Quotes

Heaven’s not a place that you go when you die. It’s that moment in life when you actually feel alive. So live for the moment. — The Spill Canvas

By attempting to rigidly classify ethereal concepts like faith, we end up debating semantics to the point where we entirely miss the obvious–that is, that we are all trying to decipher life’s big mysteries, and we’re each following our own paths of enlightenment. — Dan Brown

No Color, No Race, No Religion, No Creed, No Reason To Hate. Why Can’t You See? — Against All Authority

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. — Douglas Adams

I have an existential map; it has ‘you are here’ written all over it. — Steven Wright

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. — Edward Abbey

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. — Mark Twain

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain. — Bob Marley

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our dark that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people don’t feel insecure around you.We are all meant to shine as children do. Its not just in some of us; its in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsiously give other people to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. — Marianne Williamson

Do you know that the harder thing to do and the right thing to do are usually the same thing? Nothing that has meaning is easy. ‘Easy’ doesn’t enter into grown-up life. — Robert Spritz, The Weather Man

Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expediency asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’ And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but because conscience tells one it is right. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

Through intuition we will conquer the seemingly unconquerable hostility that separates our human flesh from the metal of motors. — Futurist Cookbook

“How far are we gonna take this?”
“The question is not how far. The question is do you possess the constitution, the depth of faith, to go as far is as needed.” — Boondock Saints

We shall not cease from exploration…
and the end of all our exploration will be to arrive where we started…
and know the place for the first time. — T.S.Eliot, Little Gidding

I can’t believe how naive I was to think things could ever be so simple. — Against Me!

Summer should be a time when rules can be bent and boredom is a state of grace. — Time Magazine

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. — Ralph W. Sockman

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them — Albert Einstein

The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection. — Bertrand Russell

You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your ****ng khakis. — Tyler Durden (Fight Club)

Be the change you want to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

If we couldn’t laugh, we would all go insane. — Jimmy Buffett

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities. — Dr. Seuss

He that would be a leader must be a bridge. — Welsh Proverb

An overload of information . . . leads to information blackout. It does not enrich, but impoverishes. — Peter Drucker

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult. — Warren Buffett

If you want people to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Author of The Little Prince

Every generation has the obligation to free men’s minds for a look at new worlds…to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation. — Ellison S. Onizuka

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane… There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. — Lao Tzu

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. — Jimi Hendrix

I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. — Stephen Grellet

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. — Blaise Pascal

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Mark Twain

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor. — Hubert H. Humphrey

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. — Carl Bard

A mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lit… — Plutarch

When I go biking, I repeat a mantra of the day’s sensations: bright sun, blue sky, warm breeze, blue jay’s call, ice melting and so on. This helps me transcend the traffic, ignore the clamorings of work, leave all the mind theaters behind and focus on nature instead. I still must abide by the rules of the road, of biking, of gravity. But I am mentally far away from civilization. The world is breaking someone else’s heart. — Diane Ackerman

Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential. — Bruce Lee