Back in the day I used to save cool quotes from anywhere in a doc. I dug it out & posted them. I can't be asked to find sources now because this is the culmination of several years of blatant collection & stealing. Got this idea from Twitter that I should post this online. Make some use of it. Might come handy to me itself. Have filtered out a few from the doc that I did not agree with.
1. Fools try to prove that they are right. Wise men try to find when they are wrong.
2. That writer is the greatest who says the least and suggests the most.
3. Follow the vague and intangible, it will become definite and tangible
4. Two standards, - one for yourself and one for your neighbor. The first should be fixed, the second flexible.
5. That man is greatest who quickens most the lives of other men.
6. The man who does not laugh at himself, despise himself, and worship himself, knows nothing about himself.
7. Catch thoughts 'on the fly', for there is no rebound.
8. To the careless, life is a drama; to the heartless, a comedy; to the thoughtful, a tragedy
9. Among crazy people, a sane man is thought a lunatic
10. Nothing so formidable as knowledge - except ignorance.
11. To separate the essential from the non-essential is the market of a superior mind
12. Take counsel on your fears, but don't be controlled by them.
13. A prophet is without honor the first time he makes a mistake.
14. All movements are in waves, - in politics, in business, in the atmosphere, in spirit. Rest with the descending wave; mount with the ascending wave.
15. The man who rides a high horse forgets how things look to people on foot.
16. Desire for superiority is universal. If a man be a knave, he wishes to be the greatest knave; if a fool, the biggest fool
17. Man rules man; ideas rule the world.
18. If you wait until you see clearly, you will never act; if you wait for a purse motive, you will never move.
19. Virtue is its own reward; so is vice.
20. Never explain. Let your life be the explanation.
21. Most men absorb the atmosphere they are in. A few create their own atmosphere.
22. We cannot be just and hold the scales ourselves
23. Tyranny is the vice of a brutal man; submission to it, the vice of a timid man.
24. Two kinds of wisdom, - to persist in things worth doing; to abandon things not worth doing.
24. To advise is to claim superiority and be resented, unless the superiority is admitted.
25. To know when to begin is easy; when to step, is difficult.
26. Most people lie to themselves. They lie to survive, to keep their social standing. They lie to feel comfortable when they're afraid. But eventually, lies will come back to destroy you. Because some lies are so big, that they can't be walked back from. You can tell yourself the world is not on fire, but eventually you're going to be consumed by the flames. The nuance of reality has long since been traded for preconceived ideology, and breaking through that shell is all but impossible.
27. To the ideologically focused, every slope is slippery. Every gray area is just another shade of black or white. And because of that lack of nuance, things that genuinely are the extremes of are treated with the same outrage as things that aren’t. And as more of our world’s complexity is dumbed down into partisan tweets, the worse things are becoming.
28. The more we cry wolf, the more emboldened wolves feel in joining our herd. When everyone’s screaming, it’s hard to listen to a calm voice. The problems we face as a society cannot be defined by left or right. Those are just fake categories we’ve invented for simplicity. politics are more complicated than two diametric poles. the real spectre we face is extremism. Extremism rises out of disorder. And for those living in anarchy, totalitarianism can be an attractive solution, right up until the moment it isn't. There’s more to life than being not dead. The base necessities can only take you so far.
29. The state is like a house, and the most important part of sustaining that house is a strong foundation. The four main pillars of the nation are health, shelter, food, and security. If all four are taken care of, people tend to be able to put up with any leader, in any system. But eventually, something needs to be built on top of that foundation, and that’s where things get complicated. The beauty of building a foundation is that everyone is able to imagine a different house on top. Concrete and pillars form a simple structure all their own, but they imply a complexity yet to come. A frame may be sturdy, but it feels incomplete. Once those walls start going up, it’s quickly apparent if the architect understood reality, because ideology alone can’t hold up a roof. Hope has a way of blinding us, and in that bubble of prosperity, it can be easy to overlook what’s being traded to make it happen. The long-term is often sacrificed before the whims of the short. It’s easy to trade democracy for a feeling of security, our environment for a feeling of growth, our education for prosperity, or our stability for a partisan victory. We humans are more than willing to harm ourselves so long as it means we can continue believing the house we imagined around that foundation might actually get built. But no matter the system, a society treated as a series of short-term solutions is bound to fail. The truth is non-partisan. When we refuse to repair the pillars of our society, our society falls. Objective truth has been cast aside for state propaganda and social media conspiracy theories. To avoid coming to terms with this reality, true believers have invented an elaborate scheme. None of it makes sense, but in a cult it doesn’t have to. Reality has no place in ideology. Extremism won’t just go away if we close our eyes. The house they built was once the most beautiful mansion on earth, and even as parts fall away, it’s easy to treat that old architecture as new. But the echoes are getting louder, and if we willingly blind ourselves to our current reality in an attempt to sustain increasingly partisan ideology, it’s only going to get worse. Nobody expects their system to collapse until it does. But when it does collapse, everyone loses. The canaries are all dead. We have to stop mining.
30. You spend your whole life looking for answers because you think the next answer will solve all your problems: make you a little less miserable, because when you run out of questions you don't just run out of answers... you run out hope.
31. A great life comes in pieces, assembly required
32. I'm not the enemy because you get offended
33. They dangle these things in front of you, they tell you got a chance — but I’m sorry, it’s a lie. Because they had already made up their minds and they knew what they were going to do before you even walked in the door. You made a mistake and they are never forgetting it — as far as they’re concerned your mistake is who you are. It’s all you are.
34. When you decide not to be afraid you can find friends in super unexpected places.
35. No man can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle.
36. Life doesn't give us purpose. We give life purpose.
37. I have no idea where I'm going to be tomorrow but I accept the fact that tomorrow will come and I'm going to rise to meet it."
38. The fate of your planet rests not in the hands of gods. It rests in the hands of mortals.
39. The future is worth it. All the pain. All the tears. The future is worth the fight.
40. Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love. It humbles my heart, for you are everywhere.
41. While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.
42. Tomorrow is one dream away
43. To achieve what others won't you must endure what others won't
44. When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
45. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
46. Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.
47. Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.
48. We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
49. Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
50. If we are to make reality endurable we must all nourish a fantasy or two
51. Nothing worth having ever came easy
52. You get what you get but you make what you make. It is simple but it ain't easy
53. Is that what you want, or is that what people expect of you
54. WHEN WE LOSE OUR PRINCIPLES, WE INVITE CHAOS
55. Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
56. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
57. Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma -- which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.
58. The worst kind of arrogance is arrogance from ignorance.
59. Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters,’ he said, ‘cannot be trusted with important matters.’
