Quotes
Some of my favorite quote from my favorite thinkers. If you read, read with care.
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
"The few whom you will illuminate by sharing your light are far more than enough reason for the greatest possible effort. To serve one is to serve all." -You
"We all make choices but in the end our choices make us."
-Andrew Ryan
"because it is a rare thing to meet someone who knows what their truth is to them." - Samuel Sartin
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes, I will do what I must" - Ben Kenobi
"Let go of your fear, lose the need to control, flow within creation, live in balance" - Anonymous
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... 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 your every motion and joint of your body.
-Walt Whitman
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E.B. White
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
- G.K. Chesterton
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
- Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-Thoreau
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. "
- Arundhati Roy
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin
"The few whom you will illuminate by sharing your light are far more than enough reason for the greatest possible effort. To serve one is to serve all." -You
"We all make choices but in the end our choices make us."
-Andrew Ryan
"because it is a rare thing to meet someone who knows what their truth is to them." - Samuel Sartin
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes, I will do what I must" - Ben Kenobi
"Let go of your fear, lose the need to control, flow within creation, live in balance" - Anonymous
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... 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 your every motion and joint of your body.
-Walt Whitman
"If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day."
- E.B. White
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
- G.K. Chesterton
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
- Isaac Asimov
"If cats looked like frogs we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are. Style. That's what people remember."
- Terry Pratchett (Lords and Ladies)
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
-Henry David Thoreau
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
-Thoreau
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. "
- Arundhati Roy