One day

"One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life."

~ Kahlil Gibran

It is a harmful error

"It is a harmful error to assume we understand something
Simply because it agrees with what we already believe."

~Vernon Howard

We never know

We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan,
Our statures touch the skies.

~ Emily Dickinson

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You must learn

You must learn to be still in the midst of activity
and to be vibrantly alive in repose.

~ Indira Ghandi

Twinkle twinkle little bat

Twinkle, twinkle little bat
How I wonder what you're at!
Up above the world you fly,
Like a tea-tray in the sky.

~Lewis Carroll

Normal day

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are.
Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.

~ Mary Jean Irion

What we feel

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

~Aldous Huxley

Of one thing

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

~George Melton

In vain

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

~Bernard Le Bovier de Fontanelle

The human body

The human body is the only machine for which there are no spare parts.

~Hermann M. Biggs

Good for the body

Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul the work of the soul, and good for either the work of the other.

~Henry David Thoreau

Yet this is health

Yet this is health: To have a body functioning so perfectly that when its few simple needs are met it never calls attention to its own existence.

~Bertha Stuart Dyment

If the mind

If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The heart

The heart is not simply suspended in a body but in a culture, a place, a time.

~Mimi Guarneri

The soul

The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.

~Daniel Defoe

Our bodies

Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically,
if we are willing to listen.

~Shakti Gawain

There is

There is but one temple in the universe,
and that is the body of man.

~Novalis

A sound mind

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

~John Locke

The best

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.

~Robert C. Peale

I used to think

“I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.”

- Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

The aim of life

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”

– Henry Miller

If you do not

If you do not tell the truth about yourself
you cannot tell it about other people.

~ Virginia Woolf

Our deepest wishes

Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves.
We must learn to respect them.
We must learn to listen.

~ Sarah Ban Breathnach

The purpose of life

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience…"

– Eleanor Roosevelt

Yet mystery

"Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called Darkness... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding."

~Lao Tzu

If you knew

"If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?"

~ Robert Brault

There is one

There is one Holy Book, the sacred manuscript of nature, which truly enlightens all readers.

~Hazrat Inayat Khan

When you

When you do things from your soul,
you feel a river moving in you,
a joy.

— Rumi

I do not fear death

"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."

~ Mark Twain

A man

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way."

~ Mark Twain

The way of love

"The way of love is not a subtle argument. The door there is devastation. Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall, and falling, they're given wings."

- Rumi

Sit right there

"Sit right there -
don't do a thing, just rest.
For your seperation from God,
from Love
is the hardest work in this world."

~ Hafiz

The journey

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.”

– Lao Tzu

We do not remember

“We do not remember days…
We remember moments."

– Cesare Pavese

There is no history

“There is no history of mankind, there is only an indefinite number of histories of all kinds of aspects of human life.”

- Karl Popper

Who honors those we love

Who honors those we love for the very life we live? Who sends monsters to kill us and at the same time sings that we'll never die? Who teaches us what's real and how to laugh at lies? Who decides why we live and what we'll die to defend? Who chains us and who holds the key that can set us free? It's you. You have all the weapons you need. Now fight.

~Sweetpea, Sucker Punch

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You can deny

You can deny angels exist, Convince ourselves they can’t be real. But they show up anyway, at strange places and at strange times. They can speak through any character we can imagine. They’ll shout through demons if they have to. Daring us, challenging us to fight.

~Sweet Pea, Sucker Punch


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Everyone has an Angel

Everyone has an Angel. A Guardian who watches over us. We can’t know what form they’ll take One day, Old man, Next day, Little girl. But don’t let appearances fool you, They can be as fierce as any dragon. Yet they’re not here to fight our battles. But to whisper from our hearts. Reminding that it’s us. Its everyone of us who holds power over the world we create.

~Sweet Pea, Sucker Punch


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You are safe

You are safe.
It's all safe.

~Madam Gorski, Sucker Punch


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You are afraid

You are afraid.
Don’t be.
You have all the weapons you need.

~Madam Gorski, Sucker Punch


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You will need

You will need to find five items. The first is a map. Then fire. Then a knife. And a key. The fifth thing is a mystery. Begin your journey. It will set you free.

~Wise Man, Sucker Punch


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Don't write

Don’t write any checks with your mouths that your ass can’t cover…
And don’t wake the dragon.

~Wiseman, Sucker Punch


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Your mind

Your mind can set you free.
To reach your own paradise just let go.

~Wiseman, Sucker Punch


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Begin your journey

Begin your journey - If you dare.
It will set you free.

~Wise Man, Sucker Punch


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What you are imagining

What you are imagining right now?
That place can be as real as anything.

~Madam Gorski, Sucker Punch


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If you don't stand

If you don't stand for something,
you will fall for anything.

~Wise Man, Sucker Punch

Your fight for survival

Your fight for survival starts right now.
You don't want to be judged?
You won't be.

~Madam Gorski, Sucker Punch

I lost everyone

I lost everyone I loved.
And then they locked me away.
With no where to hide from the pain.

~Baby Doll, Sucker Punch

I am going to escape

I am going to escape from here.
I really don't have anything to lose.

~Baby Doll, Sucker Punch

For those who fight

For those who fight for it,
life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

~Wiseman, Sucker Punch

It will be

It will be a deep sacrifice,
and a perfect victory.

~Wiseman, Sucker Punch

To reach

To reach your own paradise.
Just let go.

~Madam Gorski, Sucker Punch


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You don't think

You don't think you are strong enough?
You are.

~Madame Gorski, Sucker Punch


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Americans are

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

~Alexis de Tocqueville

Well,

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

~George Carlin

Nothing

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Punk is

Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock.