60. You should never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it
61. Strong minds suffer without complaining; weak minds complain without suffering.
62. What is now proved was once only imagined.
63. Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
64. People will never forget how you made them feel.
65. What is offered for free is dangerous - it usually involves either a trick or a hidden obligation. What has worth is worth paying for. There is no cutting corners with excellence
66. When asking for help, appeal to people's self interest, never to their mercy or gratitude
67. As in friendship so in love, we are often happier from ignorance than from knowledge.
68. We try to make a virtue of vices we are loath to correct.
69. It is far easier to know men than to know man.
70. Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us.
71. The world oftener rewards the appearance of merit than merit itself.
72. Usually we only praise to be praised.
73. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
74. When one's head is gone one doesn't weep over one's hair!
75. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
76. There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.
77. It's easy to confuse 'what is' with 'what ought to be', especially when 'what is' has worked out in your favor.
78. Fate rarely calls upon us at a moment of our choosing.
79. A civilization is judged not by who it excludes,but by how it treats the excluded.
80. The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn’t matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark.
81. People don't get what they deserve. They just get what they get. There's nothing any of us can do about it.
82. Hope Springs Eternal
83. If the wonder's gone when the truth is known, there never was any wonder.
84. Don't climb a mountain with an intention that the World should see you, climb it with the intention to see the World.
85. You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.
86. Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known
87. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance
88. For most people, privilege is a poison
89. Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
90. Success is much harder to deal with than failure
91. I figured you were worth the extra effort.
92. A life without regrets would be no life at all
93. Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth
94. Tomorrow ain't promised to no one
95. Life’s barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you get good at.
96. You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from
97. It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live
98. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
99. There are right answers & there are wrong answers. Then there are impressive answers & unimpressive answers. It's an art knowing which answer is needed when. The truth doesn't always matter. It's what they want to hear
100. “Everyone is too obsessed with what everyone else thinks about them to think about anyone else!”
101. Future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid being alive today.”
102. “Life is pain, get used to it.”
103. Children grow up thinking the adult world is ordered, rational, fit for purpose. It’s crap. Becoming a man is realising that it’s all rotten. Realising how to celebrate that rottenness, that’s freedom.
104. Promise to build a chap a house, he won't believe you. Threaten to burn his place down, he'll do what you tell him. Fact of life.
105. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
106. Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.
Curiosity is not a sin…but we should exercise caution with our curiosity.
107. Differences of habit and language are nothing atall if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”
108. People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
109. The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.
110. It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
111. The jungle holds both beauty and terror in its depths, most terrible of which is man. We have met the enemy and have learned nothing more about him. I have, however, learned some things about myself.There are things men can do to one another that are sobering to the soul. It is one thing to reconcile these things with God, but another to square it with yourself.
112. The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways, but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness. We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often. We've learned how to make a living, but not a life. We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet a new neighbor. We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done larger things, but not better things. We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul. We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less. We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but we communicate less and less. These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway morality, one night stands, overweight bodies, and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill. It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share this insight, or to just hit delete...Remember, to spend some time with your loved ones, because they are not going to be around forever. Remember, say a kind word to someone wholooks up to you in awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side. Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't cost a cent. Remember, to say, "I love you" to your partner and your loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you. Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday that person might not be there again. Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to share the precious thoughts in your mind.
113. I got wrapped up in my own suffering and I forgot that some other people might be suffering, too.
114. Living is not for the week.
115. I'm giving up a lot so maybe I thought the universe owed me one
116. THERE ARE NO FIXED RULES EXCEPT THAT EVERYTHING ENDS. THE WORLD KEEPS SPINNING ITSELF AROUND THE SUN & THE SOLAR SYSTEM IS REVOLVING AROUND THE EVER DRIFTING GALAXY, ALL THE WHILE EVERYTHING IS CHANGING ITSELF, DRYING OUT & UNDERGOING A RADICAL NEW TRANSFORMATION. NOTHING WILL EVER REMAIN FIXED EXCEPT THE FACT THAT TIME IS GOING TO WITHER & WIPE OUT EVERYTHING. WE ARE HERE AT THIS MOMENT WATCHING OURSELVES DRIFTING IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PHASE OF THIS TIME & WASTING THIS LIFE FOR NOTHINGS.
117. To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead
118. Something happens at around 92 miles an hour - thunder-headers drown out all sound, engine vibrations travels at a heart's rate, field of vision funnels into the immediate and suddenly you're not on the road, you're in it. A part of it. Traffic, scenery, cops - just cardboard cutouts blowing over as you past. Sometimes I forget the rush of that. That's why I love these long runs. All your problems, all the noise, gone. Nothing else to worry about except what's right in front of you. Maybe that's the lesson for me today, to hold on to these simple moments. Appreciate them a little more - there's not many of them left. I don't ever want that for you. Finding things that make you happy shouldn't be so hard. I know you'll face pain, suffering, hard choices, but you can't let the weight of it choke the joy out of your life. No matter what, you have to find the things that love you. Run to them. There's an old saying, 'That what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger' I don't believe that. I think the things that try to kill you make you angry and sad. Strength comes from the good things - your family, your friends, the satisfaction of hard work. Those are the things that'll keep you whole. Those are the things to hold on to when you're broken.
119. It's hard not to hate. People. Things. Institutions. When they break your spirit and take pleasure in watching you bleed. Hate... is the only feeling that makes sense. But, I know what hate does to a man. It tears him apart. Turns him into something he's not. Something he'd promised himself he'd never become. That's what I need to tell you. To let you know how hard I'm trying not to cave under the weight of all the awful things I feel in my heart. Sometimes my life feels like a deadly balancing act. What I feel slamming up against what I should do. Impulsive reactions racing to solutions miles ahead of my brain. When I look at my day, I realize that most of it was spent cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life, I have no future. All I have is distraction. And remorse.
120. When you believe a lie for too long, the truth does not set you free. It tears you apart.
121. THERE'S A VERY FINE LINE BETWEEN NOT LISTENING & NOT CARING
122. Strife is good. Strife makes a man strong. For if a man is capable of confronting death daily, functioning in the face of it, there's no telling what else that man can do, and a man whose limits cannot be known is a very hard man to defeat in battle
123. Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses.
124. I have spent my whole life scared. Frightened of things that could happen, might happen, might not happen. Fifty years I spent like that. Finding myself awake at 3 in the morning. But you know what? Ever since my diagnosis, I sleep just fine. And I came to realize it's that fear that's the worst of it. That's the real enemy. So get up. Get out in the real world. And you kick that bastard as hard as you can right in the teeth.
125. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.
126. When you're a kid, they tell you it's all... grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that's it. But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It's so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.
127. Demons run when a good man goes to war, Night will fall and drown the sun When a good man goes to war, Friendship dies and true love lies, Night will fall and the dark will rise, When a good man goes to war, Demons run, but count the cost, The battle's won, but the child is lost
128. That true freedom requires sacrifice and pain. Most human beings only think they want freedom.In truth, they yearn for the bondage of social order, rigid laws, materialism. The only freedom man really wants is the freedom to be comfortable.
