Every single university student should study philosophy. You need to lead the examined life and question your beliefs. If you don’t learn critical thinking, then political debate degenerates into a contest of slogans.
Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principles.
His arms went round my waist. He had a big grin, full of teeth like stars. You saying you’re the jealous sort,Scar? I’m saying that some girls slap, but I have knives.
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.
Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
Here, start living moment to moment totally and intensely, joyfully and playfully — and you will see that nothing goes out of control; that your intelligence becomes sharper; that you become younger; that your love becomes deeper. And when you go out into the world, wherever you go, spread life, playfulness, joy, as far away as possible — to every nook and corner of the earth.
The things that stress me out haven’t changed.
But I don’t wanna lose anything.
So I thought that at least I would change.
I’m lucky…that I’m afraid of losing something.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
It takes courage to let down your armor, to welcome people to see you as you are. Sometimes I feel the same as you: I can’t risk having people behold me as I truly am. But there’s also a small voice in the back of my mind, a voice that tells me, “You will miss so much by being so guarded.
I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life’s work.
What I really like about law is that it’s not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
Choose to hustle now, to work hard now, to make all the sacrifice now. So that you can enjoy your tomorrow. Whatever it is that you suppose to do now. If you don’t do it now, it will affect you badly for the rest of your life.
And so the dentist says ‘Rinse.’ So you lean over, and you’re lookin’ at this miniature toilet bowl.
I’d been willing to kill for the people I loved for a very long time; now I had to start living for them.
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Adrian von Trotha was thinking, “Soldiers must obey their officers and I shall enforce that! As well, the enemy will not obtain any leniency from me!
To live is to be musical, starting with the blood dancing in your veins. Everything living has a rhythm. Do you feel your music?
Like time suspended,
a wound unmended–
you and I.
We had no ending,
no said goodbye;
For all my life,
I’ll wonder why.
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.
He’s around the twist,’ said Azalea. ‘Breaking all the windows? He’s mad.”Ah, no,’ said the King. ‘It’s only madness if you actually do it. If you want to break all the windows in the house and drown yourself in a bucket but don’t actually do it, well, that’s love.
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.
I had a dream about you. I was sitting on your couch, relating my succession of ideas on subconscious influence. I asked you what they meant, and you told me that free associations were a bad way to advance my political career.
If the path before you is clear, you’re probably on someone else’s.
Why all these paintings of you? Because I’m an artist, Emma. These pictures are my heart. And if my heart was a canvas, every square inch of it would be painted over with you.
I fell in love with teasing you in the second grade, when I first discovered that I could turn you cheeks pink with just a word. Then I fell in love with you.
‘Climb Every Mountain’ is a beautiful statement of philosophy. Critics may think ‘The Sound of Music’ is saccharine, but I think it’s profound. The message, that we can’t accommodate evil, is just as important today.
Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.
Without knowledge of what I am and why I am here, it is impossible to live, and since I cannot know that, I cannot live either. In an infinity of time, in an infinity of matter, and an infinity of space a bubble-organism emerges while will exist for a little time and then burst, and that bubble am I.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
To make one person the center of your world is bound to end in disaster. There are too many factors outside your control.
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.
I wish I had a boyfriend. I wish he lived in the wardrobe on a coat hanger. Whenever I wanted, I could get him out and he’d look at me the way boys do in films, as if I’m beautiful.
Peter to Austin:Hard-ons don’t make you think less. They make you think stupid. Which makes me think you must have one 24/7.
Look. Survey. Inspect. My hair is ruined! I look like a pan of bacon and eggs!
Entertainment is there to improve people’s quality of life. After your basic needs, there’s entertainment.
Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Falling in love in a Christian way is to say,’I am excited about your future and I want to be part of getting you there. I’m signing up for the journey with you. Would you sign up for the journey to my true self with me? It’s going to be hard but I want to get there.
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come without leaving happier.
A piece of art comes to life, when we can feel, it is breathing, when it talks to us and starts raising questions. It may dispel biased perceptions; make us recognize ignored fragments and remember forsaken episodes of our life story. Art may sometimes even be nasty and disturbing, if we don’t want to consent to its philosophy or concept, but it might, in the end, perhaps reconcile us with ourselves. (When is Art?)
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don’t throw it away.
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
It’s not like there’s a law against flying.Yes there is. The law of gravity.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
I like to play cards. I’m not very good, because I don’t want to calculate, I just play by instinct. But I’ve learned a lot of business philosophy by playing poker.
Many things are mechanical and should remain mechanical. But mechanical thoughts, mechanical feelings—that is what has to be studied and can and should be changed. Mechanical thinking is not worth a penny. You can think about many things mechanically, but you will get nothing from it.