One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
If a man was around when Aunt Kathy came by, she would berate him and throw him out. I even saw her toss guys out at gunpoint. She’d threaten them and say, “I will shoot you until I can’t see you!” I remember thinking, “How is that possible? That’s a lot of damn shooting!”
I’m the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.
We’ve been doing this here since 1968, so we have been identified as an example of a free, democratic school, and many professors want to expose their students to our philosophy.
I’ve always felt like we’re all human beings and we’re all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we’re all capable of great acts of evil, and we’re all capable of great acts of good.
The door opened.We’re here, said Mrs. Rogers.Aunt Myra came in.Now! said Amelia Bedelia.Greetings, greetings, greetings,said the three children.What’s that about? said Mrs. Rogers.You said to greet Aunt Myra with Carols, said Amelia Bedelia.Here’s Carol Lee, Carol Green, and Carol Lake.What lovely Carols, said Aunt Myra.Thank you.
Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn’t suck.
Above all, if what you’ve done is stupid, but it works, it ain’t stupid.
As for monkeys, I would have five, and they would be named: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil, Do Pretty Much Whatever The Hell You Want, and Expensive Attorney.
I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
I’m calm, Rachel insisted. Every time I’m around you, some monsters attack us. What’s to be nervous about?Look, I said. I’m sorry about the band room. I hope they didn’t kick you our or anything.Nah. They asked me a lot of questions about you. I played dumb.Was it hard? Annabeth asked.
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It’s all a question of how I view my life.
After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna.
If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell
My tendency to make up stories and lie compulsively for the sake of my own amusement takes up a good portion of my day and provides me with a peace of mind not easily attainable in this economic climate.
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
Life is the tragedy,’ she said bitterly. ‘You know how they categorize Shakespeare’s plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it’s a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it’s a tragedy. So we’re all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn’t with a goddamn wedding.
Love is the most powerful force in the world. That love can do anything.
Never let yourself be diverted, either by what you wish to believe, or what you think could have beneficent social effects if it were believed; but look only and solely at what are the facts.
When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don’t.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.
Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.
But whatever
However
Whenever this ends I want you to know
That right now
I love you forever
If anyone gets arrogant about their religion, that’s when the religion isn’t effective anymore. Any decent religion or any decent philosophy is always about tolerance and individual freedom, not about harm.
My philosophy is, it’s always very rewarding when you can make an audience laugh. I don’t mind making fun of myself. I like self-deprecating comedy. But I’d like you to laugh with me occasionally, too.
The ‘Tron’ fans have a real passion. They know their stuff and what works and why it works. It is more than a movie: it is a philosophy.
If a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, I mean, are you going to ban cricket bats?
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.
There is only one real deprivation… and that is not to be able to give one’s gifts to those one loves most.
Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Atheism is not a philosophy; it is not even a view of the world; it is simply a refusal to deny the obvious. Unfortunately, we live in a world in which the obvious is overlooked as a matter of principle.
In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.
The time of the autumn floods came and the hundred streams poured into the Yellow River. … Then the Lord of the River was beside himself with Joy, believing that all the beauty in the world belonged to him alone.
This intriguing ‘somewhere else,’ where intelligence no longer matters and awareness melts away, commands us to cherish our remains of innocence — because of all the characteristics of human nature, the richest by far is passion for the perfectly useless.
Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis.
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That’s something worth achieving.
Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
And yes, I’ll admit, I am jealous. I’m jealous of every minute you spend with him, of every concerned expression you send his way, of every tear shed, of every glance, every touch, and every thought. I want to rip him to pieces and purge him from your mind and from your heart. But I can’t.
Actually that’s my secret — I can’t even talk about you to anybody because I don’t want any more people to know how wonderful you are.
Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers’ cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future – and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.
I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
She had lost herself in this old work, her personality dissolving into it, so that she had been set free. The immortality of the soul lies in its dissolution; this was the cryptic comment that so frustrated Olivier and which Julien had only ever grasped as evidence for the history of a particular school of thought. He had known all about its history, but Julia knew what it meant. He found the realization strangely reassuring.
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.