129. The older I get the more I realize that age doesn't bring wisdom -- it only brings weary.I'm not any smarter than i was 30 years ago. I've just grown too tired to juggle the lies and hide the fears.Self-awareness doesn't reveal my indiscretions ...exhaustion does.
130. Every day we change the world. But to change the world in a way that means anything that takes more time than most people have. it never happens all at once. Its slow. Its methodical. Its exhausting. We don't all have the stomach for it.
131. There's a saying -- 'The devil is at his strongest while we're looking the other way.' Like a program running in the background silently. While we're busy doing other shit. 'Daemons,' they call them. They perform action without user interaction. Monitoring, logging, notifications, primal urges, repressed memories, unconscious habits. They're always there, always active. You can try to be right, you can try to be good, you can try to make a difference. But it's all bullshit. 'Cause intentions are irrelevant. They don't drive us, daemons do
132. The universe is random. It's not inevitable. It's simple chaos
133. If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything
134. Someone who points out your flaws to you is not necessarily your enemy. Someone who speaks of your virtues is not necessarily your friend.
135. Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see the world as it is and not as it should be. Madness is always related with intelligence cause only mad people see the world as it is. There is a difference between the world as it is and the world we perceive. And therein lies madness.
136. The closer we get to the end of this journey, the more contradictions we’ll accumulate — confusing issues we once thought were clear. I suppose the good news is, that’s how we’ll know we’re finally getting somewhere interesting.
137. We are at our least rational...when we’re at our most vulnerable.
138. This is how they survive. You must know this. You're too smart not to know this. They paint the world full of shadows... and then tell their children to stay close to the light. Their light. Their reasons, their judgments. Because in the darkness, there be dragons. But it isn't true. We can prove that it isn't true. In the dark, there is discovery, there is possibility, there is freedom in the dark once someone has illuminated it. And who has been so close to doing it as we are right now?
139. It is natural for men new to power to assume that it has no limits. Trust me. It does
140. Madness is such a hard thing to define. Which makes it such an easy label to affix to one's enemies.
141. These men, who brought me here today, do not fear me. They brought me here today because they fear you and because they know that my voice, the voice that refuses to be enslaved, once lived in you. And may yet still. They brought me here today to show you death and use it to frighten you into ignoring that voice. But know this. We are many. They are a few. To face death is a choice.
142. You know who I am? What you cannot know, is where I come from, what I once was. If you knew that, I imagine you would've made different choices today.
143. It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
144. A story is true. A story is untrue. As time extends it matters less and less. The stories we want to be believe…those are the ones that survive, despite upheaval and transition, and progress. Those are the stories that shape history. And then what does it matter if it was true when it was born? It’s found truth in its maturity… Because what’s it all for if it goes unremembered? It’s the art that leaves the mark. But to leave it, it must transcend. It must speak for itself. It must be true.
145. The further one goes The less one knows.
146. A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
147. The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
148. The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
149. The man of wisdom is never of two minds
150. Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
151. He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
152. Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.
153. In life you have to do a lot of things you don't fucking want to do. Many times, that's what the fuck life is... one vile fucking task after another."
154. The world ends when you're dead. Until then, you got more punishment in store. Stand it like a man, and give some back.
155. You'll never know whether there's a better way of doing something unless you put it to the test.
156. SOMETIMES SETTING UP THE PROBLEMS CORRECTLY IS HARDER THAN SOLVING THEM
157. The way people treat you is their problem, how you react is yours.
158. You may not be able control all the things people say and do to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you detach from other people’s beliefs and behaviors.
159. Rarely do people do things because of you. They do things because of them.
160. The secret of happiness is freedom; and the secret of freedom is courage.
161. Tyrannies are born from love of wealth
162. The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be.
163. We must let go of the life we had planned to accept the one that is waiting for us
164. Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny
165. Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.
166. Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
167. Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeperit goes, simultaneously. The bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance.”
168. Let go of the wish for things to be different
169. Because when there is someone in a position of power or authority, someone you idealize, or even as in many co-dependent relationships – when there is someone you are afraid to lose – their insistence that their reality is the reality can often cause you to doubt what you know to be true.
170. Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.”
171. A deal will always wait, and a fool will always rush in.
172. You are gonna have to ask yourself how far you're willing to go to prove a point that doesn't mean a thing to anyone else
173. Ambition can be misread as impatience
174. Ordinary men avoid trouble. Extraordinary men turn it to their advantage.
175. Flip a coin, When it's in the air you will know what side you're hoping for
176. No one likes to (lose), but sooner or later we all need to learn how
177. All of man's troubles come from his inability to sit quietly in a room, by himself.
178. You will be judged by what you succeed at, boy, not by what you attempt.
179. “In the end,” warns the Commodore, “we do what we have the nerve for, or we disappear.”
180. Like sunlight, sunset, we appear, we disappear. We are so important to some, but we are just passing through.
181. You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting.
182. It's just, people have these romantic projections they put on everything. That's not based on any kind of reality.
183. The way ahead is dark for the moment. What seems to you a sacrifice is merely, to us, an oscillation. We do not fear the interval of darkness. We are a tapestry woven of Vortessence. It is the same for you if only you would see it. How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass? Could you but see the eyes inside your own, the minds in your mind, you would see how much we share. We are you, Freeman. And you are us.
184. Did you ever try to put a broken piece of glass back together? Even if the pieces fit, you can’t make it whole again the way it was. But if you’re clever, you can still use the pieces to make other useful things. Maybe even something wonderful, like a mosaic. Well, the world broke just like glass. And everyone’s trying to put it back together like it was, but it’ll never come together in the same way….
185. Tell me what you want to hear, I’ll whisper softly in your ear, All the things I’ll pledge to do, To prove to you my heart is true.
186. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
187. Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
188. True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.
189. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
190. The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation,sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.
191. Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
192. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing
193. 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.
194. Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
195. Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.
196. The gods are man's creation, to give answers that they are too afraid to give themselves.
197. Reality doesn't go away because you stop believing in it. It's stubborn like that.
198. In love you take leave of your senses but in hatred you must be present to calculate your actions.
199. With every choice lies the possibility of regret
200. I've always found the idea of death comforting. The thought that my life could end at any moment frees me to fully appreciate the beauty, and art, and horror of everything this world has to offer.
201. Words are living things. They have personality, point of view, agenda.
202. Perception’s a tool that’s pointed on both ends.
203. Therapy only works when we have a genuine desire to know ourselves as we are. Not as we would like to be.
204. If we learn our limitations too soon, we never learn our power.
205. No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his own rage.
206. If you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes back"
207. I don't fear god or demons or monsters. I fear man.
208. People don't get their own way because they often don't know themselves where that way leads.
209. The really important part of a rule is the exception to it.
210. A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
211. No matter how beautiful and well crafted a coffin might look, it will not make anyone wish for death.
212. He that beats the drum for the mad man to dance is no better than the mad man himself.
213. They worship everything and they value nothing.
214. The Elder are none the wiser
215. Even if you sleep late, eventually every day begins, and in the first minute of each day you have to face yourself. Day after day, until you die, you will wake up and remember what you’ve done. Memories of what you did the night before will bubble to the surface. Those memories will come with feelings. If you binged on ice cream or box wine or cocaine, that will be one of your first thoughts, and it will come with a weight of shame, maybe even self-hate. Those feelings may be subtle when you’re young and you think you have all the time in the world to turn things around. But unless you practice treating yourself well, soon you’ll be in your 50s and you’ll wake up and the pain of that first minute will be so intense that the day ahead will feel like a prison sentence.
