The mind would rather fret about the future or pine over the past — so the mind can cling to its own illusion of control. But the current moment? It cannot be controlled. And what a mind can’t control, it tends to discount. Brush past ... over. I...
It is not brains or intelligence that is needed to cope with the problems with Plato and Aristotle and all of their successors to the present have failed to confront. What is needed is a readiness to undervalue the world altogether. This is only poss...
I feel great! I really mean it. I have to remember this for the next time I’m having a terrible week. Have you ever done that? You feel really bad, and then it goes away, and you don’t know why. I try to remind myself when I feel great like this ...
Stalker's Wife: And there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair. And the moon became like blood... And the stars of the sky fell to the earth, as a fig tree casts its unripe figs when shaken by a great wind. And t...
Terry Ladd: Yeah, listen, we'd love to stand around and chat, but we've gotta... sit down in the lobby and wait for the limo. Derek Smalls: Ok. David St. Hubbins: OK. Great. Duke, great to see you. Great to see you again Terry. Derek Smalls: We'll ca...
The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
Great blessings come from Heaven; small blessings come from man.
The first step toward greatness is to be honest.
I haven't strength of mind not to need a career.
He who has two women loses his soul; he who has two houses loses his mind.
What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?
Because love is also a power. A great power, and it should not be disdained.
Tom's cowardice was as huge as his courage, as it must be in great men.
...a society without jaywalkers might indicate a society without artists.
I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I've got to think.
Sometimes you had to make the animals perform.
No people find each other more absurd than lovers
life ain't supposed to be nothing, 'cept maybe tough
Her insan kendinde en az bir büyük erdem olduğuna inanır. Benimki, tanıdıklarım arasında en dürüst kişi olmamdır.
I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.