~Kurt Cobain

Change

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

~Martin Luther King, Jr.

Freedom

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?

~Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

~Mohandas Gandhi

Freedom is

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.

~Ronald Reagan

Our greatest happiness

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

~Thomas Jefferson

I am involved

I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle.

~Marilyn Monroe

One of the rewards

One of the rewards of success is freedom, the ability to do whatever you like.

~Sting

An open society

An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

~George Soros

I chose America

I chose America as my home because I value freedom and democracy, civil liberties and an open society.

~George Soros

Freedom is

Freedom is the oxygen of the soul.

~Moshe Dayan

In America

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

~Peter Ustinov

The greatest blessing

The greatest blessing of our democracy is freedom. But in the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

~Bernard Baruch

In the last

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

~Bernard Baruch

To me, freedom

To me, freedom entitles you to do something,
not to not do something.

~Shel Silverstein

There's a hell of a lot

There's a hell of a lot of freedom in this rock and roll circus... it's where all the freaks go - it's the environment for me.

~Brian Molko

In 1960

In 1960, when I came out of prison as an ex-convict, I had more freedom under parolee supervision than there's available... in America right now.

~Merle Haggard

Only people

Only people who have been allowed to practice freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.

~E. M. Forster

A nation

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.

~Kemal Ataturk

You may be

You may be disappointed if you fail,
but you are doomed if you don't try.

~ Beverly Sills

Courage

Courage is like a muscle.
We strengthen it with use.

~ Ruth Gordon

Looks like

"Looks like what drives me crazy Don't have no effect on you- But I'm gonna keep on at it Till it drives you crazy, too."

- Langston Hughes

The bitterest tears

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

In a handful of ocean water

In a handful of ocean water
You could not count all the finely tuned
Musicians

Who are acting stoned
For very intelligent and sane reasons

And of course are becoming extremely sweet
And wild.

~Hafiz

Your daily life

Your daily life is your temple and your religion.
When you enter into it take with you your all.


~ KHALIL GIBRAN

We need

We need 4 hugs a day for survival.
We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance.
We need 12 hugs a day for growth.

~ Virginia Satir

If you are

If you are completely buried in an avalanche, dig a small hole around you and spit in it. The saliva will fall down, giving you an idea of which direction is up. Dig up.

- A survival tip from the "Worst Case Scenario" calendar

If a kid asks

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is "God is crying." And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is "Probably because of something you did."

-Jack Handey

Nobody

Nobody can get the truth out of me because even I don't know what it is. I keep myself in a constant state of utter confusion.

- Colonel Flagg

I've developed a new philosophy

I've developed a new philosophy...
only dread one day at a time.

- Charlie Brown

If you ever

If you ever crawl inside an old hollow log and go to sleep, and while you're in there some guys come and seal up both ends and then put it on a truck and take it to another city, boy, I don't know what to tell you.


- Jack Handey

Imagination

"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."

~Albert Einstein

We are

“We are an old people,
we are a new people,
we are the same people stronger than before.”

~ Pagan Chant

I do not like broccoli

I do not like broccoli.
And I haven't liked it
since I was a little kid
and my mother made me eat it.
And I'm President of the United States
and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.

~ George Bush

My mother loved children

"My mother loved children -
she would have given anything
if I had been one."

~ Groucho Marx

Mothers of teenagers

Mothers of teenagers know why animals eat their young.

- Author Unknown

The most remarkable thing

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found."

- Calvin Trillin

Mothers

"Mothers are all slightly insane."

- J.D. Salinger

I want my children

"I want my children to have all the things I couldn't afford. Then I want to move in with them."

- Phyllis Diller

My mother

"My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."

- Mark Twain

There are 3 ways

There are 3 ways to get something done. The first is to ask mom, and the other two I can't remember, so I'm going to ask mom...

~unknown

Mama

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.

~Zora Neale Hurston

The lullaby

The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.

~James Fenton

Oh the comfort

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.

~Dinah Craik

Insanity

Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

~Sam Levenson

It kills you

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.

~Barbara Kingsolver

Before I got married

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children, and no theories.

~John Wilmot

The moment

The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.

~Rajneesh

People

People with clenched fists can not shake hands.

~ Indira Gandhi

It is better

"It is better to be violent if there is violence in our hearts than to put on the cloak of non-violence to cover impotence."

~Mahatma Ghandi

A rock pile

“A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man
contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.”

- Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Moloch

Moloch who entered my soul early! Moloch in whom I am a consciousness without a body! Moloch who frightened me out of my natural ecstasy! Moloch whom I abandon! Wake up in Moloch! Light streaming out of the sky!

~Allen Ginsberg

I have

I have the
secret, I carry
Subversive Salami in My
ragged briefcase
Garlic, Poverty
a will to Heaven

~Allen Ginsberg

It has been said

"It has been said that time heals all wounds. I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but it is never gone."

~Rose Kennedy

When a good man

"When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him."

~Euripides

The ultimate choice

"The ultimate choice for a man, in as much as he is given to transcend himself, is to create or destroy, to love or to hate."

~Erich Fromm

I object

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent."

~Mahatma Gandhi

Murder is unique

"Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society must take the place of the victim, and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness."

~W.H. Auden

Evil is

"Evil is always unspectacular and always human. And shares our bed...and eats at our table."

~W.H. Auden

Who so sheddeth

"Who so sheddeth man's blood
by man shall his blood be shed."

~Genesis 9:6

Before

"Before you embark on a journey of revenge,
dig two graves."

