TOLERANCE & COMPASSION ARE QUALITIES OF FEARLESS PEOPLE.
PAULO COELHO
TO LOVE at the deepest level of your being truly means you are living from your infinite soul, having a human experience.
FORGIVE YOURSELF & EVERYONE & YOU ARE FREE. Doreen Virtue
WAR IS A RACKET. A racket is . . . something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.
Major General SMEDLEY BUTLER–MOST DECORATED MARINE OFFICER.
WHAT DOES A SANE MAN DO IN AN INSANE SOCIETY? JOSEPH HELLER
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GENIUS & STUPIDITY IS THAT GENIUS HAS LIMITS. ALBERT EINSTEIN
IT WAS HER HABIT to build laughter out of inadequate materials. J. STEINBECK
TENDING TO OUR SHADOWS IS LIKE IN HUNTING — YOU’LL NEED STRATEGY, PRECISION AND GREAT PATIENCE. HOWARD WHITEHOUSE
WHEN YOU WANT TO TEACH CHILDREN TO THINK, you begin by treating them seriously when they are little, giving them responsibilities, talking to them candidly, providing privacy and solicitude for them and making them readers and thinkers of significant thoughts from the beginning. That’s if you want to teach them to think. BERTRAND RUSSELL
THICH NHAT HANH
THERE IS A MISCONCEPTION THAT
BUDDHISM IS A RELIGION,
AND THAT YOU WORSHIP BUDDHA.
BUDDHISM IS A PRACTICE, LIKE YOGA.
YOU CAN BE A CHRISTIAN AND PRACTICE BUDDHISM.
I MET A CATHOLIC PRIEST WHO LIVES IN
A BUDDHIST MONASTERY IN FRANCE.
HE TOLD ME THAT BUDDHISM MAKES HIM
A BETTER CHRISTIAN. I LOVE THAT.
ALL I CAN DO FOR YOU IS WORK ON MYSELF.
ALL YOU CAN DO FOR ME IS WORK ON YOURSELF.
RAM DASS
GREATNESS is best measured by how well an individual responds to the happenings in life that appear to be totally unfair, unreasonable and undeserved.
MARVIN J. AUSTON
I THINK OUR SOCIETY IS RUN BY INSANE PEOPLE FOR INSANE OBJECTIVES. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends. I think they’re all insane. But I am liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about about it. DON’T YOU AGREE? John Lennon
WE ARE IN THE HANDS OF MEN WHOSE POWER & WEALTH HAVE SEPARATED THEM FROM THE REALITY OF DAILY LIFE & FROM THE IMAGINATION. WE ARE RIGHT TO BE AFRAID. Grace Paley
PAUL AUSTER 1947-2024 “The Book of illusions: A Novel””Moon Palace”
IF YOU’RE NOT READY FOR EVERYTHING, YOU’RE NOT READY FOR ANYTHING.
STORIES ONLY HAPPEN TO THOSE WHO ARE ABLE TO TELL THEM.
IT ALWAYS STIMULATES ME to discover new examples of my own prejudice & stupidity, to realize that I don’t know half as much as I think I do.
TO LEAVE THE WORLD A LITTLE BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT. THAT’S THE BEST A MAN CAN EVER DO.
THERE’S HOPE FOR EVERYONE. THAT’S WHAT MAKES THE WORLD TO GO AROUND.
WE FIND OURSELVES ONLY BY LOOKING TO WHAT WE’RE NOT.
AS LONG AS YOU ARE DREAMING, THERE’S ALWAYS A WAY OUT.
I BELIEVE THAT EVERY ARTIST, in one way or another, is a wonded person. It’s not natural to make art.
ARTISTS ARE THE PEOPLE FOR WHOM THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY 1890-1957 “THE HAUNTED BOOKSHOP””PARNASSUS”
THE REAL PURPOSE OF BOOKS IS TO TRAP THE MIND INTO DOING ITS OWN THINKING.
Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.
THERE IS ONLY ONE SUCCESS — TO BE ABLE TO SPEND YOUR LIFE IN YOUR OWN WAY.
THERE ARE THREE INGEDIENTS IN THE GOOD LIFE: LEARNING, EARNING & YEARNING.
NO ONE APPRECIATES the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
IT’S A GOOD thing to turn your mind upside down now & then, like an hour glass, to let the particles run the other way.
HIGH heels were invented by a woman who had been kissed on the forehead.
HEAVY HEARTS, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
BIG SHOTS ARE ONLY LITTLE SHOTS WHO KEEP SHOOTING.
ACT LIKE YOU EXPECT TO GET IN THE END ZONE.
MEN TALK OF ‘FINDING GOD.’ but no wonder is it difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.
WHEN YOU SELL A MAN A BOOK you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper & ink & glue — you sell him a whole new life. Love & friendship & humor & ships at sea by night — there’s all heaven & earth in a book, a real book.
MY THEOLOGY, BRIEFLY, IS THAT THE UNIVERSE WAS DICTATED BUT NOT SIGNED.
A HUMAN BEING: AN INGENIOUS ASSEMBLY OF PORTABLE PLUMBING.
A MAN WHO HAS NEVER MADE A WOMAN ANGRY IS A FAILURE IN LIFE.
THE MISFORTUNES HARDEST TO BEAR ARE THESE WHICH NEVER CAME.
THE ENEMIES OF THE FUTURE ARE ALWAYS THE VERY NICEST PEOPLE.
THERE IS NO MISTAKING a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
AMERICA is still a government of the naive, for the naive, & by the naive. He who does not know this, nor relish it, has no inkling of the nature of his country.
SIGMUND FREUD 1856-1939 “The Interpretation of Dreams””The Egoand the Id”
ALL DREAMS are a form of wish-fulfillment of repressed wishes or the representation of wish-fulfillment.
ANATOMY IS DESTINY.
A CIVILIZATION which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied & drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
RELIGION is an illusion & it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires.
CIVILIZATION BEGAN the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.
UNEXPRESSED EMOTIONS WILL NEVER DIE. They are buried alive & will come forth later in uglier ways.
ONE DAY, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.
IN THE SMALL MATTERS TRUST THE MIND — IN THE LARGE ONES THE HEART.
WE choose not randomly each other. We meet only those who already exists in our subconscious.
MOST PEOPLE do not really want freedom because freedom involves responsibility & most people are frightened of responsibility.
OUT OF YOU VULNERABILITIES WILL COME YOUR STRENGTH.
WE ARE WHAT WE ARE BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN WHAT WE HAVE BEEN.
ALL FAMILY LIFE IS ORGANIZED AROUND THE MOST DAMAGED PERSON IN IT.
HUMAN BEINGS ARE FUNNY.
LOVE IS A STATE OF TEMPORARY PSYCHOSIS.
MATURITY IS THE ABILITY TO POSTPONE GRATIFICATION.
I HAVE FOUND LITTLE ‘GOOD’ about human beings. In my experience most of them are trash.
KNOWLEDGE is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations.
HISTORY IS JUST NEW PEOPLE MAKING OLD MISTAKES.
THE ONLY SHAME IN MASTURBATION IS THE SHAME OF NOT DOING IT WELL.
FROM ERROR TO ERROR ONE DISCOVERS THE ENTIRE TRUTH.