Let it be a small gain or big gain never do lesser than one’s ability, let it be a pain or a pleasure never accept more than one’s share.

… as a breath of wind or some echo rebounds from smooth, hard surfaces and returns to the source from which it issued, so the stream of beauty passes back into its possessor through his...

You will see romance everywhere when your heart is dancing with love and joy.

People fear nothing as much as boredom and they will do unimaginable things to make it go away.

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

We are not like you. We do not glory in having power over our own kind.” Haghuf turned to walk away. Then as an afterthought added over his shoulder, “Or imagining that we do.

THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM[all snap flags]Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

Everything I learn to say or do because I love.

People with responsibility and people without responsibility are sorry for each other.

How have people come to be taken in by The Phenomenon of Man? We must not underestimate the size of the market for works of this kind [pseudoscience/’woo’], for philosophy-fiction. Just as compulsory primary education...

Love has only feelings, don’t seek meanings.

Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advancement of science, or art, or some such true...

Words were the bane of her existence. She drowned in them when all she wanted was silence, only to have them recede when one desperately-sought phrase would be the key to her salvation. Most things...

Love has only feelings, but no meanings.

If you are not satisfied with the things you have got then stop crying and start working and go get those things that will satisfy you.

The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe...

The difference between the power of love and the power of atomic bomb is that atomic bomb has a limit.

So many love affairs doesn’t survive, because the couple has been very loving to each other but with the time they stop respecting each other.

I do not know what the heart of a rascal may be, but I know what is in the heart of an honest man; it is horrible.

True love is very silent, very personal, very non-demanding, and nonjudgmental.

Hero’ is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will ever receive.

There are already plenty of people who will take a firm stand on the need to be competely impartial between right and wrong.

First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.

I’ve said you can actually see this fusion in skilled mechanics and machinists of a certain sort, and you can see it in the work they do. To say that they are not artists is...

You will be loved as much as you expect.

A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for.

I hold strongly to this: that it is better to be impetuous than circumspect; because fortune is a woman and if she is to be submissive it is necessary to beat and coerce her.

I pray for the ability to love you without expecting any return.

All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon’s time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed facts. This is incontestable, in our present advanced stage; but, if we look...

The problem with religion, because it’s been sheltered from criticism, is that it allows people to believe en masse what only idiots or lunatics could believe in isolation.

Make your love to change everyone you meet but don’t let anyone change your love for a bit.

DESPITE THE INVENTION OF TIME MACHINES, WE KEEP BEING LINEAR.

The root of humanly caused evil is not man’s animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the...

Love is the innermost energy, innermost fire which wants to come out always and spread all over.

Like an alchemical wave sending ripples of love to every part of our being, once we become conscious of an intelligent life force existing within us, everything changes.

What is so often said about the solders of the 20th century is that they fought to make us free. Which is a wonderful sentiment and one witch should evoke tremendous gratitude if in fact...

Everyone wants to be happy.So love everyone like a happy puppy.

Awkward silences rule the world. People are so terrified of awkward silences that they will literally go to war rather than face an awkward silence.

Love is the universe.

We are haunted houses of history. Nobody that we meet ever dies while we are alive.

I am not satisfied with the love that I am giving away because I am always hungry to give away more.

So live. I’ll be the nun for you. I am now.

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

So, let me get this straight– You want me to stop being a lesbian and being attracted to women because it is a ‘sin’? Last time I checked, when you lie you are sinning. Sure,...

Most of us form estimates of our intelligence, wisdom, and moral fiber that are considerably higher than an objective estimate would warrant; no doubt 90 percent of us think ourselves well above average along these...

A sheep that walks amongst wolves is called dinner.

A day without love and gratitude is a day without significance and wasted.

People get stuck a lot because they’re afraid to act; in the worst case,…we get so attached to some end result that we can’t function. We need help just to move on, only life doesn’t...

I hope it is not necessary for me to stress the platonic nature of our relationship- not platonic in the purest sense, there was no philosophical discourse, but we certainly didn’t fuck, which is usually...