Quotations

The following are some inspirational (and at times, disturbing) words I've come across.

Enjoy!

* What you see, is.

* Argue with reality and you'll lose... but only 100% of the time.

* Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

* They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

* I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

* We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

* The gap between your expectations and reality is your suffering.

* Truth is. Belief is not required.

* Every day above ground is a beautiful day.

* The man who follows the crowd will usually go no farther than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been before.

* The largest question facing the human race is not when will you learn, but when will you act on what you've already learned.

* It is the chief-est point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

* When you finally realize that you need nothing, you will have everything.

* The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.

* No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

* Age is a very high price to pay for maturity...

* Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

* To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

* Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the façade of pretence. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.

* I like people who shake other people up and make them feel uncomfortable.

* Not all who wander are lost.

* To be yourself, in a world that tries, night and day, to make you just like everybody else - is to fight the greatest battle there ever is to fight, and never stop fighting.

* I love you and because I love you I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore me for telling you lies.

* A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.

* Some people will not tolerate such emotional honesty in communication. They would rather defend their dishonesty on the grounds that it might hurt others. Therefore, having rationalized their phoniness into nobility, they settle for superficial relationships.

* I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.

* Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

* No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

* It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

* Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

* There comes a time when you have to stand up and shout: This is me damn it! I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! Do not try to make me feel like less of a person, just because I don't fit your idea of who I should be and don't try to change me to fit your mould. If I need to change, I alone will make that decision. When you are strong enough to love yourself 100%, good and bad - you will be amazed at the opportunities that life presents you.

* The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

* A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize the truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself as well as for others.

* It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

* Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

* If you want guarantees in life, then you don't want life. You want rehearsals for a script that's already been written. Life by its nature cannot have guarantees, or its whole purpose is thwarted.

* It has been said that we need just three things in life: something to do, something to look forward to and someone to love.

* 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.

* We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

* That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he/she really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession.

* A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

* You live you die and death not ends it.

* People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.

* I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose.

* Paranoia comes from experience.

* We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

* When dealing with any large organization, it's useful to remember the maxim: never ascribe to malice what can be explained by stupidity.

* The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

* Half of our mistakes in life arises from feeling where we ought to think, and thinking where we ought to feel.

* It is difficulties that show what men are.

* When you have to define your Rights and Freedoms in a Charter or Constitution... you have no Rights and Freedoms.

* The level of irony in ones words is directly proportional to the level of hostility in ones voice.

* Man, I'm sick of doubt.

* Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose vis-à-vis an introduction, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V.

* I'm almost always eventually right. (thanks House) Read More...