The most formidable thing standing between your dreams and you ; is you

Good apprentices know that they are in the process of becoming masters and that as responsible artisans they must seek to improve upon the knowledge entrusted to them and go further.

Sometimes changing the world is as simple as changing the way you look at it.

Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love?

Man is Nature’s most wonderful creature. Torturing him, crushing him, murdering him for his beliefs and ideas is more than a violation of human rights-it is a crime against all humanity.

For the salvation of his soul the Muslim digs a well. It would be a fine thing if each of us were to leave behind a school, or a well, or something of the sort,...

How curious it was, […], that we humans had taken millions of year to crawl up out of the swamps and yet, within minutes of death, we were already tobogganing back down the slope.

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

I don’t reckon misery loves any damn thing at all.

Dualism::In Ralph Ellison’s Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot.

I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart.

There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Es decir…, lo que yo creo es que el hombre piensa en el significado de la vida porque sabe con certeza que va morir algún día. (…) Nadie sabe lo que va a ocurrir. Por...

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.

Must this with farce and folly rack myhead unpunish’d ? that with sing-song,Whine me dead?

In truth, Liesel was a prisoner too, just held by different kinds of bonds.

For the elements have the property of moving back to their place in a straight line, but they have no properties which would cause them to remain where they are, or to move other-wise than...

Be not afraid life with all its despair, pain and unhappiness is just a crucible wherein your brighter dreams are conceived, shaped and born

No one is a good historian of the patent, visible, striking, and public life of peoples, if he is not, at the same time, in a certain measure, the historian of their deep and hidden...

Work on your character, let life fall into place.

You put on a bishop’s robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty...

You’d be surprised how easy some things can be, things you never thought you’d do, when you take self-respect out of the equation.

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?

All life is theatre,’ he said. ‘We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves….

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

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...