.

Marjorie Chesebro  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that some spirit is manifest in the laws of the universe, one that is vastly superior to that of man.

Albert Einstein  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

If you're not a race driver, stay the hell home. Don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Get the hell out of the race car if you've got feathers on your legs or butt. Put a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat that candy ass.

Dale Earnhardt  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.

Joan Didion  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

Eugene B. Sledge  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

The stuff of the world is mind-stuff.

Sir Arthur Eddington  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

I've seen that fish before!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 9 months ago

Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

Edward R. Murrow  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

The great lesson from the true mystics, from the Zen monks, and now also from the Humanistic and Transpersonal psychologists -that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends, and family, in one's back yard, and that travel may be a flight from confronting the sacred- this lesson can be easily lost. To be looking elsewhere for miracles is to me a sure sign of ignorance that everything is miraculous.

Abraham Maslow  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Harper Lee  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

Open still remains a free life for great souls. Verily, he who possesses little is so much the less possessed: blessed be moderate poverty!

Friedrich Nietzsche  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

There is a story that psychiatry doesn’t dare tell, which shows that our societal delusion about the benefits of psychiatric drugs isn’t entirely an innocent one. In order to sell our society on the soundness of this form of care, psychiatry has had to grossly exaggerate the value of its new drugs, silence critics, and keep the story of poor long-term outcomes hidden.

Robert Whitaker  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

Always remember you’re unique, just like everyone else

Steven Wright  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

Right now I’m having amnesia and déjà vu at the same time. I think I’ve forgotten this before.

Steven Wright  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

We love to see a child lost in the dance and not performing for an audience. To be happy and know that you are happy is really the overflowing cup of life. To dance as if there was no audience.

Alan Watts  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

If you missed this one, shame on you for six weeks!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 10 months ago

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Ben Okri  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.

Richard Evelyn Byrd  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Today, our view of genuine reality is increasingly clouded by professionals whose technical expertise often introduces a superficial and soulless model of the person that denies moral significance. Perhaps the most devastating example for human values is the process of medicalization through which ordinary unhappiness and normal bereavement have been transformed into clinical depression, existential angst turned into anxiety disorders, and the moral consequences of political violence recast as post-traumatic stress disorder. That is, suffering is redefined as mental illness and treated by professional experts, typically with medication. I believe that this diminishes the person,

Arthur Kleinman  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

It is beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. It means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

Jiddu Krishnamurti  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

Paramahansa Yogananda  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

It is only when compassion is present that people allow themselves to see the truth.

A.H. Almaas  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Not allowing people to go through their pain, and protecting them from it, may turn out to be a kind of over-protection, which in turn implies a certain lack of respect for the integrity and the intrinsic nature and the future development of the individual.

Abraham Maslow  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Because it is occasionally possible, just for brief moments, to find the words that will unlock the doors of all those many mansions inside the head and express something - perhaps not much, just something - of the crush of information that presses in on us from the way a crow flies over and the way a man walks and the look of a street and from what we did one day a dozen years ago. Words that will express something of the deep complexity that makes us precisely the way we are, from the momentary effect of the barometer to the force that created men distinct from trees. Something of the inaudible music that moves us along in our bodies from moment to moment like water in a river. Something of the spirit of the snowflake in the water of the river. Something of the duplicity and the relativity and the merely fleeting quality of all this. Something of the almighty importance of it and something of the utter meaninglessness. And when words can manage something of this, and manage it in a moment, of time, and in that same moment, make out of it all the vital signature of a human being - not of an atom, or of a geometrical diagram, or of a heap of lenses - but a human being, we call it poetry.

Ted Hughes  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

There is a mortifying experience in particular, which does not fail to wreak itself also in the general history; I mean the 'foolish face of praise,' the forced smile which we put on in company where we do not feel at ease in answer to conversation which does not interest us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

When I certify someone insane, I am not equivocating when I write that he is of unsound mind, may be dangerous to himself and others, and requires care and attention in a mental hospital. However, at the same time, I am also aware that, in my opinion, there are other people who are regarded as sane, whose minds are as radically unsound, who may be equally or more dangerous to themselves and others and whom society does not regard as psychotic and fit persons to be in a madhouse.