~Confucius

There is no hunting

"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough, and liked it, never really care for anything else."

~Ernest Hemingway

There are certain clues

"There are certain clues at a crime scene which by their very nature do not lend themselves to being collected or examined. How's one collect love, rage, hatred, fear...? These are things that we're trained to look for."

~James Reese Gideon, Criminal Minds

Hunting

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.”

~Paul Rodriguez

Of all the animals

"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."

~Mark Twain

In order for the light

"In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present."

~Sir Francis Bacon

The healthy man

"The healthy man does not torture others. Generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."

~Carl Jung

There's no chance

“There's no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can circumvent or hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.”

~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Tomorrow

"Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a repetition of today."

~James T. Mccay

I discovered

I discovered, much to my surprise – and particularly if I was writing in the first person – that I could become a psychopath quite easily. I could think like one and I could devise a manner of unfortunate occurrences. So I probably gave up a flourishing, lucrative career as a mass murderer.

~Robert Bloch

I have

I have the heart of a small boy ...
and I keep it in a drawer at home.

~Robert Bloch

Don't bother

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

~William Faulkner

It is those

"It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us."

~Norman Maclean

The individual

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Other things

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

~Anthony Brandt

The pessimist

"The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails."

~John Maxwell

Unfortunately

"Unfortunately, a super-abundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares."

~Sir Peter Ustinov

When you look

"When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks into you."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

Hold on

"Hold on to what is good, even if it's a handful of earth.
Hold on to what you believe, even if it's a tree that stands by itself.
Hold on to what you must do, even if it's a long way from here.
Hold on to your life, even if it's easier to let go.
Hold on to my hand, even if someday I'll be gone away from you."

~ A Pueblo Indian Prayer

There came a time

There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

~ Anais Nin

Life is without meaning

"Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning."

- Joseph Campbell

Almost all absurdity

"Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble."

~Samuel Johnson

We Are Stardust

"In a sense, human flesh is made of stardust… Every atom in the human body, excluding only the primordial hydrogen atoms, was fashioned in stars that formed, grew old and exploded most violently before the Sun and the Earth came into being. The explosions scattered the heavy elements as a fine dust through space. By the time it made the Sun, the primordial gas of the Milky Way was sufficiently enriched with heavier elements for rocky planets like the Earth to form. And from the rocks atoms escaped for eventual incorporation in living things: carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur for all living tissue; calcium for bones and teeth; sodium and potassium for the workings of nerves and brains; the iron colouring blood red… and so on. No other conclusion of modern research testifies more clearly to mankind’s intimate connections with the universe at large and with the cosmic forces at work among the stars."

- Nigel Calder, "The Key to the Universe," BBC, 1977

I want

I want to learn how to purr. Abandon myself, have mistresses in maidenhair fern, own no tomorrow nor yesterday: a blank shimmering space forward and back. I want to think with my belly. I want to name all the stars animals flowers birds rocks in order to forget them, start over again. I want to wear the seasons, harlequin, become ancient and etched by weather. I want to be snow pulse, ruminating ungulate, pebble at the bottom of the abyss, candle burning darkness rather than flame. I want to peer at things shameless, observe the unfastening, that stripping of shape by dusk. I want to sit in the meadow a rotten stump pungent with slimemold, home for pupae and grubs, concentric rings collapsing into the passacaglia of time. I want to crawl inside someone and hibernate one entire night with no clocks to wake me, thighs fragrant loam. I want to melt. I want to swim naked with an otter. I want to turn inside out, exchange nuclei with the Sun. Toward the mythic kingdom of summer I want to make blind motion, using my ribs as a raft, following the spiders as they set sail on their tasseled shining silk. Sometimes even a single feather’s enough to fly."

-Robert Maclean

Tent tethered

Tent tethered among jack pine and blue-bells. Lacewings rise from rock incubators. Wild geese flying north. And I can’t remember who I’m supposed to be.

~Robert Maclean

Some stories

“Some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity…”

– Gilda Radner

It's hard

“It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.”

~Sally Kempton

The irrationality of a thing

"The irrationality of a thing is not an argument against its existence, rather, a condition of it."

~Friedrich Nietzsche

No man chooses evil

"No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks."

~Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Nothing is so common

"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable."

~William Shakespeare

Can't

Can’t is the cancer of happen.

~Charlie Sheen

We have a few rules

We have a few rules here. Nobody panics. There’s no judgment. You park your judgment at the door. Nobody dies. And — enjoy every moment. What did I miss? Drink chocolate milk. We just have fun. There’s a ton of laughter in this house. A ton of love in this house. There’s a ton of nobility in this house.

~Charlie Sheen

I earn

I earn two million an episode. I’m underpaid!

~Charlie Sheen

I just don't do it

“I just don’t do it. I will not believe that if I do something then I have to follow a certain path because it was written for normal people. People who aren’t special. People who don’t have tiger blood and Adonis DNA.”

~Charlie Sheen

I'm here

I’m here and I’m ready. They’re not. Bring it.

~Charlie Sheen

Did you say Cancun

"Did you say Cancun or caboose? I don't know, I was in a blackout, man."

~Charlie Sheen

I'm grandiose

"I'm grandiose. I have a grandiose life and I'm embracing it. ... It doesn't fit into their model and their model sucks."

~Charlie Sheen

You have the right

“You have the right to kill me, but you do not have the right to judge me. Boom. That’s the whole movie. That’s life”

~Charlie Sheen

If you borrowed

If you borrowed my brain for five seconds, you’d be like, ‘Dude! Can’t handle it, unplug this bastard!’ It fires in a way that’s maybe not from, uh… this terrestrial realm.

