It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind.
Nite Owl II: But the country’s disintegrating. What’s happened to America? What’s happened to the American dream?
The Comedian: It came true. You’re lookin’ at it.
Before, I wanted to say: “I found love!” But now, I want to say: “I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him.
Your own Self-Realization is the greatest service you can render the world.
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to reassure myself that I got through yesterday, I’ll get through today.
Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and it has power,” Tuek said. “You might find the line between life and death among the Fremen to be too sharp and quick.
Four things to learn in life: To think clearly without hurry or confusion; To love everybody sincerely; To act in everything with the highest motives; To trust God unhesitatingly.
Although my memory’s fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
Art is the act of triggering deep memories of what it means to be fully human.
I am not worried, Harry,” said Dumbledore, his voice a little stronger despite the freezing water. “I am with you.
Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Toni’s Talk: When you invest in yourself, you have instant credibility with your biggest critic…you! As soon as you let doubt creep in—you lose that investment. Make a daily commitment to assess your worth with positive affirmations and watch your investment grow.
We are the music-makers,
And we are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers,
And sitting by desolate streams.
World-losers and world-forsakers,
Upon whom the pale moon gleams;
Yet we are the movers and shakers,
Of the world forever, it seems.
This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
All I have is all I need and all I need is all I have in this moment.
The sky is the limit… for some people aim higher nothing is impossible.
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.
If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.
Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
Pegang tanganku, tapi jangan terlalu erat, karena aku ingin seiring dan bukan digiring.(Spasi)
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.
Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is.
Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you’re gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.
Words can never fully say what we want them to say, for they fumble, stammer, and break the best porcelain. The best one can hope for is to find along the way someone to share the path, content to walk in silence, for the heart communes best when it does not try to speak.
No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.
Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy —the joy of being Salvador Dalí— and I ask myself in rapture: What wonderful things is this Salvador Dalí going to accomplish today?
You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,” said Aslan. “And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.
Nothing ever really goes away–it just changes into something else. Something beautiful.
Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It’s only after you’ve lost everything that you’re free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can.
The point of stories is not that they are objectively true, but that the soul of the story is truer than reality. Those who mock fiction do so because they fear the truth.
There is no evidence that we’ve been placed on this planet to be especially happy or especially normal. And in fact our unhappiness and our strangeness, our anxieties and compulsions, those least fashionable aspects of our personalities, are quite often what lead us to do rather interesting things.
You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.
I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, He will not ask, ‘How many good things have you done in your life?’ rather He will ask, ‘How much love did you put into what you did?
Do not fear the thorns in your path, for they draw only corrupt blood.
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favour.
Even in the far future,
never forget the you of right now
Wherever you are right now,
you’re just taking a break
You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.
Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.