I thought I was killing time, but it turned out that time was killing me.
It’s funny, I don’t feel any older than I did when I was twenty. But I know I am, because recently some twenty-year-old called me ‘sir.’ Sometimes the only way you know you are getting older is by the way others treat you.
Accepting death doesn’t mean you won’t be devastated when someone you love dies. It means you will be able to focus on your grief, unburdened by bigger existential questions like, Why do people die? and Why is this happening to me? Death isn’t happening to you. Death is happening to us all.
Lies 1: There is only the present and nothing to remember.Lies 2: Time is a straight line.Lies 3: The difference between the past and the future is that one has happened while the other has not.Lies 4: We can only be in one place at a time.Lies 5: Any proposition that contains the word ‘finite’ (the world, the universe, experience, ourselves…)Lies 6: Reality as something which can be agreed upon.Lies 7: Reality is truth.
True love is like ghosts, which everyone talks about and few have seen.
The spectacles of experience; through them you will see clearly a second time.
What is love? two souls and one flesh; friendship? two bodies and one soul.
It is never too late to ask yourself, ‘Am I ready to change the life I am living? Am I ready to change within?’ Even if a single day in your life is the same as the day before, it surely is a pity. At every moment and with each new breath, one should be renewed and renewed again. There is only one way to be born into a new life: to die before death.
The universe was exploding, each particle away from the next, hurtling us into dark and lonely space, eternally tearing us away from each other – child out of the womb, friend away from friend, moving from each other, each through his own pathway towards the goal-box of solitary death.
No, I really did. I walked into that room and saw the hottest, sexiest guy I’ve ever seen – wet and half naked. And I said, Ewww."I know. How am I still single, right?
I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.
You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and a deep understanding of what it means to be supported by your knowledge – not by some team that is there to create confidence; it is there within you. That takes time. That takes teachers. That takes taking risks.
Wir werden alt und grau. Wir werden eines Tages verschlissen sein und aus der Welt verschwinden. Mit unseren Träumen ist das anders. Sie können in anderen Menschen weiterleben, wenn es uns schon längst, längst nicht mehr gibt.
Many were the steps taken in doubt, that saw their shapeless ends in no time. Those who travail in faith today will truimph in joy tomorrow. Let faith lead the way.
You’ll have lived through heat waves by now, and you’ll know that they make time go utterly Dali clocks.
I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.
Person A understand Person B because the time is right for that to happen, not because Person B wants to be understood by Person A.
You smile upon your friend to-day,To-day his ills are over;You hearken to the lover’s say,And happy is the lover.’Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never:I shall have lived a little whileBefore I die for ever.
I just learned my lyrics and tried not to bump into the trumpet player. That was my philosophy.
The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra.
Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
For it can never be that war shall preserve life, and peace destroy it.
Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.
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.
Of all the ways I had imagined my death, getting beaten by my zombified mentor while trapped by a cannibalistic window handle wasn’t one of them
Time was a funny and fickle thing. Sometimes there was never enough of it, and other times it stretched out endlessly.
CALVIN:
When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I’ll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
Because no one needs to live for ever. I think that sometimes you can outstay your welcome.
All that’s bright must fade,–The brightest still the fleetest;All that’s sweet was madeBut to be lost when sweetest.
No matter what, I want to continue living with the awareness that I will die. Without that, I am not alive.
In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.
Some people say my work is often depressing and pessimistic, with the emphasis on death, blood, overcrowding, strange beings and so on, but I don’t really think it is.
Endings are not always bad. Most times they’re just beginnings in disguise.
People are unhappy when they get something too easily. You have to sweat–that’s the only moral they know.
I always say, if you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin to the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your lips.
Time spent in India has a extraordinary effect on one. It acts as a barrier that makes the rest of the world seem unreal.
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.
I am hopelessly in love with a memory. An echo from another time, another place.
He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.
I scream for everything that has gone wrong. I scream for everything broken in our lives.
How could I be sleeping with this particular man…. Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste.
Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction.
I think every girl’s dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
How do you measure the life of one person against the greater good? Can it ever be the right thing to sacrifice an innocent person? And how do you know what the greater good really is?
As we go through the flightiness of time, dazed by the inebriety of our mental time voyage, we must hit the brakes, sometimes, and not shy away from questioning ourselves, when we wade through the tanning mist of our memory that embroiders our thoughts or distorts them. (Uber alle Gipfeln ist Ruh )
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That’s probably why they get along so well.
I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEART OF MEN?The Death of Rats looked up from the feast of the potato. SQUEAK, he said.Death waved a hand dismissively. WELL, YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
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.