My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.
The real world has its limits; the imaginary world is infinite. Unable to enlarge the one, let us restrict the other, for it is from the difference between the two alone that are born all the pains which make us truly unhappy.
Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.
There was an enjoyment to being alive, he felt, that because of an underlying meaninglessness–like how a person alone for too long cannot feel comfortable when with others; cannot neglect that underlying the feeling of belongingness is the certaint...
The culture of the Epic Fail, in its rituals of comic sacrifice, is a culture of sublimated predation.
Irony is a treacherous servant; unless it's very carefully watched over, it has a tendency to expose the foolishness of its apparent master.
Human history is one prolonged and painful limping. We invariably step with one foot on the rock of justice, and with the other, we sink into the mire of deceit and self-delusion.
the mystic must be steadily told,—All that you say is just as true without the tedious use of that symbol as with it. Let us have a little algebra, instead of this trite rhetoric,—universal signs, instead of these village symbols,—and we shall ...
He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
When leaders reframe customers into guests, and results into experiences, profits escalate.
One's best work comes when we are fully alive, happy, and inspired.
The most important attitude that can be formed is that of desire to go on learning.
Among the many short cuts to science, we badly need someone to teach us the art of learning with difficulty.
All great and precious things are lonely.
I Cannot Remember You ...engulfed in liquid amnesia I cannot fight the tide
...unquestioning automatons blindly marching to the beat - an eerie crunching sound hoards of shuffling feet... (from silent moments)
I want to be with you forever and beyond...
Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp".
It's no good choosing your first husband from a school for evil geniuses. Much too difficult to kill.
Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops of the western mountains and to feel the breeze drawn into the valley by the rising day-heated air. Usually they stood silently for a while and breat...
Modernization, socialization, and progression doesn’t alter nor permit discarding the morals and the laws one should abide themselves too.
