It is your responsibility to find fault with me, it is mine to hear you out. But don’t expect me to change.
I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
Leonard asks me if there’s anything I need to know before he dies, I think about it for a minute, turn to him, say what’s the meaning of life, Leonard? He laughs, says that’s an easy one, my son, it’s whatever you want it to be.
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way
To become vegetarian is to step towards the stream which leads to nirvana.
Being brave means that knowing when you fail, you won’t fail forever.
Life lived in the absence of the psychedelic experience that primordial shamanism is based on is life trivialized, life denied, life enslaved to the ego.
I had a dream about you last night. The champagne was non-alcoholic. You didn’t notice, and laughed at my jokes anyway.
It’s not always easy being her daughter.’
I think,’ she said, ‘sometimes it’s hard no matter whose daughter you are.
Life’s pain. You just have to get over as much of it as you can.
-Isabel Culpeper
It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.
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.
One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You’ll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can’t stay kids forever.”
– Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)
The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.
They’re animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?
I think, well, I’ve had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn’t fair. Everyone I’ve ever loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time… But I think, any God that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night… ‘Strewth, well, you’ve got to respect the old bastard, haven’t you?
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.
Suatu kali hidup melambungkanmu setinggi langit,kali lainnya hidup menghempaskanmu begitu keras ke bumi
But instead of spending our lives running towards our dreams, we are often running away from a fear of failure or a fear of criticism.
Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans.
You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.
Love doesn’t want people to stay ignorant and frightened. Love doesn’t value obedience over all else. Love doesn’t judge and find some lives–or loves–more valuable than others. Love doesn’t use people and throw them away. Love stays, and makes you stronger, even when the person you love is gone.
Now this might disturb you, but I find I’m OK by myself;
and I don’t need you or your benevolence to make sense.
Life is a train of moods like a string of beads; and as we pass through them they prove to be many colored lenses, which paint the world their own hue, and each shows us only what lies in its own focus.
A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back-you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.
The very stone one kicks with one’s boot will outlast Shakespeare.
Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.
The demon that you can swallow gives you its power, and the greater life’s pain, the greater life’s reply.
The world is terrible,” said Mark tonelessly. “And some are drawn down into it and drown there, and some rise above and carry others with them.
Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits.
I hate when people say ‘I see’. It doesn’t mean anything and I think it’s hostile. Whenever anyone tells me ‘I see’ I think they’re really saying ‘Fuck you’.
People say I make strange choices, but they’re not strange for me. My sickness is that I’m fascinated by human behavior, by what’s underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
But I’m not guilty,” said K. “there’s been a mistake. How is it even possible for someone to be guilty? We’re all human beings here, one like the other.” “That is true” said the priest “but that is how the guilty speak
Kalau hidup sekadar hidup, babi di hutan juga hidup.
Kalau bekerja sekadar bekerja, kera juga bekerja.
Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.
People are not lazy, they simply have impotent goals..that is..goals that do not inspire them.
We do not need to eat animals, wear animals, or use animals for entertainment purposes, and our only defense of these uses is our pleasure, amusement, and convenience.
It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.
You must learn to forgive a man when he’s in love. He’s always a nuisance.
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
There are no classes in life for beginners: right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult.
Well, sometimes I worry that my whole life will be based about what’s comfortable and easy. I’ll care too much about what makes me feel good to ever really reach for anything. And then I worry that even if I do, I won’t succeed.
Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by “opinions” when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking.
Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would destroy the very things they were meant to illuminate. Embryonic bonfires, each bearing a seed of destruction so potent it could tumble cities and dash kings to their knees.
It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.
Dogs are great. Bad dogs, if you can really call them that, are perhaps the greatest of them all.
Don’t you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
People who fit don’t seek. The seekers are those that don’t fit.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and angels.
The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy’s staying alive.