R. D. Laing  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Start every day with a smile and get it over with.

W.C. Fields  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Never teach a pig to sing!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 11 months ago

Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)  Famous Quote

added 12 months ago

Belief and seeing are both often wrong.

Robert McNamara  Famous Quote

added 12 months ago

Each person is born with one possession which outvalues all his others--his last breath.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.

Eckhart Tolle  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Healing of the physical without the change in the mental and spiritual aspects brings little real help to the individual in the end. How true, because the mind and the body imprint and imitate each other. What we think, we become. What we become, we think. It's an insidious process that can predispose us to illness or it can lead us to health.

Edgar Cayce  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

I have learned more about life, people and human problems and emotions, by sitting in the dark, than I could possibly have learned in any other way – and those who have taught me the most, are people dead to this world, but who are living in the next…

Leslie Flint  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Oliver Sacks  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must interact with dozens or hundreds of others, their total integration creating something like a vastly complicated orchestra with thousands of instruments, an orchestra that conducts itself, with an ever-changing score and repertoire.

Oliver Sacks  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The real hopeless victims of mental illness are to be found among those who appear to be most normal. . .they are normal only in relation to a profoundly abnormal society. Their perfect adjustment to that abnormal society is a measure of their mental sickness. These millions of abnormally normal people, living without fuss in a society to which, if they were fully human beings, they ought not to be adjusted.

Aldous Huxley  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Recent discoveries about the primeval cosmos oblige us to accept that the expanding universe has been set up in its motion with a cooperation of astonishing precision.

Paul Davies  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

No matter how far a mind is displaced from those things which it seeks, it will return to them as it must.

Uell Stanley Andersen  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

Wayne Dyer  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Curtis: That looks like it hurts.

Truth or Consequences, N.M.  Movie Quote

added 1 year ago

True science is distinctively the study of useless things. For the useful things will get studied without the aid of scientific men. To employ these rare minds on such work is like running a steam engine by burning diamonds.

C.S. Peirce  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

...You can take the man out of the woods, but you can't take the woods out of the man.

Gary Paulsen  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Human beings are on a journey of awareness, which has been momentarily interrupted by extraneous forces.

Carlos Castaneda  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

There are no unnatural or supernatural phenomena, only very large gaps in our knowledge of what is natural… We should strive to fill those gaps of ignorance.

Edgar Mitchell  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.

Søren Kierkegaard  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

Samuel Butler  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

For fear does things so like a witch, 'Tis hard t' unriddle which is which

Samuel Butler (1612-1680)  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Patrick Rothfuss  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

Wendell Berry  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.

Edgar Cayce  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

He who has got rid of the disease ‘Tomorrow’ has the possibility to attain what he is here for.

George Gurdjieff  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

If there are phenomena, the reality of which we cannot deny but which cannot be fitted into our accepted conceptual framework, then something is wrong with that framework and we must look for another.

George Gurdjieff  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Here we go round the prickly pear Prickly pear prickly pear Here we go round the prickly pear At five o'clock in the morning.

T.S. Eliot  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Oh lord Stanley, lord Stanley give me the brandy!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Once you abandon the idea of a personal baseline, it becomes possible to think of emotional suffering as relapse—instead of something to be expected from an individual’s way of being in the world.

Dorian Deshauer  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.

Cormac McCarthy  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Cormac McCarthy  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupation of men engaged in rash undertakings.

Cormac McCarthy  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.

Richard Feynman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

Mark Twain  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

Ralph W. Sockman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The definition of insanity is decreed far too often by individuals with no proof they themselves are sane.

Meaghan Buisson  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

We're all puppets, and our best hope for even partial liberation is to try to decipher the logic of the puppeteer. Just because natural selection created us doesn't mean we have to slavishly follow its peculiar agenda. (If anything, we might be tempted to spite it for all the ridiculous baggage it's saddled us with.)

Robert Wright  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

If you wish to upset the law that all crows are black, you mustn't seek to show that no crows are; it is enough if you prove one single crow to be white.