- Charlie Sheen

She's not there now

She’s not there now and we are and I don’t know, winning, anyone? Rhymes with winning? Anyone? Yeah, that would be us.

~Charlie Sheen

When I step

When I step between the lines it’s on, I’m there to show others how it’s done, it’s not really rocket science you know.

~Charlie Sheen

You could not

You could not make this shit up. Holy-Crap-Balls. Talk about your career suicide! At least he is doing it so publicly for our amusement.

~ Unknown

(Either it was Charlie Sheen or was it someone else referring to Charlie Sheen.)

I'm a winner

"I'm a winner and their lives look like they're - you know, ruled by losers."

~Charlie Sheen

I'm here

I’m here to collect. They’re going to lose.

- Charlie Sheen

I'm dealing with

“I’m dealing with fools and trolls. I’m dealing with soft targets, and it’s just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee … they lay down with their ugly wives and their ugly children and just look at their loser lives and then they look at me and say, ‘I can’t process it.’

~Charlie Sheen

You're either

"You're either in Sheen's corner or you're with the trolls."

~Charlie Sheen

Stay off the crack

"Stay off the crack.
Drink a chocolate milk."

~Charlie Sheen

We're definitely at war

"We're definitely at war. They're trying to destroy my family. I take great umbrage with that. Defeat is not an option. They picked a fight with a warlock."

~Charlie Sheen

I'm on a drug

I am on a drug. It’s called Charlie Sheen. It’s not available, because if you try it once, you will die and your children will weep over your exploded body. Too much?

~Charlie Sheen

Your face

Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

~Charlie Sheen

I'm tired of pretending

I’m tired of pretending I’m not special. I’m tired of pretending I’m not a total bitchin’ rock star from Mars.

~Charlie Sheen

I'm so tired

“I’m so tired of pretending like my life isn’t just perfect and just winning every second, and I’m not just perfect and bitchin’ and just delivering the goods at every frickin’ turn.”

~Charlie Sheen

These resentments

These resentments, they are the rocket fuel that lives in the tip of my sabre.

~Charlie Sheen

I'm extremely old-fashioned

I’m extremely old-fashioned, I’m a nobleman, I’m chivalrous.

~Charlie Sheen

Clearly, I have defeated

Clearly, I have defeated this earthworm with my words – imagine what I would have done with my fire-breathing fists.

~Charlie Sheen

You can't

You can’t process me with a normal brain.

~Charlie Sheen

Lead by example

"Lead by example and teach your kids right and wrong. If my right and wrong is a little bit different than anybody else, then my kids will be different too."

~Charlie Sheen

We are so accustomed

"We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others, that in the end, we become disguised to ourselves."

~François de la Rochefoucauld

Well

"Well, life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them."

~Charlie Sheen

Every plan

"Every plan I have is the best plan in the room."

~Charlie Sheen

The run I was on

The run I was on made Sinatra, Jagger, Richards, look like droopy-eyed, armless children. [...] I expose people to magic. I expose them to something they’re never going to see in their otherwise boring lives. And I gave that to them. I may forget about them tomorrow, but they’ll live with that memory for the rest of their lives, and that’s a gift, man.

~Charlie Sheen

I am grandiose

“I am grandiose because I live a grandiose life; what's wrong with that?”

~Charlie Sheen

I think

“I think people misinterpret my passion for anger.”

~Charlie Sheen

The basis of shame

"The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone."

~Milan Kundera

Political language

"Political language ... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."

~George Orwell

Those who make

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible
Will make violent revolution inevitable.

~John F. Kennedy

Whoever undertakes

"Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."

~Albert Einstein

Ideologies

"Ideologies separate us.
Dreams and anguish bring us together."

~Eugene Ionesco

Birds sing

"Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?"

~Rose Kennedy

Yesterday is ashes

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.

- Eskimo Saying

If

If your inner energy is misdirected, so will your whole life be.

~C. Astrid Weber

If we don't change

If we don't change, we don't grow.
If we don't grow, we are not really living.
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

~ Gail Sheehy

Don't forget

"Don't forget that I cannot see myself -- that my role is limited to being the one who looks in the mirror."

~Jacques Rigaut

Life is

"Life is either daring adventure or nothing at all."

~Helen Keller

There is

"There is no opponent."

~ Bruce Lee

Empty your mind

"Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water my friend."

~ Bruce Lee

Faith is

"Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish."

~ Bruce Lee

to experience oneself

To experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do."

~ Bruce Lee

To be

To be is to be related.
To isolate is death.

~Bruce Lee

Knowledge in martial arts

"Knowledge in martial arts actually means self-knowledge. A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing. The understanding of Jeet Kune Do is through personal feeling from movement to movement in the mirror of the relationship and not through a process of isolation. To be is to be related. To isolate is death. To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself. Now, it is very difficult to do. It has always been very easy for me to put on a show and be cocky, and be flooded with a cocky feeling and feel pretty cool and all that. I can make all kinds of phoney things. Blinded by it. Or I can show some really fancy movement. But to experience oneself honestly, not lying to oneself, and to express myself honestly, now that is very hard to do."

~ Bruce Lee

Forget about winning

"Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life. Do not be concerned with escaping safely - lay your life before him."

~ Bruce Lee

Learn the principle

"Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. LEARN, MASTER AND ACHIEVE!!!"

~ Bruce Lee

A fight

"A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard."

~ Bruce Lee

Either

Either you understand, or you don't. And that is that.

~Bruce Lee

Any technique

Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it.

~ Bruce Lee

Just be ready

"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly" and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."

