…something important is lost if this man has been forced to deny his own nature.

I was pondering the reason why we are all here in this life, and what did it all mean. It seemed to me that we had all been invited to one big party, but no-one’s...

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart?

I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction.

The child-like, gum-chewing naïveté , the glamour rooted in despair, the self admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones…

Could mankind declare it was truly wise? Did man know everything on earth, or would he ever? Certainly not!

If he ever changes his stance on something, it’s because he’s received new information.

Aquellos de espíritu superior entienden la justicia. Los ordinarios, el beneficio.

philosophy is not suited for the masses, what they need is holiness.

Søte bløte stikkelsbær. Hvorfor vokser du på så sinte trær? Hvorfor kan du ikke neste vår, vokse på en eplegren? Sånn at jeg kan få plukket deg, uten å få stukket meg!

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the...

A lot of things should have been, Zigmund, but they aren’t. Are you going to be miserable about the things you cannot change, or do something about the things you can?

There’s only one thing you can do: Toss your pebble in the river, watch it ripple, and know you have moved the ocean.

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness….

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

The deepest and darkest dungeons that we are ever flung into are the dungeons of the mind

This Self is never born, nor does It die. It did not spring from anything, nor did anything spring from It. This Ancient One is unborn, eternal, everlasting. It is not slain even though the...

If I breathe, what will my heart think?If I vomit, what will my soul think?

There can be no law of nature, no science,No aberrant infliction of human willThat unchained the soul cannot conquer,Simply sweep away, should it chose to.

Rubashov had always believed that he knew himself rather well. Being without moral prejudices, he had no illusions about the phenomenon called the “first person singular” and had taken for granted, without particular emotion, that...

Shukhov stared at the ceiling and said nothing. He no longer knew whether he wanted to be free or not…it had gradually dawned on him that people like himself were not allowed to go home...

Living in the fast lane is great as long as you remember where the slip roads are

Science tells us what we can know, but what we can know is little, and if we forget how much we cannot know, we become insensitive to many things of great importance.

True beauty lies not upon gilded veneers,But found in the soul within.

I’m a fool.At least i’m a self aware fool.

I notice when you’re gone. Or do I? How can I observe something that isn’t there?

Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That’s how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick...

Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us...

If you have life and good health, you have the greatest blessings.

Per quanto ammirevole, il tuo bisogno impellente di sacrificare l’esistenza per il bene di un’altra persona poteva dipendere dal fatto che quando avevi la vita interamente nelle tue mani, non sapevi che fartene. Immolarsi a...

Avoid loud and aggressive persons,they are vexations to the spirit.

Üzüm üzüme baka baka kararır mı? Yoksa kendi gibi olan diğer üzümlere bakmak yerine tutup da kara üzüme bakan bir üzüm, zaten teorik olarak kara mıdır?

Ne jau par savu godu ir jācīnās. No visām šai pasaulē iespējamajām darbībām karš ir tas, kurā goda ir vismazāk. Vienīgais gods ir cīnīties un mirt tikai tāpēc, lai karš beigtos un vairs nekad nebūtu...

If I could do anything, I would go to the middle of our planet, Earth, and seek uranium, rubies, and gold. I’d look for Unspoiled Monsters. Then I’d move to the country. –Florie Rotondo, age...

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own.

We go to school so that when we grow up we can make lots of money, and we make lots of money so we can provide for our children, and we have children to provide...

You’re an unusual person,” she said.”Bill didn’t like you, but he never likes anything different. He’s so—so prosaic. Don’t you think that when a person gets older he should become—broadened in his outlook?

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren’t even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were “really there”.

We all have our safe places, where none are invited. They are lonely rooms full of the musk of memory. Sanctuary rather than adventure.

If I found a job, a project, an idea or a person I wanted-I’d have to depend on the whole world. Everything has strings leading to everything else. We’re all so tied together. We’re all...

The sky was almost black and then it started hailing. It was so beautiful and scary, I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the...

Life is like a one rung ladder, some days you can be on the top and bottom of the world at the same time

Life is like a DVR recording. The story goes on, but you cannot see it until you fast forward through the commercials

An autobiography is inherently incomplete unless the last page is written on the eve of the author’s demise.

The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.

When it has finished saying it, it no longer is. The longer it is in saying it, the more it can say it at length, the more slowly it melts, the better quality it is.

A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

One of the protestor’s sign catches my eye. HOMISEXUALITY IS THE DEVIL’S WORK, it says. And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The...

It’s our founding knowledge that diverts us from the truth

Whatever life throws at me, I’ll take with a smile upon my face and Nirvana’s ‘Bleach’ on the stereo.