William James  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Carl Gustav Jung  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Henry S. Haskins  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

This is the first lesson ye should learn: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, it doesn't behoove any of us to speak evil of the rest of us. This is a universal law, and until one begins to make application of same, one may not go very far in spiritual or soul development.

Edgar Cayce  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.

Pliny the Elder  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.

Ambrose Bierce  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

Richard Feynman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Think of it: zillions and zillions of organisms running around, each under the hypnotic spell of a single truth, all these truths identical, and all logically incompatible with one another : 'My hereditary material is the most important material on earth; its survival justifies your frustration, pain, even death'. And you are one of those organisms, living your life in the thrall of a logical absurdity.

Robert Wright  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths; in feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives who thinks most--feels the noblest--acts the best.

Philip James Bailey  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Should Have Stayed at Bus Station: Withdrawing in disgust is not the same thing as apathy.

Slacker  Movie Quote

added 1 year ago

A definite purpose, like blinders on a horse, inevitably narrows its possessor's point of view.

Robert Frost  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Good evening everyone - you're in the right place at the right time - this is Coast to Coast AM blasting out of the Mojave Desert like a scirocco blazing across the land, slamming into your radio like a supercharged nanoparticle of unobtainium. Greetings from the boldest, bawdiest, most outrageous city in the world. The planetary capital of sun, fun, sin, sex, and secrets -- my not-so-humble hometown, Las Vegas Nevada. My name is George Knapp, your occasional host - designated driver of the airwaves and moderator of tonight's upcoming cacophonous cavalcade of conversation.

George Knapp  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Red: Get busy livin' or get busy dyin' - that's goddamn right.

The Shawshank Redemption  Movie Quote

added 1 year ago

OH, START FRYING THE JUMBO, HOMER. EXTRA CRISPY, PLEASE!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Keaton: Why don't you just shut up?

McManus: You're missing the point.

Keaton: No. You're missing the point. I don't want to hear anything from you. I don't care about your "job." And uh, I want nothing to do with any of you. I beg your pardon but you can all go to hell.

The Usual Suspects  Movie Quote

added 1 year ago

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, Love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Hold on to what you know you got - Hold on to what you been given lately, hold on 'cause the world will turn if you're ready or not.

KT Tunstall  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Well, my heart knows me better than I know myself so I'm gonna let it do all the talking.

KT Tunstall  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

George Carlin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

Dean Koontz  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Closing the door to change would mean shutting out life itself.

Ardis Whitman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

We must cherish our yesterdays, but never carry them as a burden into the future. Each generation must take nourishment from the other and give knowledge to the one that comes after.

Ardis Whitman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Life, like love, cannot thrive inside its own threshold but is renewed as it offers itself. Life grows as it is spent.

Ardis Whitman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Freedom is not in doing what you want to do, but in becoming what you want to be.

Ardis Whitman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

The more grievous the world, the more we need to remember the luminous beauty at the center of life.

Ardis Whitman  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing.

Duke Ellington  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry—or laugh.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

It's the witching hour, when losses become wins and wins become losses.

Scott Hanson  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

I just wanna see a silly seal sliding sideways in Sausalito!

Mike Lange  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

I don't pursue anything. The only thing I always answer is my own impulse.

Duke Ellington  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Seven hours of commercial-free football start now!

Scott Hanson  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Don't aim at success. The more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. Happiness must happen, and the same holds for success: you have to let it happen by not caring about it. I want you to listen to what your conscience commands you to do and go on to carry it out to the best of your knowledge. Then you will live to see that in the long-run—in the long-run, I say!—success will follow you precisely because you had forgotten to think about it.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

Dr. Viktor E Frankl  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

Benjamin Franklin  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.

Jodi Picoult  Famous Quote

added 1 year ago

Queer little twists go into the making of an individual. To supress them all and follow clock and calendar and creed until the individual is lost in the neutral grey of the host is to be less than true to our inheritance.... Life, that gorgeous quality of life, is not accomplished by following another man's rules. It is true we have the same hungers and same thirsts, but they are for different things and in different ways and in different seasons.... Lay down your own day, follow it to its noon, your own noon, or you will sit in an outer hall listening to the chimes but never reaching high enough to strike your own.

Angelo Patri  Famous Quote

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