“BUT!” I said, “If you practice treating yourself well, then in your first minutes you’ll remember that you met a goal. You’ll remember that you ate food that nourished you, and that you moved and played with the body you’re so lucky to have. Those positive memories will come with good feelings—with deep, meaningful pleasure. A sense of peace. Accomplishment. Rightness. “Practice living with intention and treating yourself well. Bother to care for and about yourself and your body, and your first minutes will feel like new beginnings. Ignore your body’s needs, neglect yourself, or continue to justify not treating yourself well, and your first minutes will be torture. “And here’s the thing: Your first minutes are unavoidable. Even if you graduate and get rich, you can’t ever outsource your first minute. You can’t hire someone to deal with it for you. Yes, you’re gonna die. We’re all gonna die. But until that hammer drops, you alone have to experience the first minute of every single day between now and then. We’re talking tens of thousands of times. Dying only happens once. Relative to those thousands of first minutes, dying is small potatoes. “I’ve spent years harming myself and years healing myself. I’ve had thousands of first minutes that were torture and thousands that were good, and I can tell you that nothing has more of an impact on how we feel about just being alive. Compared to how you feel in your first minutes, it doesn’t matter what degree you have or where you live or how many clubs you join. It doesn’t matter what you do for work or how much money you make. It doesn’t even matter what you weigh or how old you are.” “Not to say that stuff has no impact on how you feel about life. Obviously, it does. But unless you treat yourself well and feel well, then it doesn’t matter how much good stuff you’ve got going on, because it’ll all just feel like a fancy box that you live in and resent until you die.
216. The tough part is, uh... Not knowing if you're doing any good. That's the hard part.
217. In this world, a man, himself, is nothing. And there ain't no world but this one. There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this one, just this rock.
218. God is a ludicrous fiction, dreamt up by inadequates, who abnegate all responsibility to an invisible magic friend.
219. I know you’re all feeling the darkness here today. But there’s no reason to give in. No matter what you’ve heard, this process will not take years. In my heart, I know we cannot be defeated, because there is an answer that will open the door. There is a way around this system. This is a test of our patience and commitment. One great idea can win someone over.
220. One day i'll find the right words & they will be simple
221. I have been telling myself that we are captives of our own identities, living in prisons of our own creation. Even though we have one life, we do the same things again and again. We react in exactly the same conditioned way; we always fall in love with similar people; we always make the same mistakes! We are prisoners of our own characters
222. Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.
223. My mother always said, be careful what you wish for, because you'll get it, and then people get jealous and try to take it away from you."
224. I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean, I guess.
225. Where did you get that sweater? I want to make sure my daughter never buys it.
226. Nobody knows what I'm doing. It's good for mystique
227. I feel like I should make a speech: Get back to work.
228. I don’t know. I keep going places and ending up somewhere I’ve already been.
229. What are the events in life? It’s like you see a door. The first time you come to it, you say, Oh, what’s on the other side of the door? Then you open a few doors. Then you say, I think I want to go over that bridge this time, I’m tired of doors. Finally you go through one of these things, and you come out the other side, and you realize, that’s all there are, doors, and windows and bridges and gates and they all open the same way and they all close behind you. Look, life is supposed to be a path, and you go along and these things happen to you, and they’re supposed to change you, change your direction. But turns out that’s not true. Turns out the experiences are nothing, they’re just some pennies you pick up off the floor, you stick in your pocket, and you’re just going in a straight line to you know where.
230. In here though, you face your fear, you open that door and there’s a hundred more doors behind it. And the monsters that are hiding behind them are all real.
231. When I was young, I couldn’t sleep at night because I thought there was a monster in the closet. But my brother told me there wasn’t anything in the closet but fear. And fear wasn’t real. He said it wasn’t made of anything just…air. Not even that. He said you just have to face it. You just have to open that closet and the monster would disappear.
232. Without the leaps of imagination you miss the excitement of possibility
233. Realists don't fear the results of their study
234. A careless word may kindle strife, A cruel word may wreck a life, A bitter word may hate instill; A brutal word may smite and kill. A gracious word may smooth the way; A joyous word may light the day. A timely word may lessen stress; A loving word may heal and bless.
235. Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weaker minds.
236. A wise man once said it's fun to do the impossible
237. Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that which we most try to leave behind
238. Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
239. He who owes nothing fears nothing.
240. I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie, there is no system. The universe is indifferent.
241. Sometimes when people get what they want they realize how limited their goals were.
242. Pick a job and then become the person that does it.
243. People tell you who they are, but we ignore it because we want them to be who we want them to be
244. You want some respect? Go out and get it for yourself.
245. The truth is people may see things differently, but they don't really want to.
246. How naïve to believe that there might be a single answer to every question. Every mystery. That there exists a lone, divine light that rules over everything. They say it is a light that brings truth and love. I say it is a light that blinds us—and forces us to stumble about in ignorance. I long for the day when men will turn away from invisible monsters, and once more embrace a more rational view of the world. But these new religions are so convenient—and promise such terrible punishment should one reject them—I worry that fear shall keep us stuck to what is truly the greatest lie ever told .
247. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
248. "It is a good life we lead, brother." "The best. May it never change." "And may it never change us."
249. We are free to follow our own path. There are those who will take that freedom from us, and too many of you gladly give it. But it is our ability to choose – whatever you think is true – that makes us human... There is no book or teacher to give you the answers, to show you the path. Choose your own way! Do not follow me, or anyone else.
250. Nothing is true, everything is permitted. To say that nothing is true, is to realize that the foundations of society are fragile, and that we must be the shepherds of our own civilisation. To say that everything is permitted, is to understand that we are the architects of our actions, and that we must live with their consequences, whether glorious or tragic.
251. Only a mind free of impediment is capable of grasping the chaotic beauty of the world. This is our greatest asset.
252. People are quick to judge but slow to correct themselves.
253. It's all a matter of perspective. There is no single path through life that's right and fair and does no harm.
254. Life's hardest choices are the ones that force you to question your own moral code.
255. "What is a man but the sum of his memories, we are the stories we live, the tales we tell our selves"
256. I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing at the wind. For in much wisdom, is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge, increaseth sorrow.
