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Beware the barrenness of a busy life. - Socrates

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust. - John Webster

And some day—the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. - John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath)

"Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success." - Swami Sivananda

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets through many a bad night. - Friedrich Nietzsche

May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. - Immanuel Kant

"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain." - Alan Watts

The result showed the wisdom of your orders. - John Bigelow

The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage. - Friedrich Nietzsche (from his book of titled 'Dithyrambs of Dionysus')

A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. - Jean Genet

I can't do nothin - George Lopez

The countenance is the portrait of the soul, and the eyes mark its intentions. - Marcus Tullius Cicero

“No evil ever came from a woman’s womb that wasn’t placed there first by a man.’... Tantie Neptune, Lucifer's Key by Charles A. Cornell ”

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. - Ernest Hemingway

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves. - Wally Lamb

“‘All conditioned things are impermanent’ — when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.” - Buddha

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. - Ernest Holmes

“Life is a constant process of dying.” -- Arthur Schopenhauer

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever. - Thomas Aquinas

The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out. - Jonas Salk

"Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object." - Ram Dass

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. - Brian Cox

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison (from his book: Invisible Man)

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure. - Stephen King (from his book "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from Different Seasons")

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other. - John Steinbeck (from his book "Of Mice And Men")

"Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy." - Beethoven

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone. - Poppy Z. Brite (from her novel 'Exquisite Corpse')

“Whatever living beings there may be — feeble or strong, long, stout, or of medium size, short, small, large, those seen or those unseen, those dwelling far or near, those who are born as well as those yet to be born — may all beings have happy minds.” -- The Buddha, Karaniya Metta Sutta

I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing. - Herman Melville (from his book "Moby Dick")

"The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong." -- Swami Vivekananda

Life is to be lived, not controlled; and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat. - Ralph Ellison (from his book: Invisible Man)

This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare (from Hamlet: Act 1, Scene 3)

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. - Andre Gide

"The holy land is everywhere." - Black Elk

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. - Henry Ford

Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them. - Robert Wilson Lynd

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.” - Seneca

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Why should I not hate mine enemies―if I "love" them does that not place me at their mercy?”
― Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Madman

Here by the labouring highway With empty hands I stroll: Sea-deep, till doomsday morning, Lie lost my heart and soul - A.E. Housman (from his book: A Shropshire Lad)

"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu

What a man does for pay is of little significance. What he is, as a sensitive instrument responsive to the world's beauty, is everything!-H.P. Lovecraft

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Go then, there are other worlds than these. - Stephen King (from his great novel 'The Gunslinger'

"Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain." - Joseph Campbell

There is just so much hurt, disappointment, and oppression one can take... The line between reason and madness grows thinner. - Rosa Parks

The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members. - Mahatma Gandhi

I am a woman who enjoys herself very much, sometimes I win, sometimes I lose..... mata hari

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. - Steve Goodier

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools. - Ernest Hemingway

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.”
― Lao Tzu

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger. - Buddha

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. - Elie Wiesel

It is the privilege of true genius, And especially genius who opens up a new path, To make great mistakes with impunity.

Lewis Carrol

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order. - Carl Jung

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
― Mark Twain

Truths and roses have thorns about them. - Henry David Thoreau

“Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.”
– Dalai Lama

Ego is the immediate dictate of human consciousness. - Max Planck

“There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”
― Elie Wiesel

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. - Helen Keller

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind. - Plato

Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. - Jean de la Bruyere

1. Life asked Death... 'Death, why do people love me and hate you?' Death responded 'Because you are a beautiful lie and i am the painful truth.'

2. The fear of suffering, is worse than the suffering itself.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company. - George Washington

“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.”
― Aristotle

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well. - Jack London

“Without music, life would be a mistake.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to think of them at all. - Blaise Pascal

“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
― Nicolas Chamfort

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. - Thomas Hobbes

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.”
― Benjamin Spock

Ideas pull the trigger, but instinct loads the gun. - Don Marquis

“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.”
― D.H. Lawrence

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. -Lewis C. S.

“Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.” ― Benjamin Spock

You were not there for the beginning. You will not be there for the end. Your knowledge of what is going on can only be superficial and relative - Naked Lunch (film)

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough. - Ted Chiang (The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate)

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another - William Shakespeare (Hamlet: Act 3, Scene 1)

“The unexamined life is not worth living” – Socrates

It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth – John Locke

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. - H. P. Lovecraft

Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore. - anonymous

She was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. - L.M. Montgomery (from her book 'Emily Climbs')

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

ALBERT EINSTEIN

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly. - Richard Bach

When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. - Haruki Murakami

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. - Herman Wouk

"The hurrider I go, the behinder I get.”

― Lewis Carroll

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. - Karl Marx

"Life is what happens to you while you are busy making other plans." ~ John Lennon

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. - George Bernard Shaw

“You're going to pay a price for every bloody thing you do and everything you don't do. You don't get to choose to not pay a price. You get to choose which poison you're going to take. That's it.”
― Jordan B. Peterson

You shall age like them, you shall die like them, and all memory of you shall fade in time. And we'll vanish along with it. You will never see us again. - quote from the film "Pan's Labyrinth

“humans have an evolved capacity to engage in self-deception in order to navigate through life in a delusional state of blissful ignorance.”
― Gad Saad

Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. - Albert Einstein

“If you’re decent to others, then you’re decent to yourself.”
― Michael Savage

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind. - Herman Wouk

I delight in offending people. I think the grievance brigade, victimhood, the idea that hurt feelings are some kind of special currency - I think that needs to come to an end. Milo Yiannopoulous

The quote you chose is beautiful LadyJigsaw. I didn't want to take away from your quote so I added one from Milo for shits and giggles. I know our views are drastically different but I love the quotes you put up here :)

thank you


Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are. - Gilbert K. Chesterton

Oh my. That made me laugh so hard I nearly pulled a muscle lol.


Political correctness never rears its ugly head independently. It always shows up as a series of actions designed, to this observer, to crush the souls of those blessed with common sense. Milo Yiannopoulos

:)

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. - Victor Hugo

Beautiful :)

My turn :D


“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
― Plato

Better is the enemy of good. - Voltaire

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world. Tommy Chong

It is well that war is so terrible, otherwise we should grow too fond of it. - Robert E. Lee

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. - H. L. Mencken

“Nothing in this world is difficult, but thinking makes it seem so. Where there is true will, there is always a way.”
― Wu Cheng'en,

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day; nor long for it.
-Marcus Aurelius

We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature. - Voltaire

“The biggest killer on the planet is stress and I still think the best medicine is and always has been cannabis.”

Willie Nelson

If there is no God, everything is permitted. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me. Ayn Rand

She had waited all her life for something, and it had killed her when it found her. - Zora Neale Hurston (from her book "Their Eyes Were Watching God")

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values. Ayn Rand

All I care about is free speech and free expression. I want people to be able to be, do and say anything.
Milo Yiannopoulos

Every thought is a battle. Every breath is a war, and I don’t think I’m winning anymore. - anonymous