Things I've found to be True
"When your love lets you go, you only want love more. Even when love's not what you were looking for."
Speak Slow by Tegan & Sara
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think-rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."
John Dewey
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
Karl Jung
"When good things happen to good people, that's good. When bad things happen to good people, that's bad. When good things happen to bad people, that's bad. When bad things happen to bad people, that's good."
My 6th grade math teacher Mr. Macpherson who was, coincidentally, trying to explain multiplication rules
"Every cloud has a silver lining."
Common Saying
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night."
Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part."
St. Augustine on Love
"The only things that are free are death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin
"Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
Thomas Wolfe
"Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel."
Anonymous
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
Karl Jung
"Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks."
French Proverb
"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too."
Oscar Wilde
"1 + 1 = 2"
Everyone. Except those people who are still convinced that it's 11.
"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
John Lennon
"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, this one isn't really a quote. It's the gist of a religious pamphlet that a Christian person on the street handed me one day. Basically, you shouldn't procrastinate repentance or you will go to hell. I take it as "Procrastination could be the death of you," even though hell is a bit more extreme.
"There is no modern romance."
Modern Romance by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
Marilyn Monroe
(and, while we're at it...)
"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
Marilyn Monroe
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
Pablo Picasso
"El ladron que roba a otro ladron tiene cien años de perdon."
Spanish proverb
"Man is a universe within himself."
Bob Marley
"When a man loves a woman,
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else,
He'd change the world for the good thing he's found.
If she is bad, he can't see it,
She can do no wrong,
Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down."
When a Man Loves a Woman by written by C. Lewis and A. Wright performed by Percy Sledge. Honestly, that entire song is true. The reverse is also true.
"The function of pop music is to be consumed."
Pierre Boulez (Although, sometimes, it's delicious...)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Common Saying
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Anonymous
Basically, these are all things I've heard at one point or another. I've taken them to heart, or have tried. I nevertheless accept them as true to me and the life I've led thus far.
Speak Slow by Tegan & Sara
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think-rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men."
John Dewey
"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."
Karl Jung
"When good things happen to good people, that's good. When bad things happen to good people, that's bad. When good things happen to bad people, that's bad. When bad things happen to bad people, that's good."
My 6th grade math teacher Mr. Macpherson who was, coincidentally, trying to explain multiplication rules
"Every cloud has a silver lining."
Common Saying
"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who only dream by night."
Eleonora by Edgar Allan Poe
"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part."
St. Augustine on Love
"The only things that are free are death and taxes."
Benjamin Franklin
"Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you."
Thomas Wolfe
"Life is a handful of short stories pretending to be a novel."
Anonymous
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity."
Karl Jung
"Everything passes; everything wears out; everything breaks."
French Proverb
"Always! That is the dreadful word ... it is a meaningless word, too."
Oscar Wilde
"1 + 1 = 2"
Everyone. Except those people who are still convinced that it's 11.
"When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
John Lennon
"The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."
Friedrich Nietzsche
Well, this one isn't really a quote. It's the gist of a religious pamphlet that a Christian person on the street handed me one day. Basically, you shouldn't procrastinate repentance or you will go to hell. I take it as "Procrastination could be the death of you," even though hell is a bit more extreme.
"There is no modern romance."
Modern Romance by Yeah Yeah Yeahs
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring."
Marilyn Monroe
(and, while we're at it...)
"It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone."
Marilyn Monroe
"If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes."
Pablo Picasso
"El ladron que roba a otro ladron tiene cien años de perdon."
Spanish proverb
"Man is a universe within himself."
Bob Marley
"When a man loves a woman,
Can't keep his mind on nothin' else,
He'd change the world for the good thing he's found.
If she is bad, he can't see it,
She can do no wrong,
Turn his back on his best friend if he put her down."
When a Man Loves a Woman by written by C. Lewis and A. Wright performed by Percy Sledge. Honestly, that entire song is true. The reverse is also true.
"The function of pop music is to be consumed."
Pierre Boulez (Although, sometimes, it's delicious...)
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
Common Saying
"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"I think, therefore I am."
Rene Descartes
"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."
Anonymous
Basically, these are all things I've heard at one point or another. I've taken them to heart, or have tried. I nevertheless accept them as true to me and the life I've led thus far.