257. We all change when you think about it we're all different people throughout our lives and that's okay that's good you have to keep moving as long as you remember, all the people that you used to be
258. What makes a man a man?A friend of mine once wondered. Is it his origins? The way he comes to life? I don't think so. It's the choices he makes. Not how he starts things, but how he decides to end them
259. Misery comes to all even though they might think their life is the only one which has it
260. There's still so many gaps in our life, so much missing, so much we'd like to have. I believe that filling those gaps, getting those new & exciting things is all what our life is about.
261. The wolf doesn't care about the number of sheep
262. "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."
263. “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
264. "Happy he is who learns to bear what he cannot change."
265. Well, one day you’re there and then all of a sudden there’s less ofyou. And you wonder where that part went, if it’s living somewhere outside of you, and you keep thinking maybe you’ll get it back. And then you realize, it’s just gone.
266. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws. And asks no omen but his country's cause.
267. "I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone."
268. "Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."
269. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom
270. "In time we hate that which we often fear."
271. "In the hour of adversity be not without hope, for crystal rain falls from black clouds."
272. I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.
273. He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know. Shut up, is what I'm saying.
274. "The only thing keeping you from being happy is the belief that you are alone
275. It's your life. You don't know how long it's going to be, but you know it's got a bad ending. You have to move forward. As soon as you figure out what that is.
276. "I'm like King Midas in reverse. Everything I touch turns to shit."
277. Some people are so far behind in the race that they actually believe they're leading
278. "The notion of You Only Live Once is Bullshit. You only die once, but you live every day, every hour, every second. And I am trying to make it count."
279. "Before you open any door, a world filled with possibilities sits right behind it. It isn't until you open it, they are realized."
280. The greatest freedom that I've gained is the fact that I no longer have to worry about what happens tomorrow, because I'm happy with what I've done today
281. I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me .And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
282. If you died, would anyone care? Would they really care? Maybe, they’d cry for a day. But, let’s be honest, no one would give a shit. They wouldn’t. The few people that would feel obligated to go to your funeral would probably be annoyed and leave as early as possible. That’s who you are.That’s what you are. You’re nothing to anyone. To everyone.
283. We attempt to hide our true selves. But it's what we conceal that's most dangerous
284. This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying and never remaining the same for a single millisecond. And there is so much, so much to see.”
285. “You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.”
286. We’re all stories, in the end. Just make it a good one, eh?
287. I’m Not Always Sorry I’m not always sorry but when I’m, I’m so, so sorry.
288. “The road to power is paved with hypocrisy, and casualties.”
289. There’s no one to turn to. Because who’s gonna believe the things you see out of the corner of your eye? No one. Except me.
290. "The gift of good liar is making people believe that you lack the talent of lying."
291. “Letting it get to you. You know what that’s called? Being alive. Best thing there is. Being alive right now is all that counts.”
292. Here I am Right Now “This is who I am, right here, right now, all right? All that counts is here and now, and this is me!”
293. “The universe is big. It’s vast and complicated and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles.”
294. Heaven without you would be no heaven at all.
295. Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. It’s not the time that matters, it’s the person.
296. A MAN DOES WHAT HE CAN UNTIL HIS DESTINY IS REVEALED
297. Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
298. It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices
299. "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got."
300. Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, 'I will try again tomorrow
301. Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
302. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply
303. Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm
304. Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes
305. Wanting something does not give you the right to have it
306. Never spend your money before you have earned it
307. The only disability in life is a bad attitude
308. Honesty is a very expensive gift. Don't expect it from cheap people
309. You're not my life but you're the one I want to spend it with. You're not my world but you're the best thing in it
310. The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose
311. The Creed of the Assassin Brotherhood teaches us that nothing is forbidden to us. Once, I thought that meant we were free to do as we would. To pursue our ideals, no matter the cost. I understand now. Not a grant of permission. The Creed is a warning. Ideals too easily give way to dogma. Dogma becomes fanaticism. No higher power sits in judgement of us. No supreme being watches to punish us for our sins. In the end, only we ourselves can guard against our obsessions. Only we can decide whether the road we walk carries too high a toll. We believe ourselves redeemers, avengers, saviors. We make war on those who oppose us, and they in turn make war on us. We dream of leaving our stamp upon the world... even as we give our lives in a conflict that will be recorded in no history book. All that we do, all that we are, begins and ends with ourselves.
312. No god caused this & No god is going to get you out
313. Deafened by the naive while we silence the wise
314. The fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself
315. "People are capable at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of."
316. "Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
317. "People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams because they feel that they don't deserve them, or that they'll be unable to achieve them."
318. "At a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what’s happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That’s the world’s greatest lie."
319. Without you all I have are broken dreams, Without you my mind is sinking beneath the seas, Without you I don't want to achieve any feats, Without you, All my life is like the broken lifeless trees
320. Keep your memories but don't live in the past
321. Faith is belief based on absence of data. It invites disaster
322. “Such a simple concept, yet so true: that which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
323. “I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
324. “The phoenix must burn to emerge.”
325. "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
326. "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
327. "An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
328. "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
329. "In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
330. "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
331. "We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now."
334. "The time is always right to do what's right."
335. "Only in the darkness can you see the stars."
336. “Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
337. "There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
338. “Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.”
339. ”Will this matter five years from now? If yes, then do something about the situation. If no, then let it go.”
340. “There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”
341. “Achievement without fulfillment is no achievement at all.”
342. 'Know what you know, and know what you don't know.'
343. 'A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood.'
344. Only the brave enjoy noble and glorious deaths
345. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
346. Life doesn't get easier or more forgiving; we get stronger and more resilient
347. Happiness is not the absence of problems; it's the ability to deal with them
348. My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded.
349. She is delightfully chaotic; a beautiful mess. Loving her is a splendid adventure.
350. You can connect a group of people one way and they’re kind, and cooperation spreads. But if you take the same group of people and connect them in a different way, they’re mean sons of bitches, and they’re cruel to each other.
351. “A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.”
352. As people age, they confuse changes in themselves with changes in the world, and changes in the world with moral decline—the illusion of the good old days
353. Give a man too much & he starts to take advantage of you
354. Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.
355. “Never be in a hurry. You’ll miss the best parts in life.”
356. “The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place, and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t how hard you get hit; it’s about how hard you get hit, and keep moving forward.”
357. “It’s the magic of risking everything for a dream that nobody sees but you.”
358. Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
359. People may teach what they know, but they reproduce what they are
360. Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worse kind of suffering.
361. ‘It must have been me that did it, it’s the kind of thing a ghost might do to prove to the living that he is still there.’
362. “How can something be so uplifting and so shattering at the same time?”
363. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
364. "It just feels like everyone wants something different, but no one wants to do anything different to get it."
365. When you're the only sane person, you look like the only insane person.
366. Inside every sane person there's a madman struggling to get out," said the shopkeeper. "That's what I've always thought. No one goes mad quicker than a totally sane person.