~ Bruce Lee

A Good teacher

A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability (and) causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being.

~Bruce Lee

Do not be tense

"Do not be tense, just be ready, not thinking but not dreaming, not being set but being flexible. It is being "wholly" and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. The danger of training with the heavy bag is that it doesn't react to one’s attack and sometimes there is a tendency to thoughtlessness. One will punch the bag carelessly, and would be vulnerable in a real situation if this became a habit."

~ Bruce Lee

A good fight

"A good fight should be like a small play...but played seriously. When the opponent expands, l contract. When he contracts, l expand. And when there is an opportunity... l do not hit...it hits all by itself (shows his fist). Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."

~ Bruce Lee

I believe

"I believe in having a few pupils at one time as it requires a constant alert observation of each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher can never be fixed in a routine... each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting. A teacher must never impose this student to fit his favourite pattern; a good teacher functions as a pointer, exposing his student's vulnerability (and) causing him to explore both internally and finally integrating himself with his being. Martial art should not be passed out indiscriminately.

~ Bruce Lee

Let me give you

"Let me give you a bit of warning: just because you get very good at your training it should not go to your head that you are an expert. Remember, actual sparring is the ultimate, and the training is, only a means toward this. Besides running, one should also do exercises for the stomach - sit-ups, leg raises, etc. Too often one of those big-belly masters will tell you that his internal power has sunk to his stomach; he's not kidding, it is sunk and gone! To put it bluntly, he is nothing but fat and ugly."

~ Bruce Lee

Jeet Kune Do

"Jeet Kune Do is training and discipline towards the ultimate reality in combat."

~ Bruce Lee

Jeet Kune-Do

"Jeet Kune-Do is the only non-classical style of Chinese Kung Fu in existence today. It is simple in its execution, although not so simple to explain. Jeet means 'to stop, to stem, to intercept,' while Kune means 'fist' or 'style,' and Do means 'the way' or 'the ultimate reality.' In other words--'The Way of the Intercepting Fist.'"

~ Bruce Lee

If I tell you

"If I tell you I'm good, you would probably think I'm boasting. If I tell you I'm no good, you know I'm lying."

~Bruce Lee

The main characteristic

"The main characteristic Jeet Kune-Do is the absence of the usual classical passive blocking. Blocking is the least efficient. Jeet Kune-Do is offensive; it's alive and it's free."

~ Bruce Lee

I have not

"I have not invented a "new style," composite, modified or otherwise that is set within distinct form as apart from "this" method or "that" method. On the contrary, I hope to free my followers from clinging to styles, patterns, or molds. Remember that Jeet Kune Do is merely a name used, a mirror in which to see "ourselves". . . Jeet Kune Do is not an organized institution that one can be a member of. Either you understand or you don't, and that is that."

~ Bruce Lee

Colors pursue me

“Colors pursue me like a constant worry.
They even worry me in my sleep.”

~Claude Monet

Colour is

“Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

~Claude Monet

I'm colour-blind

“I'm colour-blind.
I can see colours dogs can't even hear!”

~Murray Tinkelman

The only color

"The only color I don't have is navy brown."

~Yogi Berra

I advise students

“I advise students on the subject of color as follows: 'If it looks good enough to eat, use it.'”

~Abe Ajay

I love

“I love to study the many things that grow below the corn stalks and bring them back to the studio to study the color. If one could only catch that true color of nature – the very thought of it drives me mad.”

~Andrew Wyeth

Painting is

"Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and ... one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity."

~Rainer Maria Rilke

If one says

"If one says 'Red' – the name of color – and there are fifty people listening, it can be expected that there will be fifty reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different."

~Josef Albers

He had

"He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals."

~Oscar Wilde

Color is

"Color is but a sensation and has no existence outside the nervous system of living beings."

~Nicholas Ogden Rood

Sometimes when

Sometimes when I'm having a colour moment I think to myself, okay what would be the most disgusting colour to add here? Sometimes that 'disgusting' can turn out to be 'surprising' and 'completely gorgeous'.

~Angela A'Court

How do you paint

“How do you paint yellow wheat against a yellow sky?
You paint it jet black.”

~Ben Shahn

My mother

“My mother warned me to avoid things coloured red.”

~Claes Oldenburg

Oh yes!

"Oh yes! He loved yellow, did good Vincent... When the two of us were together in Arles, both of us insane, and constantly at war over beautiful colors, I adored red; where could I find a perfect vermilion?"

~Paul Gauguin

Color which

"Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power…."

~Paul Gauguin

Each colour

"Each colour is applied to the canvas in relation to the colours next to it. The painting becomes a living thing and calls out for the colour it wants."

~Neil Patterson

You really

"You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

~Lucille Ball

I want

“I want to know one thing”

~Pablo Picasso

No pressure

"No pressure,
no diamonds."

~Mary Case

The farther backward

"The farther backward you can look,
the farther forward you will see."

~Winston Churchill

Ecstasy

"Ecstasy is what everyone craves — not love or sex, but a hot-blooded, soaring intensity, in which being alive is a joy and a thrill. That enravishment doesn’t give meaning to life, and yet without it life seems meaningless."

– Diane Ackerman

Try not

"Try not.
Do or do not."

~Yoda

This is what you shall do

“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body…”

– Walt Whitman

Try again

"Try again,
fail again.
Fail better."

~Samuel Beckett

Often

Often people attempt to live their lives backwards:
they try to have more things, or more money,
in order to do more of what they want so they will be happier.
The way it actually works is the reverse.
You must first be who you really are, then, do what you need to do,
in order to have what you want.

