310 quotes found
“I am I and my circumstance; and, if I do not save it, I do not save myself.”
“Dear little Swallow, said the Prince, you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery.”
“perception shapes priorities, priorities shape people”
“One person's greatest regret is another person's greatest memory.”
“As to the roaming of sages,They move in utter emptiness,Let their minds meander in the great nothingness;They run beyond conventionAnd go through where there is no gateway.They listen to the soundl...”
“After a breath and before another, there's plenty of time to rest.”
“Nothing will be resolved here. Nothing is ever resolved without war. It is the way of the universe.”
“Give us everything we ask for and suddenly it's too much.”
“Duty were our games.”
“I asked Elsie how much food they needed from outside the community. 'Flour and sugar,' she said, and then thought a bit. 'Sometimes we'll buy pretzels as a spl”
“Be noble minded! Our own heart, and not other men's opinions of us, forms our true honor.”
“Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.”
“Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.”
“Live how you live, feel how you feel and fuck all the phonies in your way.”
“It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth.”
“One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda”
“He who hesitates is lost.”
“A lot of people see doubt as legitimate philosophical posture. They think of themselves in the middle, whereas of course really, they're nowhere.”
“But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time.”
“In the eyeball there is a clash between creation and reflection. The two-way globes of sight are magical revolving doors where the creative spirit meets itself in the created spirit. The eye that s...”