367. “The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”
368. Familiarity did not breed acceptance.
369. “Whatever I thought right seemed bad to others; whatever seemed wrong to me, others approved of. I ran into feuds wherever I found myself, I met disfavor wherever I went; if I longed for happiness, I only stirred up misery; so I had to be called “Woeful”: Woe is all I possess.”
370. Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always comes out of our own mind.
371. We all possess the raw material required to commit horrible acts. We just need the right or wrong combination of events to make the raw material combustible.
372. Our weaknesses sometimes serve us better than our strengths.
Sometimes society looks upon people as crazy. It may only mean that they are alienated from their own true natures.
373. 'The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.'
374. A single rose can be my garden, a single friend my world
375. I respect her enough not to treat her like some tender blossom who needs to be coddled.
376. Faith, that's another word for ignorance, isn't it? I never understood how people could be so proud of believing in something with no proof at all. Like that's an achievement.
377. If nobody hates you, you are doing something wrong
378. Do I get bonus points if I act like I care
379. People never change. They just become more of who they really are
380. Things change. Doesn't mean they get better
381. When we don't find the logical answer, we settle for a stupid one. Ritual is what happens when we run out of rational.
382. A child who won't grow up turns into a fool
383. It isn't easy but it doesn't have to be complicated
384. How come all my vices always breed relief
385. Work ethic beats everything
386. In the long run, everybody is wrong
387. We keep re-learning old lessons the hard way
388. Willpower is overrated, Purpose is underrated. Few understand
389. Show up every day
390. Suffer Beautifully. Stay in the game. The front line is everywhere.
391. Motivation is wanting to, Passion is having to
392. The truth is often avoided because it is ugly and unpleasant. Never appeal to truth and reality unless you are prepared for the anger that comes from disenchantment. Life is so harsh and distressing that people who can manufacture romance or conjure up fantasy are like oases in the desert: Everyone flocks to them. There is great power in tapping into the fantasies of the masses.
393. So far from being free
394. Of the past that's haunting me, The future I just can't touch, Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
395. If there is a meaning in life at all, then there must be a meaning in suffering. Suffering is an ineradicable part of life, even as fate and death. Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.
396. The way in which a man accepts his fate and all the suffering it entails, the way in which he takes up his cross, gives him ample opportunity—even under the most difficult circumstances—to add a deeper meaning to his life. It may remain brave, dignified and unselfish. Or in the bitter fight for self-preservation he may forget his human dignity and become no more than an animal. Here lies the chance for a man either to make use of or to forgo the opportunities of attaining the moral values that a difficult situation may afford him. And this decides whether he is worthy of his sufferings or not.
396. It isn’t that they cannot find the solution. It is that they cannot see the problem
397. I dream, therefore I exist
398. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
399. To be a scientist is to be naive. We are so focused on our search for the truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it. But it is always there whether we see it or not, whether we choose to or not. The truth doesn't care about our needs or wants, it doesn't care about our governments, our ideologies, our religions. It will lie in wait for all time. And this at last is the truth about Chernobyl. Where I once only cared about the cost of truth, I now only ask what is the cost of lies.
400. I've already trod on dangerous ground. We're on dangerous ground right now, because of our secrets and our lies. They are practically what define us. When the truth offends, we lie and lie until we can no longer remember it is even there, but it is still there. Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth. Sooner or later, that debt is paid. That is how an RBMK reactor code explodes. Lies.
401. Unfortunately the next day was not that vast, extraneous expanse of time to which I had feverishly looked forward. When it drew to a close, my laziness and my painful struggle to overcome certain internal obstacles had simply lasted twenty-four hours longer.
402. Never take it personally, even if it is
403. The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost
404. I crave infinity but thrive in limitation
405. Good men don't need rules
406. If you need the promise of paradise to be good, then you aren’t good - because if you were, being good would be reason and reward enough in itself to be so. Instead you required an additional incentive to act right, which reveals you for what you truly are - and that isn’t good. If you need to believe in karma to be a good person, you're not a good person. Because you only refrain from doing bad things because you believe it will stop bad things happening to you. You're not good because you want to be, but because you're scared. It's a cowardly system.
407. We have met the enemy & he is us
408. I like you more than I hate him
409. Good health is an invisible crown only the sick can see.
410. "You Need to Learn to Relax or the Stress Will F***ing Kill You Before the Thing That is Supposed to Kill You Gets the Chance"
411. "And one asks oneself where are one's dreams. And one shakes one's head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And again one asks oneself what has one done with one's years. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not?"
412. I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
413. Come back! Even as a shadow, even as a dream
414. "I long for you; really, utterly long for every bit of you."
415. Nothing would ever make me more frightened than the thought of hurting you
416. For suffering with you would be to suffer beautifully
417. Look at your wrist, see the blueish veins? The blood flowing through them contains hemoglobin, a protein that has four iron atoms incorporated into its structure. Iron is only naturally produced in one place, it can only be forged in the core of dying stars. Every time you look at your veins, remember that you are built from, and kept alive by, pieces of stardust.
418. But in some cases carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.
419. The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.
420. I used to think that it was my adversary, that I was trying to lift that which does not want to be lifted. I was wrong. When the Iron doesn’t want to come off the mat, it’s the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn’t teach you anything. That’s the way the Iron talks to you. It tells you that the material you work with is that which you will come to resemble. That which you work against will always work against you.
421. It wasn’t until my late twenties that I learned that by working out I had given myself a great gift. I learned that nothing good comes without work and a certain amount of pain. When I finish a set that leaves me shaking, I know more about myself. When something gets bad, I know it can’t be as bad as that workout.
422. I used to fight the pain, but recently this became clear to me: pain is not my enemy; it is my call to greatness.
423. Try to lift what you’re not prepared to and the Iron will teach you a little lesson in restraint and self-control.
424. I have never met a truly strong person who didn’t have self-respect. I think a lot of inwardly and outwardly directed contempt passes itself off as self-respect: the idea of raising yourself by stepping on someone’s shoulders instead of doing it yourself. When I see guys working out for cosmetic reasons, I see vanity exposing them in the worst way, as cartoon characters, billboards for imbalance and insecurity. Strength reveals itself through character. Muscle mass does not always equal strength. Strength is kindness and sensitivity. Strength is understanding that your power is both physical and emotional. That it comes from the body and the mind. And the heart.
425. The Iron is the best antidepressant I have ever found. There is no better way to fight weakness than with strength. Once the mind and body have been awakened to their true potential, it’s impossible to turn back.
The Iron never lies to you. You can walk outside and listen to all kinds of talk, get told that you’re a god or a total bastard. The Iron will always kick you the real deal. The Iron is the great reference point, the all-knowing perspective giver. Always there like a beacon in the pitch black. I have found the Iron to be my greatest friend. It never freaks out on me, never runs. Friends may come and go. But two hundred pounds is always two hundred pounds.