~ Margaret Young

All is a riddle

"All is a riddle,
and the key to a riddle...
is another riddle."

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Love is

Love is your safety. Fear does not exist. Identify with love, and you are safe. Identify with love, and you are home. Identify with love, and find your Self. Love is your power.

~A Course in Miracles

The belief

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

~Joseph Conrad

We find

“We find what we expect to find,
and we receive what we ask for.”

- Elbert Hubbard

The people

The people we are in relationship with
are always a mirror, reflecting our own beliefs,
and simultaneously we are mirrors, reflecting their beliefs.
So... relationship is one of the most powerful tools for growth....
If we look honestly at our relationships,
we can see so much about how we have created them.

~ Shakti Gawain

It is only

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly,
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

There are two ways

There are two ways of spreading light ...
To be the candle, or the mirror that reflects it.

~ Edith Wharton

People are like

People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed
only if there is a light from within.

~ Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

Your own words

Your own words are the bricks and mortar
of the dreams you want to realize.
Your words are the greatest power you have.
The words you choose and their use establish the life you experience.

~ Sonia Croquette

Never interrupt

Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.

~Napolean Bonaparte

I've learned

"I've learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it."

~ Unknown

Life shrinks

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

~ Anais Nin

Be like water

"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."

~ Bruce Lee

Remove those

Remove those 'I want you to like me' stickers from your forehead
and, instead, place them where they truly will do the most good -
on your mirror!

~ Susan Jeffers

Just don't give up

Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do.
Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong.

~ Ella Fitzgerald

Look at everything

Look at everything as though you were
seeing it either for the first or last time.
Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

~ Betty Smith

I'm not afraid

I'm not afraid of storms,
for I'm learning to sail my ship.

~ Louisa May Alcott

Cut not

Cut not the wings of your dreams,
for they are the heartbeat and the freedom of your soul.

~ Flavia

Once they've got you

"Once they've got you violent,
then they know how to handle you."

- John Lennon

The world

"The world is run by insane people for insane objectives."

- John Lennon

When we speak

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed.
But when we are silent, we are still afraid.
So it is better to speak.

~ Audre Lorde

The most common

The most common way people give up their power
is by thinking they don't have any.

~ Alice Walker

You take

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.

~ Erica Jong

If you look

If you look at what you have in life,
You'll always have more.
If you look at what you don't have in life,
You'll never have enough.

~ Oprah Winfrey

A woman is

A woman is the full circle.
Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform.

~ Diane Mariechild

The truth

"The truth will set you free.
But first, it will piss you off."

~ Gloria Steinem

The breath

"The breath of the flute player:
does it belong to the flute?"

– Rumi

It's not

It's not what you call me,
but what I answer to.

~ African proverb

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The best index

The best index to a person's character is
a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and
b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

~ Abigail Van Buren

So many gods

So many gods, so many creeds,
So many paths that wind and wind,
While just the art of being kind,
Is all this sad world needs.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Woman

Woman must not accept; she must challenge.
She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her;
she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.

~ Margaret Sanger

Just keep coming home

“Just keep coming home to yourself.
You are the one you’ve been waiting for.”

~ Byron Katie

You move

"You move totally away from reality when you believe that there is a legitimate reason to to suffer."

— Byron Katie

A census taker

" A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Have you seen

"Have you seen blood in the moonlight? It appears quite black."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Fly

"Fly, fly, fly, Clarice. Fly, fly, fly."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

I have no plans

"I've no plans to call on you, Clarice. The world is more interesting with you in it."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

And be grateful

"And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Rudeness

"Rudeness is an epidemic."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

You want the scent?

"You want the scent?
Smell yourself!"

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Save yourself

"Save yourself, kill them all!"

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

You will not persuade me

"You will not persuade me with appeals to my intellectual vanity."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

People will say

"People will say we're in love."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

I hate

"I hate rude people."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Given the chance

"Given the chance, you would deny me my life, wouldn't you?"

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

All good

"All good things to those who wait."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

He is

"He is rather twisted, you know."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

I imagine

"I imagine your little brother must smell almost as bad as you do by now."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

People don't

"People don't always tell you what they are thinking. They just see to it that you don't advance in life."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Okey-dokey

"Okey-dokey. Here we go."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Bowels

"Bowels in or bowels out?"

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

Remarkable boy

"Remarkable boy. I do admire your courage. I think I'll eat your heart."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

On a similar note

"On a similar note I must confess to you, I'm giving very serious thought... to eating your wife."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

As your mother tells you

"As your mother tells you, and my mother certainly told me, it is important, she always used to say, always to try new things."

~Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs

If you seek

If you seek to aid everyone that suffers in the galaxy, you will only weaken yourself … and weaken them. It is the internal struggles, when fought and won on their own, that yield the strongest rewards… If you care for others, then dispense with pity and sacrifice and recognize the value in letting them fight their own battles."

―Darth Traya, Star Wars

The Subject Tonight is Love

The subject tonight is Love
And for tomorrow night as well,
As a matter of fact
I know of no better topic
For us to discuss
Until we all
Die!

~Hafiz

I still think

"I still think All You Need is Love,
but I don't think that just saying it is gonna do it."

- John Lennon

The Truth

The Truth will set you free, but first it will knock the wind out of you.

~Unknown

Only as a warrior

“Only as a warrior can one survive the path of knowledge,” don Juan said. “Because the art of a warrior is to balance the terror of being a man with the wonder of being a man.”

- Carlos Castaneda, Journey to Ixtlan

I send you

I send you out as sheep in the midst of wolves; so be wise as serpents and gentle as doves.

