310 quotes found
“There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it.”
“It's not much. You begin by thinking there is something extraordinary about it. But you'll find out, when you've been out in the world a while longer, unhappiness is the commonest thing there is.”
“A man can gasp out his life beside you-and you feel none of it. Pity, Sympathy, sure-but you don't feel the pain. Your belly is whole and that's what counts. A half-yard away someone's world is snu...”
“There are two more turds, smaller ones, and when he has eaten these, residual shit to lick out of her anus. He prays that she'll let him drop the cape over himself, to be allowed, in the silk-lined...”
“The world is mere change, and this life, opinion.”
“The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind.”
“I try not to let other people's problems problem me.”
“Seek not the favours of menFor man is fickleHis favours come at a priceAnd always changeChoose carefully your friendsFor a friend today could be a foe tomorrowFor such is the way of the worldTest y...”
“When what you hear and what you see don't match, trust your eyes.”
“Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your hearts desire the other is to get it. ”
“... the river is everywhere at once, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the rapids, in the sea, in the mountains, everywhere at once, and that there is only the pres...”
“Time passes: yesterday has gone for ever but tomorrow never comes. Let's make the most of today.”
“inside of a year, almost all of the stuff of which you were made got regularly switched out for other stuff, as you ate and drank and breathed, and yet if you said you had the same identity you did...”
“Most people live out ordinary lives by denying death. Others live more completely because theyre aware of it. I choose the second group.”
“Understanding of oneself is the first act in establishing a transformative philosophy for living a vivid and a reflective existence. Knowing thy self is essential to designing and instigating a mea...”
“nothing is wrong and nothing is right in this world, it's all about the matter of justification only.”
“Each person is chargeable with the essential task to make his or her thought processes as refined as possible. Every person must declare what important distinctions will allow him or her to live a ...”
“Passion trumps fear”
“Enjoy writers and entertainers but don't substitute their synthesis of truth and reality for your own. Seek your own counsel as much as you can. Dependence on any one or anything else will eventual...”
“Every Profound thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood”