426. You have to understand most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
427. Tear everything up.
428. I have suffered the punishment of an attachment without enjoying its advantages
429. "The love I had for you would have drowned the oceans and swallowed the skies whole,"
430. We all have someone we never speak of. Someone who meant so much, that even hearing their name makes your soul tremble with memories and pain. Someone who makes your heart break a little more each time you accidentally think of the colour of their eyes.
431. "If you don't stick to what you care about - you'll be stuck with something you don't. Either way life demands commitment."
432. Nothing's lonelier than a party.
433. I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to be
434. In the midst of chaos, I found there was within me, an invincible calm.
435. For heaven without you would be no heaven at all
436. I was never really insane, except on occasions where my heart was touched.
437. “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
438. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making.
439. Look at your wrist, see the blueish veins? The blood flowing through them contains hemoglobin, a protein that has four iron atoms incorporated into its structure. Iron is only naturally produced in one place, it can only be forged in the core of dying stars. Every time you look at your veins, remember that you are built from, and kept alive by, pieces of stardust.
440. I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
441. Darling like rain to Earth I have fallen for you more than a million times
442. When a man can't find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
443. If you don't stick to what you care about - you'll be stuck with something you don't. Either way life demands commitment.
444. In English we say: 'I love you.' but in poetry we say: 'I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.
445. The more perfect a person is on the outside, the more demons they have on the inside.
446. Something in me wants more, I can’t rest.
447. If everything around you seems dark, look around. You may be the light.
448. Today I can't write about anything except my longing for you.
449. And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself because I could find no language to describe them in.
450. I saw that you were perfect, and so I loved you. Then I saw that you were not perfect, and I loved you even more.
451. My loneliness can't even be described: I've forgotten how to talk, and I surprise myself even if I accidentally say a loud word. For going on four weeks now I haven't heard my own voice.
452. In the midst of chaos, I found there was within me, an invincible calm.
453. I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to be
454. The entire point of life is to take chances on dreams that seem crazy to most but feel like destiny to you.
455. I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.
456. If I could have done it again, I’d have loved you better. But I could not have loved you more.
457. You still live in the silences between my thoughts.
458. What a strange life. An evening refuses to pass, yet the years are slipping by effortlessly.
459. Grief is really just love. It's all the love you want to give, but cannot. All that unspent love gathers up in the corners of your eyes, the lump in your throat, and in that hollow part of your chest. Grief is just love with no place to go.
460. Suddenly I wonder, where is the girl that I was last year? Two years ago? What would she think of me now?
461. I just miss you, in a quiet simple desperate human way.
462. It is the same rain that you loved that drowned you.
463. "There is no tragedy in having to start again, as long as you start again."
464. "Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again."
465. a major problem of social media is the most insane part of the opposing contingent in any debate are shown to you thereby inspiring your side to get madder and polarized, creating an emergent wedge a never ending pressure cooker that melts your brain
466. You don't know anyone at the party, so you don't want to go. You don’t like cottage cheese, so you haven’t eaten it in years. This is your choice, of course, but don’t kid yourself: it’s also the flinch. Your personality is not set in stone. You may think a morning coffee is the most enjoyable thing in the world, but it’s really just a habit. Thirty days without it, and you would be fine. You think you have a soul mate, but in fact you could have had any number of spouses. You would have evolved differently, but been just as happy. You can change what you want about yourself at any time. You see yourself as someone who can’t write or play an instrument, who gives in to temptation or makes bad decisions, but that’s really not you. It’s not ingrained. It’s not your personality. Your personality is something else, something deeper than these details on the surface, you can change any time you like. If it is useful to do so, you must abandon your identity and start again. Sometimes, it’s the only way.
467. "Whilst we can never separate ourselves from the game, wisdom can be gained from simply knowing that it’s there. In the years it’s taken me to undertake this research, I’ve found it knowledge to be a comfort... I believe we can all take consolation in the knowledge that nobody ever gets there, not the superstars, the presidents, the geniuses or the artists we gaze up at in envy and awe. That promised land is a mirage. It’s a myth. In our lowest moments, we should remind ourselves of the truth of this dream: that life is not a story, but a game with no end. This means it isn’t a final victory we should seek but simple, humble progress: the never-ending pleasure of moving in the right direction. Nobody wins the status game. They’re not supposed to. The meaning of life is not to win, it’s to play."
468. the cost of abundance is more people living in a level of unreality that used to destroy you. we can propagate pleasant falsehoods because we can afford them
469. rain is on the horizon with the promise of a storm but there is sugarcane in your mouth right now and the field's flowers are gently swaying... the beauty of it all and the harsh reality are not bitter enemies. they are friends interweaving to the point that you cannot parse through the difference. such is life.
470. Evil is real. Not everything is 'mental illness' or bad upbringing.
471. Among the Poor there is also a strong class hierarchy, and they are absolutely nasty to each other
472. "But supposing the world has become 'filled up', so to speak, with liberal democracies, such as there exist no tyranny and oppression worthy of the name against which to struggle? Experience suggests that if men cannot struggle on behalf of a just cause because that just cause was victorious in an earlier generation, then they will struggle against that just cause. They will struggle for the sake of struggle, out of a certain boredom; for they cannot imagine living in a world without struggle. And if in the greater part of the world in which they live is characterized by peaceful and prosperous liberal democracy, then they will struggle against that peace and prosperity, and against democracy."
473. Some people are beyond redemption, the best you can do is forgive them
474. I don't have role models. I have anti role models. People I don't want to end up like: being a guy who complains about back pain all the time.
475. But just know, I'm the happiest I have ever been because of you.
476. The reason I made friends with the wind - with reality - is that I discovered I did not have a choice. I realized it is insane to oppose it. When I argue with reality I lose - but only 100% of the time. You can't change reality. The thing you can change is what you do with reality.
477. I want to be the first person you run to when life gets tough.
478. I’m sorry if I annoy you, I just love talking to you.
479. I'll never regret someone that I had an amazing time and experience with. Even if we fall off. You made my life special at a certain time. We grew together, even if we grew apart. Thank you.
480. The irony of pain is you want to be comforted by one who hurt you.
481. My existential angst was cured in 2014 in the San Francisco financial district on a walk with an exceptionally beautiful tall blonde coworker where I asked her if she was afraid to die and she told me she loves life and doesn’t think about it.
482. While everyone was busy capturing the fire crackers on NYE, I captured you. (My light in darkness)
483. Since you have been around I smile a lot more than I used to
484. If you remember me, then I don't care if everyone else forgets.
485. And then there are the songs I cannot listen to without hearing you
486. "I don't want to talk about it though, since I don't get anything out of it and nothing in the world can console me.
487. You know, we thank some people for merely living at the same time as we do. I thank you for the fact that I met you, that I will remember you for all my life.
