RELIGIONS PREACH HEAVEN AND HELL TO BRAINWASH YOU THROUGH FEAR. JOHN KESSLER
I’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR YEARS for the ideal place. And I’ve come to the realization that only way to find it is to be it. ALAN WATTS
WHATEVER is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess. Thomas Paine
THE SIMPLE STEP of the courageous individual is to not take part in the lie. ALEXANDER SOLZHENITSYN
THEORDORE ZELDIN 1933—–“An Intimate History of Humanity”
WE CANNOT CHANGE PUBLIC LIFE until we have changed private life.
I DON’T THINK FEAR CAN BE ABOLISHED.
WE THINK OF SPEAKING as something we do naturally, without any effort. But like playing music, it requires attention and knowledge and practice.
NEVER BEFORE have humans been so ambitious, have they thought they could be much more than their parents were.
YOU have to accept that traditions exist, that people don’t change their minds very quickly, that people are scared.
A DREAM is what makes people love life even when it is painful.
THE MORE EDUCATION YOU DO, THE LESS YOU ARE CAPABLE OF DOING.
THE WORLD IS . . . often terrifying, disgusting and tragic, but it is also beautiful. I should like to know how exactly each person would make it a tiny bit less disgusting and a tiny bit more beautiful.
EACH PERSON is an enigma. You’re a puzzle not only to yourself but also to everyone else and the great mystery of our time is how we penetrate this puzzle.
DISCOVER another person who has similar problems and create trust and even a friendship.
BREAKING accepted rules does bring people together.
WE SHOULD STRIVE to be employed in such a way that we don’t realize that what we’re doing is work.
WHAT’S MISSING IN THE WORLD IS A SENSE OF DIRECTION.
RAY BRADBURY—-1920-2012 “Fahrenheit 451″”Martian Chronicles”
JUMP, and you will find how to unfold your wings as you fall.
DONT’ THINK. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things.
I’M NOT IN CONTROL OF MY MUSE. MY MUSE DOES ALL THE WORK.
WE ARE CUPS, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.
YOU CAN MAKE YOURSELF HAPPY OR MISERABLE — it’s the same amount of effort.
TREASURE this day and treasure yourself, truly, neither will ever happen again.
LOOKING BACK over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything.
ANYTHING you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.
ALL EDUCTION IS SELF-DISCOVERY.
LIFE IS ABOUT TRYING THINGS TO SEE IF THEY WORK.
THE MINUTE you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas.
SOMETIMES I THNK I UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING. THEN I REGAIN CONSCIOUSNESS.
INSANITY is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.
YOU HAVE TO LEARN TO TAKE REJECTION not as an indication of personal failing but as a wrong address.
THERE IS ONLY ONE TYPE OF STORY IN THE WORLD —YOUR STORY.
YOU’VE BEEN PUT IN THE WORLD TO LOVE THE ACT OF BEING ALIVE.
DOROTHY PARKER 1893-1967. “Enough Rope”. “Big Blond”.
TIME MAY BE A GREAT HEALER, BUT IT’S A LOUSY BEAUTICIAN.
CREATIVITY IS A WILD MIND AND A DISCIPLINED EYE.
THE CURE FOR BOREDOM IS CURIOSITY.
THE ONLY dependable law of life — everything is always worse than you thought it was going tone.
YOU CAN LEAD A HORTICULTURE, BUT YOU CAN’T MAKE HER THINK.
IF LOVE IS BLIND, why is lingerie so popular?
WRITE short story every week. It’s not possible to write 52 bad stories in a row.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW HOW TO ACCEPT REJECTION AND REJECT ACCEPTANCE.
I DON’T THINK the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.
YOU CAN’T TEACH AN OLD DOGMA NEW TRICKS.
A HANGOVER IS THE WRATH OF GRAPES.
DON’T LOOK AT ME IN THAT TONE OF VOICE.
HETEROSEXUAL is not normal, it’s just common.
THERE’S hell of a difference between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
love smiles