The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we’ve got 24 hours each.
My girlfriend is sad and quiet and keeps me up all night worrying about her.
When I’m lying in my bed I think about life and I think about death and neither one particularly appeals to me.
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
A little stupid is like a little forest fire. If you happen upon some stupid, please stomp it out before it spreads.
Sustainability is a part of our ‘rise’ philosophy. You cannot rise if you take more from the community than you put back.
The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.
…when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen – only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he’s in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he.
We sometimes feel time I suspect as a tree feels time…dirt and seasons simply lived with like reasons
Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.
A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.
You’ve got to learn to leave the table
When love’s no longer being served”.
Saving YouThe darkness takes him over, the sickness pulls him in; his eyes—a blown out candle, I wish to go with him.Sometimes I see a flicker— a light that shone from them; I hold him to me tightly, before he’s gone again.
Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life.
All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment…
He would find his Susie,inside his young son. Give that love to the living.
We young Filipinos are trying to make over a nation and must not halt in our march, but from time to time turn our gaze upon our elders. We shall wish to read in their countenances approval of our actions.
The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you’ll begin seeing them left and right soon.
To what do I owe the pleasure of your company? he said.I placed my hands flat on the table and leaned across it. Stay the hell away from him.Who? Oh, you mean the guy who’s gonna bite it soon? He’s not. He’s going to be fine.He reached a hand out and placed it over my own. I snatched my hand back. He shook his head at me and whispered, You can’t stop it.Watch me.
A few minutes later, my eyes began to feel a bit droopy, but I vaguely noticed that Anissa was whispering something.
Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‘I’ll buy a million dollars’ worth of love.’ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
If you know not how to die, never trouble yourself; Nature will in a moment fully and sufficiently instruct you; she will exactly do that business for you; take you no care for it.
I’m one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you’re doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough.
She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward.
I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
What is the ‘present’? We say that only the things of the present exist: the past no longer exists and the future doesn’t exist yet. But in physics there is nothing that corresponds to the notion of the ‘now’.
There’s a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
Being a big guy, you face certain challenges. Over time, though, women found excuses to find me attractive.
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
He loved me and I loved him, but the number in my head was telling me that he was going to die today. And the numbers had never been wrong.
It’s when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I’d assassinated, that I unravel inside.
There are some who, from obtuseness or lack of experience, turn away from such phenomena as from ‘folk-diseases,’ with contempt or pity born of the consciousness of their own “healthy- mindedness.’ But of course such poor wretches have no idea how corpselike and ghostly their so-called ‘healthy-mindedness’ looks when the glowing life of the Dionysian revelers roars past them.
What branch does not have its leaves and which twig will not have its flowers?
Hurt is a part of life. To be honest, I think hurt is a part of happiness, that our definition of happiness has gotten very narrow lately, very nervous, a little afraid of this brawling, fabulous, unpredictable world.
Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.
Crap.It’s all crap.Living is crap.Life has no meaning.None. Nowhere to be found.Crap.Why doesn’t anybody realize this?
It’s how I fill the time when nothing’s happening. Thinking too much, flirting with melancholy.
It is an ill wind that does not blow some good. For example, it is well to be born in a decadent age; for one may obtain a reputation for virtue at a bargain price.
There are moments when I wish I could roll back the clock and take all the sadness away, but I have the feeling that if I did, the joy would be gone as well.
If people can keep track of all the celebrity gossip, there’s no reason we can’t also assimilate the key concepts of economic philosophy.
The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we’re chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.
About here, she thought, dabbling her fingers in the water, a ship had sunk, and she muttered, dreamily half asleep, how we perished, each alone.
The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts.
We need to talk. All of us About what we’re going to do now.I was going to watch Project Runway.
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
My husband has the philosophy that if you can work a Nintendo control, you can chop an onion. So, we have our children in the kitchen. We sit down every night for dinner. We’re trying to give our kids a sense of what’s going into their bodies, and it’s also good for family time.
Nothing is permanent. The only thing any of us have in common is the inevitable.
L’arbre tombe feuille à feuille : si les hommes contemplaient chaque matin ce qu’ils ont perdu la veille, ils s’apercevraient bien de leur pauvreté.
Lost wealth may be replaced by industry, lost knowledge by study, lost health by temperance or medicine, but lost time is gone forever.
If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
There were times Ruma felt closer to her mother in death than she had in life, an intimacy born simply of thinking of her so often, of missing her. But she knew that this was an illusion, a mirage, and that the distance between them was now infinite, unyielding.
Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is’t thou say’st? Her voice was ever soft.
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
Richard Nixon is a no good, lying bastard. He can lie out of both sides of his mouth at the same time, and if he ever caught himself telling the truth, he’d lie just to keep his hand in.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
Unexpected clashes between past and present may arouse a surge of bewilderment, but ‘time’ can be a redeemer and heal mental wreckage. Time might prove to be a dependable ally and a reliable coach to find a new inspiring sequel for the future. (“Disruption”)
My formula for life is very simple: in the morning, wake up; at night, go to sleep. In between I try and occupy myself as best I can.