488. I hope you do more in life than just survive, I hope you fall in love with being alive.
489. What are you afraid of losing when nothing in the world actually belongs to you?
490. A heart that always understands also gets tired.
491. The storms in my head ruined the garden that my soul holds
492. I am merely a sentence in your life yet I have filled libraries with thoughts of you.
493. Yeah, now, well, the thing about the old days, they the old days.
494. And sometimes, against all odds, against all logic, we hope.
495. I explained my hurt & still got hurt so I learned to stop talking
496. And how odd it is to be haunted by someone who is still alive?
497. Hope. They say it is a good thing. I find it funny. It is tragic. First you hope things go back to the way they were. Or for something better. With time, it morphs into a desperate plea. A pain you hold on to. A suffering you endure. You are falling into the abyss holding onto that hope. Deeper & deeper. Sadder & sadder. Hurting more & more. It’s depressing having hope. They also say never let go of hope. That hope springs eternal. But that hope is now holding you back. It is keeping you from moving on. The only way to free yourself is to let it go & die into the abyss. By falling hard without holding on. Be reborn.
498. And what's the use of talking, if you already know that others don't feel already know what you feel?
499. When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
500. Nobody apologized for how they treated me, they just blamed me for how I reacted.
501. "Look at you comforting others with the words you wish to hear."
502. Life is right now. While you’re waiting for your dream job, your future spouse, your goal weight, a new home, a change in appearance. Life is happening while you are working on mastering a skill, being in the unknown, not knowing which way to go, feeling stuck. Most of life happens in the waiting. Not in the achievements or successes which are nothing but milestones. Don’t wish the time you have away waiting for something that lives in the future. Look around. What does today offer that you might not want to miss?
503. Education makes the wise slightly wiser, but it makes the fool vastly more dangerous.
504. If your anger decreases with time, you did injustice; if it increases, you suffered injustice.
505. When we want to do something while unconsciously certain to fail, we seek advice so we can blame someone else for the failure.
506. You never win an argument until they attack your person.
507. Usually, what we call a “good listener” is someone with a skillfully polished indifference.
508. Most people fear being without audiovisual stimulation because they are too repetitive when they think and imagine things on their own.
509. You don’t become completely free by just avoiding to be a slave; you also need to avoid becoming a master.
510. People focus on role models; it is more effective to find antimodels—people you don’t want to resemble when you grow up.
511. The difference between magnificence and arrogance is in what one does when nobody is looking.
512. When people give you two reasons, consider the first the real one, except of course in time of shortages of customers, most of course.
513. To be a genius is not enough; you need some luck.
514. The enemy of a devil is not a saint but another devil.
515. More true your memories betray everything they know about you since you keep telling them a different story.
516. It is not what you don't know that makes you knowledgeable; it is what you know that you don't know.
517. The best way to know people is to find out what they lie about.
518. Life is like an Ayn Rand novel, except better written, less predictable, more charming, noble characters, with entrepreneurs, not bureaucrats, as heroes, and more randomness and uncertainty.
519. Resist trying to impose your entries.
520. Prosperity comes with the various disease called debt, obesity (and fundamentalism).
521. If you want people to like you, do not to give them advice. Instead, ask them for advice.
522. Nothing can be both boring and truly important.
523. Mediocre men tend to be outraged by small insults, but passive, subdued, and silent in front of very large ones
524. Everything before the "but" is meant to be ignored by the speaker; and everything after the "but" should be ignored by the listener.
525. If my enemies knew me better, they would hate me even more.
526. Don't complain too loud about wrongs done to you; you may give ideas to your less imaginative enemies.
527. To be a person of virtue you need to be boringly virtuous in every single small action. To be a person of honor all you need is to be honorable in a few important things.
528. "If you care about your reputation, you don't deserve to have one".
529. You make a discovery but someone points out it was made before. If you are an academic (or a career researcher) you feel upset; if you are free you feel flattered.
530. The problem isn't being on a steady salary. The problem is enjoying it.
531. You read biographies hoping to understand the mind of the subject, but, instead you end up understanding that of the biographer.
532. Some modern comforts & luxuries don't make you happier; they just make your life miserable when you don't have them.
533. It isn't what you know that makes you knowledgeable and rigorous; it is in the type of mistakes that you don't make.
534. People try to impress you with things they have done. You should be more impressed with the things they would never do.
535. Humans have always lived under the illusion that they can control markets, modify human nature, and get their spouse to change.
536. If someone finds fault with everything you say or do, ignore. There is only information from those who differ on the occasion.
537. Life is much, much easier when you treat all humans as flawed and defective, but each flawed in different ways.
538. Unlike clocks, vacuum cleaners, enema equipment and other human designs, a complex system is never finished, never has a "final" shape.
539. The fool considers that what he doesn't understand is either extremely stupid, or extremely intelligent, pending on how others react to it.
540. There is no more confusing, bewildering, and metaphysically dizzying sentiment than when you feel pity towards a disgusting individual
541. If you lost interest in a subject matter right after a final exam, you fooled the system and the system fooled you.
542. Drill into your head that no matter what you say, no matter what you do, no matter what you write, they will complain. They will complain even more if they see you trying to accommodate them. So work on directing what they complain about.
543. Finance is always straightforward before you lose money.
544. The phony tries to have prominent friends; the righteous will have prominent enemies.
545. “Independent” is what people will call you if your opinions don't upset anybody.
546. Every bubble in history is the iteration of the same bubble dressed in slightly different clothes, where those with no experience of bubbles claim that those with experience of past bubbles are old and have ... too much experience.
547. Success is if you don't derive a secret pleasure from other people's failure.
548. If assholes don't fine you arrogant, you are doing something wrong.
549. One thing worse than being blamed for wrong reason, being praised for the right reasons.
550. Wisdom is knowing what to worry about & what to ignore.
551. If you need others to know you are doing well, you are not doing well.
552. Sophisticated minds adopt simplified lifestyles; simplistic minds are drawn to overly sophisticated lifestyles. I've learned from Socrates is that the most tasty cuisine is whatever you eat when hungry: the more ravenous you are, the more succulent the meal.
553. Most risk-takers aren't risk takers; they’re just unsuspecting cowards.
554. A sign of development is the lack of prestige for government positions.
555. The more humans try to become demi-gods, the more they become full monsters.
556. One reason we think the past was more violent than reality is because historians have an incentive to discuss wars, not peace.
557. A trader is someone who knows how to lose money without getting used to it.
558. A just person takes less than he or she is entitled to.
559. In order to learn from a mistake, you must first be able to figure out if it really was a mistake.
560. Make your failings public; keep your virtues secret.
561. Those obsessing over inequality want the rich to become poorer rather than the poor getting richer.
562. If you only worry about things others worry about, I must worry about you.
563. Summarizing the principles in the Incerto: that something is knowable doesn't mean that you know it; that something is unknowable doesn't imply that you can't do anything about it.
564. When people give you two reasons consider the first one to be bogus.
565. Resist trying to impress your enemies.
566. The young instinctively disrespect those elderly they don't want to become when they, in turn, become old.
567. Don’t allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not.
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