I’m not saying I’m gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world.
Let others lead small lives, but not you.. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you.. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.
Vanye: You’re asking me to kill you.Luthiel: I’m asking you to save her.
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!
Imagine being sentient but not alive. Seeing and even knowing, but not alive. Just looking out. Recognizing but not being alive. A person can die and still go on. Sometimes what looks out at you from a person’s eyes maybe died back in childhood.
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Life is a series of slamming doors. We make irrevocable decisions every day. A twelve-second delay, a slip of the tongue, and suddenly your life is on a new road.
The reason why the universe is eternal is that it does not live for itself; it gives life to others as it transforms.
You need to invest time in understanding and discovering yourself
Shine in any season of your life!Head on with confidence in your life’s pilgrim!In deep faith, countless hope and unconditional love blessed by the Almighty.Newness of each rising day, bringing forth colourful sunsets.Enkindle your soul once more with courage, joy and love,flowing in a river of awakening & sharing:with a heart who once knew that hurt, pain, loss…means to SHINE!
It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action.
A thing of beauty is a joy for ever:
Its loveliness increases; it will never
Pass into nothingness; but still will keep
A bower quiet for us, and a sleep
Full of sweet dreams, and health, and quiet breathing.
When his brain died, all of the memoriesheld in his gray matter, along with all of the knowledge he had acquired, would simply evaporatein a flood of chemical reactions.
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
It takes intelligence to recognize intelligence, or the lack of it.
Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
Death is so terribly final, while life is full of possibilities.
When one has come to explore the ‘ instant moment ‘ and one has chosen to savor the delights of life, which are hidden behind the curtain of haste and superficiality, then ‘ mental time ‘ is replacing ‘ sequential time ‘. So ‘ here ‘ and ‘ now ‘ are keeping hustle and impatience in check. ( Just for a moment )
Just when normal life felt almost possible – when the world held some kind of order, meaning, even loveliness (the prismatic spray of light through an icicle; the stillness of a sunrise), some small thing would go awry and the veil of optimism was torn away, the barren world revealed. They learned, somehow, to wait those times out. There was no cure, no answer, no reparation.
But I can sit here with my dwindling days and look at what I think is important in life. I have both the time – and the reason – to do that.
Time wasn’t passing so much as kneeling beside him in a torn tee-shirt disclosing the rodent-nosed tits of a man who disdains the care of his once-comely bod.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
The basic drive behind real philosophy is curiosity about the world, not interest in the writings of philosophers.
What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.And even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.
I look up to say something but he puts his finger to my lips and whispers, “Don’t talk. You’ll just spoil my fantasy of rescuing an innocent damsel in distress as soon as you open your mouth.
There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death.
The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind… At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
I feel as if I were a piece in a game of chess, when my opponent says of it: That piece cannot be moved.
In my opinion, we don’t devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.
I need the thing that happens when your brain shuts off and your heart turns on.
If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted.
Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh.
The moment you become miserly you are closed to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing. The moment you start clinging to things, you have missed the target–you have missed. Because things are not the target, you, your innermost being, is the target–not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you; not much money, but a rich you; not many things, but an open being, available to millions of things.
Nobody owns life, but anyone who can pick up a frying pan owns death.
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss….” He turned to me. “But every once in a while, you find someone who’s iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Only because a bird doesn’t swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.
To judge a thing that has substance and solid worth is quite easy, to comprehend it is much harder, and to blend judgement and comprehension in a definitive description is the hardest thing of all.
Smart phones and the social media industry is essentially a giant machine for persuading you to make the wrong choices about what to do with your attention, and therefore with your finite life, by getting you to care about things you didn’t want to care about. And you are in far too little control over your attention to decide, as by fiat, that you’re not going to succumb to its temptations.
No dumb bastard ever won a war by going out and dying for his country. He won it by making some other dumb bastard die for his country.
Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.
Life seemed to him to be a narrow cage, and her iron bars were many and dense, and there was only one way out.
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.
I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own – that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people’s Time, not his.
I love my fans, and I try to keep in touch with them as much as I can.
You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.
It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.
But what he hadn’t expected was that when everyone feared him and flattered him, Lan WangJi scolded him right in his face; when everyone spurned him and loathed him, Lan WangJi stood by his side.
If Christ taught us anything it is this — not to let our fear of death keep us from doing the good thing.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…
I just took [my cancer diagnosis] as bad luck, basically. It did strike me almost immediately, my atheist sort of thing kicked in and I thought ha, if I was a God-botherer, I’d be thinking, why me God? What have I done to deserve this? and I thought at least I’m free of that, at least I can simply treat it as bad luck and get on with it.
The afternoon my parents died, I was out shoplifting with Irene Klauson.
Time spent for temporary happiness like movie or outing or weekend on a beach is all synthetic; with shelf life of a day or two. Work for your bigger dreams that should last for whole life. Then movie and beach would seem more interesting, realising that you have done something.
Take me as godfather. The man asked, Who art thou? I am Death, and I make all equal. Then said the man, Thou art the right one, thou takest the rich as well as the poor, without distinction; thou shalt be godfather. Death answered, I will make thy child rich and famous, for he who has me for a friend can lack nothing.