~Mt. 10:16

Willing is not enough

Willing is not enough;
we must do.
Knowing is not enough;
we must apply.

~Bruce Lee

Rise like Lions

'Rise like Lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number -
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many - they are few.'

-Percy Bysshe Shelley

He who learns

He who learns must suffer
And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget
Falls drop by drop upon the heart,
And in our own despair, against our will,
Comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

~Agamemnon, Aeschylus

Life is easier

"Life is easier than you'd think; all that is necessary is to accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, and bear the intolerable." ~
~Kathleen Norris

To accept opinions

"To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think."

- C. Wright Mills

Here is the test

"Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't."

~ Richard Bach

The name of the game

“The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish you had.”

-Grace Mirabella

El Tornillo

El Tornillo walks the streets of Melo. People in town think he's crazy. He carries a mirror in his hand and he looks at himself with furrowed brow. He doesn't take his eyes off the mirror. "What are you doing, Tornillo?" "I'm here" he says "keeping watch on the enemy."

~Eduardo Galeano

I can't dislike you

I can't dislike you, but I will say this to you: you haven't got long before you are all going to kill yourselves, because you are all crazy. And you can project it back at me, but I am only what lives inside each and every one of you.

~Charles Manson

I can't judge

I can't judge any of you. I have no malice against you and no ribbons for you. But I think that it is high time that you all start looking at yourselves, and judging the lie that you live in.

~Charles Manson

At this point

At this point, I'm laying on the floor begging God that if he just makes this work, I'll be good forever.

~PC World

Begging is

Begging is much more difficult than it looks. Contrary to popular belief, it’s a high art form that takes years of dedicated practice to master.

~Sol Luckman

I adopted

I adopted a begging posture that suggested genteel poverty combined with a certain affable nonchalance. People found this irresistible. They lavished money on me. Within days I exceeded ten dollars an hour. I began to save money and even, following Blue’s lead, tithed to the less fortunate. I became less pessimistic, thought less about how cruel the streets can be. I actually considered begging a legitimate career possibility.

~Sol Luckman

If you define

If you define cowardice as running away at the first sign of danger, screaming and tripping and begging for mercy, then yes, Mr. Brave man, I guess I'm a coward.

~Jack Handy

It takes money

It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.

~Sol Luckman

I cannot

I cannot dig;
to beg I am ashamed.

~Luke 16:3

I adopted

'I adopted the old Navajo Indian trick of screaming and begging.'
Wisecracking in the face of adversity.

~Bob Hope

Remain hungry

Remain hungry but do not start begging.

~Turkish Proverb

I do not ask

I do not ask you much:
I beg cold comfort.

~William Shakespeare

I would willingly

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passers-by to drop their unused minutes into it.

~Bernard Berenson

You are far away

You are far away from some, and You are close to others. Without You, there is not even a place to stand begging. See this yourself and verify it in your mind.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Borrowing

Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.

~Doris Lessing

O Nanak

O Nanak, it is absurd to ask to be spared from pain by begging for comfort.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

It is better

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.

~Delores Ibarruri

I think I mentioned

I think I mentioned to Bob [Geldof] I could make love for eight hours. What I didn't say was that this included four hours of begging and then dinner and a movie.

~Sting

He who will not

He who will not apply himself to business, eventually discovers that he means to get his bread by cheating, stealing, or begging, or else is wholly void of reason.

~Ischomachus

Take pity on me

Take pity on me, O my Lord, Merciful to the meek. I am a beggar, begging for the dust of the feet of the Holy. Servant Nanak begs for this gift, let me meditate on the Lord, forever and ever.

~Sri Guru Granth Sahib

Better

Better a living beggar than a buried emperor.

~Jean de la Fontaine

Grant me the treasure

Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging.

~St. Francis of Assisi

As for begging

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

~Oscar Wilde

Never

Never stand begging for what you have the power to earn.

~Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

The path

The path of begging will always result in our being treated as an underdog and we have been treated as such for too long.

~Cde Mugabe

I'm used to

I'm used to fixing stuff. I'm not used to begging for money. It chokes me.

~Jan Caldwell

Set a beggar

Set a beggar on horseback, and he will ride a gallop.

~Henry Burton

All religions

All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate...

~Walter Benjamin

God ordains

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

~Georges Bernanos

Beggars

Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

If begging

If begging should unfortunately be thy lot,
knock at the large gates only.

~Arabian Proverb

I don't know

I don't know who you are,
but when this night's over you'll be begging for mercy!

~Monney,from Killer Klowns From Outer Space

Beggar that I am

Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks.

~William Shakespeare

When a warrior

“When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.””

~Carlos Castaneda

It is better

It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

~Seneca

All parts

All parts should go together without forcing. You must remember that the parts you are reassembling were disassembled by you. Therefore, if you can't get them together again, there must be a reason. By all means, do not use a hammer.

~IBM maintenance manual, 1925

Thus bamboozled

"Thus bamboozled, the individual--instead of fulfilling his unique function in the world--is exhausted and frustrated in efforts to accomplish self-contradictory goals. Because he is now so largely defined as a separate person caught up in a mindless and alien universe, his principal task is to get one-up on the universe and to conquer nature."

~Alan Watts

Never mistake

Never mistake motion for action.

~Ernest Hemmingway

Being busy

"Being busy isn't the same as accomplishing something."

~unknown

Children today

Children today are tyrants.
They contradict thier parents,
gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

~Socrates (Greek philosopher, 470-399 B.C.)

