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"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"'He means well' is useless unless he does well." -Plautus
“Image creates desire. You will what you imagine." -J. G. Gallimore
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~ Alan Alda
"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." - Aristotle
“Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein
"Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony." -William James
The world was made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. - Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
One man scorned and covered with scars
still strove with his last ounce of courage
to reach the unreachable stars;
and the world will be better for this.
~ Mitch Leigh, The Quest, based on Cervantes
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
"I was saying," continued the Rocket, "I was saying - What was I saying?"
"You were talking about yourself," replied the Roman Candle.
"Of course; I knew I was discussing some interesting subject when I was so rudely interrupted." -Oscar Wilde, The Remarkable Rocket
"We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last." -T.S. Eliot
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. -- Albert Camus
If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us. -- Hermann Hesse
And though they shine, some more, some less, when they are out of his sight, yet in his presence they shine no more than the stars in the presence of the sun. --Hobbes, Leviathan
We see things not as they are but as we are. --Anais Nin
Presume not that I am the thing I was. --William Shakespeare
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth. -- Ocsar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Ocsar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. -- Ocsar Wilde
If I try to be like him, who will try to be like me? --Unknown
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new - eyes. ~Marcel Proust
"Judge not, that ye be not judge"... is an abdication of moral responsibility: it is a moral blank check one gives to others in exchange for a moral blank check one expects for oneself. There is no escape from the fact that men have to make choices; so long as men have to make choices, there is no escape from moral values; so long as moral values are at stake, no moral neutrality is possible. To abstain from condemning a torturer, is to become an accesory to the torture and murder of his victims. The moral principle to adopt... is: "Judge, and be prepared to be judged." -Ayn Rand
I am nothing and should be everything. -Karl Marx
The point is, who are you? Not why or how, not even what.... You are the sum of so many reflections. How many reflections? Whose reflections? Is that what you consist of? What scum does the tide leave? What happens to the scum? When does it happen? I've seen what happens.... The scum is broken and sucked back. I don't see where it goes, I don't see when, what do I see, what have I seen? What have I seen, the scum or the essence? -Harold Pinter, The Dwarfs
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning, but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat. ~George Eliot
"Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat."
"Hi! I'm heavily armed, easily bored & off the medication."
"'Courage is Easy By Candlelight. Your Faith, I Suspect, Is In the Flame.' Death grinned." ~Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
Your emotions make you a monster. The question, then, is "Would you rather be a feeling monster or a non-feeling machine?". -Lincoln Nielson
"The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition." -Henry Miller
He had occasional flashes of silence that made his conversation perfectly delightful. -Sydney Smith
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies with in us." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself. ~ Alan Alda ~
"You cannot run away from a weakness; you must some time fight it out or perish; and if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?" - Robert Louis Stevenson
"The eternal quest of individual human beings is to shatter their loneliness." - Norman Cousins
"The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper." - Aristotle
Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts." -Albert Einstein
The world was made for people who aren't cursed with self-awareness. - Bull Durham, screenplay by Ron Shelton
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be the blade that was broken,
The crownless shall be king."
-J.R.R. Tolkien
"We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last." -T.S. Eliot
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is. -- Albert Camus
A cat will look down to a man. A dog will look up to a man. But a pig will look you straight in the eye and see his equal. - Winston Churchill
We see things not as they are but as we are. --Anais Nin
Presume not that I am the thing I was. --William Shakespeare
Originality does not consist in saying what no one else has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. --James Stephens
Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be silent if no birds sang but the best. -Henry Van Dyke
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Ocsar Wilde
There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us. -- Ocsar Wilde
If I try to be like him, who will try to be like me? --Unknown
I'm not ugly, I'm just aesthetically ambiguous.
When you can't walk around in someone else's shoes, your soul has worn thin.
If you cared about yourself as much as everybody else did, you would never be depressed
The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.
The Meaning Of Life: The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go. --Steven Wright
I thank whatever Gods may be for my unconquerable soul. -William Ernest Henley
The point is, who are you? Not why or how, not even what.... You are the sum of so many reflections. How many reflections? Whose reflections? Is that what you consist of? What scum does the tide leave? What happens to the scum? When does it happen? I've seen what happens.... The scum is broken and sucked back. I don't see where it goes, I don't see when, what do I see, what have I seen? What have I seen, the scum or the essence? -Harold Pinter, The Dwarfs
“I'm not inconsiderate! I just honestly don't give a shit!" -Unknown
The conditions of a solitary bird are five: The first, that it flies to the highest point; The Second, that it does not suffer for company, not even of its own kind; The Third, that it aims its beak to the skies; The Fourth, that it does not have a definite color; The Fifth, that it sings very softly. ~San Juan de la Cruz, Dichos de Luz y Amor
"Silence is sometimes the best answer."
"There is nothing worse than being ordinary." ~American Beauty
"Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god." – Aristotle
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary." - Sir Cecil Beaton
"Under all speech that is good for anything, there is a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -Carl Jung
Who am I? Who are you? That is to say, "Who are you really?" Do you know? Does anyone know? The restraints of this society make us put up so many walls of bullshit and facades to hide who we are that it is almost impossible to tell who anyone really is. We dig ourselves into a comfortable hole to hide away from the eyes of our peers, and it's in this hole that we bury ourselves. Dig yourselves out. Claw your way back into the light of day. Let your true self breathe, and in doing that, live. -Patrick Goins, Half life
“Some people are okay. But mostly- I just feel like poisoning everybody,” ~Ghost World
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