Quotes Collection (38)

In all things I go to the uttermost extreme; my life long I have never been acquainted with moderation. ~ Dostoevsky

believing as they did that salvation lay in extreme and doomed commitments, promises made and somehow kept outside the range of normal social experience ~ Ava

Not to be a republican at 20 is proof of want of heart; to be one at 30 is proof of want of head. ~ François Guizot

growth has become a euphemism for survival - The Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch

Before enlightenment chop wood carry water. After enlightenment chop wood carry water. ~ Zen Proverb

The wound is where the light enters us ~ Maya Popa

[I] may be justly said to Build Castles in the Air...[Yet], we have seen such Schemes successful when the Projector is Constant ~ Alexander Hamilton

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

It is not for nothing that our age cries out for the redeemer personality, for the one who can emancipate himself from the grip of the collective and save at least his own soul, who lights a beacon of hope for others, proclaiming that here is at least one man who has succeeded in extricating himself from that fatal identity with the group psyche. ~ Carl Jung

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. ~C.S. Lewis

Those who dance are considered fools by those who can't hear the music. ~ Watts? Nietzsche?

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for ~ Kant

We cannot change the world. But we can change ourselves and that will change the world. ~ Anon

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist ~ Charles Baudelaire

The world will ask who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. ~ Carl Jung

I was never really insane except on occasions my heart was touched ~ Edgar Allen Poe

The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it. ~ Mikko Harvey

Trust is gained in inches per year and lost in miles per second ~ anon

Life has to win everyday death only has to win once ~ anon

Culture is so incredibly important because it is the foundation for all future innovation. People with passion can change the world ~ Brian Chesky

Culture is simply a shared way of doing something with passion ~ Brian Chesky

In organizations (or even in a society) where culture is weak, you need an abundance of heavy, precise rules and processes. ~ Brian Chesky

There's no such thing as a good or bad culture, it's either a strong or weak culture. And a good culture for somebody else may not be a good culture for you. ~ Brian Chesky

To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person ~ Bruce Lee

I am indebted to my father for living, but my teacher for living well ~ Alexander the Great

I do nothing if my father doesn't do it first ~ Jesus, paraphrased but resonated

I wanted to be a good guy, i still want to be... i dont even know what a good guy is anymore ~ Mark from The Vow

The safest way of not being very miserable is to not expect to be very happy ~ Arthur Schopenhauer

What have I lived for? Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: The longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~ Bertrand Russell’s biography

Life begins on the other side of despair ~ Satre

Freedom is what we do with what is done to us. ~ Satre

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle. ~ Osho

It is a joy to be hidden, and disaster not to be found ~ Donald Winnicott

if the only logical future exists with norms that contradict my own, then well fuck me ~ heard at LessOnline

If you know too much about what you want to seek, you will only engineer the illusion of it. ~ https://sophiefuji.com/travels.html

Imagine two worlds, one with you and one without you. What's the difference between the two worlds? Maximize the difference. That's the meaning of your life. ~ Kai Fu Lee

Myths and dreams come from the same place. They come from realizations of some kind that have expression in symbolic form. And the only myth that is gonna worth thinking about in the immediate future is one that talking about the planet, not the city not these people but the planet. ~ Joseph Campbell

The inter-relatedness of the world links us constantly with more people than our hearts can hold ~ Ann L Lindberg

He who loves the most regrets the most. ~ EEAAO

Is it true; is it kind, or is it necessary? ~ Socrates

It’s about how that kind of love makes you believe in other kinds of love. ~ Ava about friendship

Values misalignment increases coordination cost

At the trail of God we will ask, 'Why did you allow all this?' And the answer will be an echo, 'Why did you allow all this?' ~ Deaf Republic: Poems by Ilya Kaminsky

Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. ~ Howard Thurman

To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge, seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds, put them in a room together, and have them ask each other the questions they are asking themselves. ~ Reality Club’s motto, inspired by James Lee Byars

every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood then being misunderstood. The latter perhaps wound his vanity; but the former wounds his heart, his sympathy, which always says: ‘Ah, why would you also have as hard a time of it as I have?’ ~ Nietzsche

I’ve chosen my life, now I want to start living it

respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be ~ Leo Tolstoy

the truth is that you don’t have the truth; that you never will ~ The Listening Society

My Dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover. Falsely yours ~ Charles Bukowski

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. ~ Charles Bukowski

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. ~ Charles Bukowski

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~ Aristotle

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it. ~ André Gide

Sorry I sent you those emails. I was too drunk. To be afraid

They say you can't judge a book by its cover, but thats only true if you plan to read it

Public school teachers are the real heroes if you're poor

Live and learn or die and teach by example

He overdosed on pills is just a polite way of saying the world got him

Blah blah blah you are trapped in life. Here's what Im hearing: happiness isn't worth any inconvenience

Your conflicts, all the difficult things, the problematic situations in your life, are not chance or haphazard. They're actually yours. They're specifically yours, designed specifically for you by a part of you that loves you more than anything else. The part of you that loves you more than anything else has created roadblocks to lead you to yourself. You're not going to go in the right direction unless there's something pricking you in the side telling you, 'look here, this way'. That part of you loves you so much that it doesn't want you to lose the chance. It will go to extreme measures to wake you up. It will make you suffer greatly if you don't listen. What else can it do? That is its purpose. ~ A.H. Almaas