The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
To live greatly, we must develop the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and triumph with humility.
It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark.
Leef hard en goed en schoon en wild. Kijk goed, voel beter. Wees niet bang. Kies voor wat u blij maakt, wat het ook moge zijn. Durf proberen wat te lastig lijkt. Leg de lat hoog genoeg. Koester en laat u koesteren. Geef anderen wat ze verdienen, en uzelf minstens ook. Blijf hopen, willen, dromen, wensen.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
So we forgive each other?” The crooked smile climbs up one more time. “Again?”
And I look right into his eyes, right into him as far as I can see, because I want him to hear me, I want him to hear me with everything I mean and feel and say.
“Always,” I say to him. “Every time.
I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark
You can play it safe, and I wouldn’t blame you for it. You can continue as you’ve been doing, and you’ll survive, but is that what you want? Is that enough?
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.”
[Letter, November 1856]
No matter how strong you are, no matter how smart you are or tough you can be, the world will find a way to break you. And when it does, the only thing you can do is hold on.
Guilt reminds me of a stray cat. You chase it away and yet, it comes back when you least expect it. If you let yourself feel pity for it and feed the thing, it parks its ugly, puny, lonely-for-attention butt on your doormat and won’t go away. Scat kitty cat, scat. I don’t need you sitting around here like that.
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future.
We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.
We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one’s happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt.
I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else’s.
Life is half delicious yogurt, half crap, and your job is to keep the plastic spoon in the yogurt.
Until we can receive with an open heart, we are never really giving with an open heart.
Fame you’ll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don’t because sometimes they won’t..
I feel like a big faker because I’ve been putting my life back together, and nobody knows.
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.