The important thing

The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

~Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

You must understand

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems and suffer and understand, for all that is life.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

When we talk

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

We all want

We all want to be famous people, and the moment we want to be something we are no longer free.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Tradition

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

There is no end to education

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The moment you have

The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The flowering

The flowering of love is meditation.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your belief

Your belief in God is merely an escape from your monotonous, stupid and cruel life.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The end is the beginning

The end is the beginning of all things, Suppressed and hidden, Awaiting to be released through the rhythm Of pain and pleasure.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

The constant assertion

The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

So when

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Religion

Religion is the frozen thought of man out of which they build temples.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

It is no measure

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

In oneself

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

If we can really understand

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

I maintain

I maintain that Truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Hitler and Mussolini

Hitler and Mussolini were only the primary spokesmen for the attitude of domination and craving for power that are in the heart of almost everyone. Until the source is cleared, there will always be confusion and hate, wars and class antagonisms.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Freedom

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

All ideologies

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

A man who is

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

A consistent thinker

A consistent thinker is a thoughtless person, because he conforms to a pattern; he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.

~Jiddu Krishnamurti

Nothing You Can Trust

"The fact is there is nothing that you can trust; and that is a terrible fact, whether you like it or not. Psychologically there is nothing in the world, that you can put your faith, your trust, or your belief in. Neither your gods, nor your science can save you, can bring you psychological certainty; and you have to accept that you can trust in absolutely nothing."

~J. Krishnamurti

I tell you

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Here we are

“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

True terror

“True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.”

~Kurt Vonnegut, Jr

Just because

“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the universe.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

How nice

“How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

I want to stand

“I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

Be careful

“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”

~Kurt Vonnegut

The universe

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

~Kurt Vonnegut

Everybody

Everybody should fear only one person, and that person should be himself.

~Philip José Farmer

Reader, pray

Reader, pray that soon this Iron Age
Will crumble, and Beauty escape the rusting cage.

~Philip José Farmer

The only

The only real enemy in this life is despair, my friend.

~Riverworld, Samuel Clemens

The road

The road we walk was built with the stones that scar our feet.

~Riverworld, Tomoe Gozen

You know

You know, Sergeant Mbaye, if I ever novelize our adventures, you will be facing a considerable rewrite.

~Riverworld, Samuel Clemens:

Well,

Well, it is an unassailable fact that, as a recreational activity, mountain-climbing appears chiefly to lunatics, suicides, and the British.

~Riverworld, Samuel Clemens

Never

Never trust a man who eats blood pudding.

~Riverworld, Francisco Pizarro

It's true

It's true - I'm a habitual mendicant, but I pay my debts, not because I'm honest, but because I dislike intensely being obliged to another man.

~Riverworld, Samuel Clemmons

Myself

"The 'myself' which I am beginning to recognize,which I had forgotten but actually know better than anything else, goes far back beyond my childhood, beyond the time when adults confused me and tried to tell me that I was someone else; when, because they were bigger and stronger, they could terrify me with their imaginary fears and bewilder and outface me in the complicated game that I had not yet learned."

~Alan Watts

Success

Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.

~Willie Sutton

It is

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

~Willie Sutton

Go

Go where the money is... and go there often.

~Willie Sutton

Even in

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.

~Leo Tolstoy

The body is

The body is your temple.
Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

~B.K.S. Iyengar

Come, come

"Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again , come , come."

— Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Not only is

"Not only is the universe stranger than we suppose, its stranger than we CAN suppose!"

~Terence McKenna

We can see

We can see that these plants do more than simply maintain our body. They also promote and nourish our souls and make possible the enlightenment of our mind. Their existence is offering, sacrifice and selfless love. The earth on which they grow itself a sacraficial altar and we who receive their blessings are the sacrificial priests. Through plants, the outer light of the sun and the stars becomes the inner light which reflects back from the foundations of our soul. This is the reason why plants have always and everywhere been considered sacred, divine.

~Storl

it's not important

..it's not important to maintain control if you are not in control in the first place.

~McKenna

The real

The real is just as magical as the magical is real.

~Ernst Junger

Never miss

Never miss a good chance to shut up.

~Will Rogers

The quickest way

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket.

~Will Rogers

When you give a lesson

When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson.

~Will Rogers

There's two

There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works.

~Will Rogers

After eating

After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut.

~Will Rogers

If you get to thinkin'

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around.

~Will Rogers

If you're ridin' ahead

If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there.

~Will Rogers

Lettin' the cat

Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in.

~Will Rogers

Good judgment

Good judgment comes from experience,
and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

~Will Rogers

Don't squat

Don't squat with your spurs on.

~Will Rogers

Thirty percent

Thirty percent of the Americans who do not believe in afterlife say they have been in contact with the dead.

~American Health Magazine

I have

I have X'd myself from your world.

~Charles Manson

I'm probably

I'm probably one of the most dangerous men in the world if I want to be. But I never wanted to be anything but me.

~Charles Manson

I never thought

I never thought I was normal,
never tried to be normal.

~Charles Manson

You know

You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.

~Charles Manson

Any idiot

"Any idiot can face a crisis -
it's day to day living that wears you out."

- Anton Chekhov

Few of us

Few of us have lost our minds,
but most of us have long ago lost our bodies.

~Ken Wilbur

Love

"Love can be divided endlessly and still not diminish."

--Anna Lindbergh

Come Quickly

Come quickly!
I am tasting stars!

~Dom Perignon (French benadictine monk, 1638-1715) at the moment of his discovering champagne.

If you're going to do something

If you're going to do something, do it well.
And leave something witchy.

~Charles Manson

He might never

He might never really do what he said, but at least he had it in mind. He had somewhere to go.

~Louis L'Amour