I’ve been thinking lately, maybe we do get new performances of the same day, opportunities to be more accepting and loving. Maybe practice, rehearsal, is also the way to freedom. We can start over. Time can loop back on itself, and here I am again with you, Margaret, trying.
If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?
My proceeds from the PayPal acquisition were $180 million. I put $100 million in SpaceX, $70m in Tesla, and $10m in Solar City. I had to borrow money for rent.
I requested more staff to help me troubleshoot the dangerous Desoto Solar Farm, but I was a lone worker for the duration of my time there.
Witness also that when we talk about literature, we do so in the present tense. When we speak of the dead, we are not so kind.
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of making everyone look and feel like shit.
I’m going to talk to her.And how’s that going to go? You’re just going to walk up to her and say, ‘Hey, I know you’ve never seen me before, but I’m your dad. Oh, and guess what? You’ve won the evolutionary lottery: You’re a vampire. Let’s go to Disneyland!
Sure, I could tell you I am no longer a lesbian or that I am no longer attracted to women and am straight, or I could even tell you the moon is made of cheese. I could tell you many things, but the moon will still not be made of cheese, and I will still not be attracted to men.
.. when all this started, I asked myself, ‘Am I going to withdraw from the world, like most people do, or am I going to live?’ I decided I’m going to live – or at least try to live – the way I want, with dignity, with courage, with humour, with composure.
The thing about butterflies, Mr. Crow, is that they need to be admired from afar.
It’s quite simple. Death isn’t what we think it is. It isn’t life which ends but time which stops.
Death would hurt only for a moment, which was not so bad when one considered how much, and for how long, life hurt.
It is wrong to think that love comes from long companionship and persevering courtship. Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.
Till her appointed course be run;Till on the darkness faint her breathFlown to the silent void, and DeathSit crowned upon the ashen sun.(“The Testimony of the Suns”)
My kids are my No. 1 priority. They’re the light in my everyday life. The sunshine. The miracle. Those eyes. Those smiles. At the same time, I have an extended, amazing family that is my audience. All these people have been with me for such a long time. I have these two responsibilities.
Yeah, sometimes life really sucks,” she says. “But you know what I’m holding on for?”
I raise my eyebrows.
She raises hers, too, mimicking me.
“The moments that don’t suck,” she says. “The trick is to notice them when they come around.
Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs.
A poet might die at twenty-one, a revolutionary or a rock star at twenty four. But after that you assume everything’s going to be all right. you’ve made it past Dead Man’s Curve and you’re out of the tunnel, cruising straight for your destination down a six lane highway whether you want it or not.
There’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’stBut in his motion like an angel sings,Still quiring [making music] to the young-eyed cherubins; Such harmony is in immortal souls,But whilst this muddy vesture of decayDoth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
A brainy person does not abuse copyright; instead they respect it and uphold it.
Make time for your health today before your health robs you of time.
You’re still the one I run to, the one that I belong to. You’re still the one I want for life.
For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
Life doesn’t move through time; time moves through life.
By the time I left the electrical utility industry, I had seen levels of incompetence, illegal and dangerous activities that I could never have imagined to be possible!
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Your face, now confined to this tiny screen, radiates elegantly. Time, it seems, has been kind to you.
I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.
The scholars and poets of an earlier time can be read only with a dictionary to help.
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
To believe you are magnificent. And gradually to discover that you are not magnificent. Enough labor for one human life.
So long as we think of it objectively, time is Fate or Chance, the factor in our lives for which we are not responsible, and about which we can do nothing; but when we begin to think of it subjectively, we feel responsible for our time, and the notion of punctuality arises.
In the liquid amber within the ivory porcelain, the initiated may touch the sweet reticence of Confucius, the piquancy of Laotse, and the ethereal aroma of Sakyamuni himself.
Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
Thank you, Mr. Rochester, for your great kindness. I am strangely glad to get back again to you: and wherever you are is my home—my only home.
Death Row inmates are almost twice as expensive to house each year as other inmates. Death penalty trials are much costlier than trials where execution is not a potential punishment and consume more time from judges, public defenders, and other legal personnel.
No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace.
Sometimes life is a constant battle against the nostalgia of a time that can never be real again.
God created philosophy for all the intellects that got bored of hearing the same bible stories every Sunday.
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one.
Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Transitions are a time for reflection, and a time for looking forward.
Ah, pay no heed if your enemies laugh. They’ll not be able to once you lop off their heads.
Philosophy is a root of science. Science is a branch of a philosophical tree.
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing, a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
Now I’m not blaming anything on her—I take full responsibility for my own actions— but it was Annette’s betrayal that began my slow spin downward to insanity.
I’m saying that I’m a moody, insecure, narrow-minded, jealous, borderline homicidal bitch, and I want you to promise me that you’re okay with that, because it’s who I am, and you’re what I need.
Yes, Bastille. I keep trying to get killed because it’s inconvenient for you.