Incubus
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
- Buddha
Put a small child in a playpen with an apple and a bunny. If s/he eats the apple and plays with the bunny, s/he's normal; but if s/he eats the bunny and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. Somewhere along the line we must have been TAUGHT to do the wrong thing.
-Maynard
A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
- Albert Einstein
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
You know, in a lot of people's eyes, being a musician or a writer or an artist full-time is not something too respectable. But to tell you the truth, I think it's the most respectable profession, because you're doing what you want to do. And you're not succumbing to the pressures of doing what you don't want to do, just to make a living. You realize you can actually make a living by doing something that excites you. And the more you pursue what excites you, the more you're rewarded.
- Brandon Boyd
The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states.
- Gandhi
After you get what you want, you don't want it. If I gave you the moon, you'd get tired of it soon.
- Marilyn Monroe
I love the development of our music, that's what I
really dig about the whole thing. How we've tried
to develop, y'know? It grows. That's why every day
people come forward with new songs. Music goes on
forever.
-Bob Marley
(August 1979)
My life is my message.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
If you wake up in the morning, and you can't think of anything but singing, then you should be a singer, girl.
- Sister Mary Clarence
Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.
- Buddist quote
It is important to recognize the power of our emotions--and to take responsibility for them by creating a light and positive atmosphere around ourselves. This attitude of joy that we create helps alleviate states of hopelessness, loneliness, and despair. Our relationships with others thus naturally improve, and little by little the whole of society becomes more positive and balanced.
- Tarthang Tulku
I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so you can learn to let go, things go wrong so you can learn to appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no-one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so that better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe
Let us live gladly! Quite certainly we are free to do it. Perhaps it is our only freedom, but ours it is, and it is only phenomenally a freedom. 'Living free' is being 'as one is'. Can we not do it now? Indeed can we not-do-it? It is not even a 'doing': it is beyond doing and not-doing. It is being as-we-are. This is the only 'practice'. 'All Else is Bondage; Non-Volitional Living'
- Wei Wu Wei
At the age of eleven or thereabouts women acquire a poise and an ability to handle difficult situations which a man, if he is lucky, manages to achieve somewhere in the later seventies.
- PG Wodehouse
The greatest mistake you can make is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
To be enlightened is simply to be absolutely, unconditionally intimate with this moment. No more. No less.
- Scott Morrison
By becoming attached to names and forms, not realising that they have no more basis than the activities of the mind itself, error rises and the way to emancipation is blocked.
-Buddha
In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow - and that is likely to hurt.
- 'Posthumous Pieces' by Wei Wu Wei
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Clarity can exist only when there is freedom to observe, when one is capable of looking, observing, watching. That is only possible when there is complete, total freedom, otherwise there is always distortion in our observation. -
- J. Krishnamurti
Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
- Buddha
Inside every hardened criminal beats the heart of a ten-year-old boy.
- Bart Simpson
The universe may be pointless when measured using human values but this is because the universe didn't come into existence for human enjoyment. Rather, human life adapted to fit pre-existing conditions that the universe already contained. The universe exists independently of human life - the natural order is not anthropocentric. Many times we get the 'wrong' answer because we ask the 'wrong' question. We shouldn’t ask "Why is everything pointless" but instead "Why do we believe it’s pointless?
- Nihilism
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
- Albert Einstein
My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
- Rodney Dangerfield
Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.
- W. Somerset Maugham
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.
- Hansell B. Duckett
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein
All things are difficult before they are easy.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
While the mind may be what traps us in unhealthy patterns of stress and imbalance, it is also the mind which can free us. Through meditation, we can tap the healing qualities of mind.
- Tarthang Tulku
Live your life in happiness, even though those around you lead lives which are unhealthy, and wish to spread their illness to you. Be Happiness itself.
- Buddha
Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert Einstein
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
-Ee Cummings
Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.
- Aldous Huxley
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
-Oscar Wilde
Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
-Woody Allen
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss
When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
-Mark Twain
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
- Woody Allen
What do you have to do? Pack your bags, Go to the station without them, Catch the train, And leave yourself behind.
-Open Secret by Wei Wu Wei
The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
-Sigmund Freud
Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal.
- Gandhi
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God! Your playing small doesn't' serve the world. There's nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson
Traffic is like a bad dog. It isn't important to look both ways when crossing the street. It's more important to not show fear.
-P. J. O'Rourke
Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good empty experience.
-Woody Allen
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
-William Faulkner
I don't always know what I'm talking about but I know I'm right.
-Muhammad Ali
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
- Rita Mae Brown
Day: A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
- Ambrose Bierce
I am not crazy. It's the TV that's crazy. Aren't you, TV.
- Homer Simpson
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
- Margaret Thatcher
Man is the only creature that seems to have the time and energy to pump all his sewage out to sea, and then go swimming in it.
- Miles Kington
I know who I am. No one else knows who I am. If I was a giraffe, and someone said I was a snake, I'd think, no, actually I'ma giraffe.
- Richard Gere
I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom.
- Bob Hope
Money can't buy happiness, but neither can poverty.
- Leo Rosten
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
- Ralph W. Sockman
The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
Play your part in the comedy, but don't identify yourself with your role!
- Why Lazurus Laughed by Wei Wu Wei
From there to here, from here to there, funny things are everywhere... If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
- Dr. Seuss, One Fish two fish red fish blue fish, 1960
Let go of the past! Let go of the future! Let go of the present and cross over to the farther shore of existence. With your mind wholly liberated, you shall come no more to birth and death.
- Buddha
Even he, to whom most things that most people would think were pretty smart were pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
- Walter Winchell
A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
- Unknown
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
- Mark Twain
There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.
- Salvador Dali
Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man.
- Leon Trotsky
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
- Warren Beatty
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett
I don't think I've mastered anything.I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like.
- Harrison Ford
I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
- Babe Ruth
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
- Kenneth Tynan
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
- Mel Brooks
It is less what one is that should matter, than what one is not.
- Wei Wu Wei, "Fingers Pointing Towards the Moon"
It takes a deep commitment to change and an even deeper commitment to grow.
- Ralph Ellison
We have heard so far the voice of life on one small world only. But we have at last begun to listen for other voices in the cosmic fugue.
- Carl Sagan
It's not easy to juggle a pregnant wife and a troubled child, but somehow I managed to fit in eight hours of TV a day.
- Homer Simpson
Last week I stated that this woman was the ugliest woman I had ever seen. I have since been visited by her sister and now wish to withdraw that statement.
- Mark Twain
I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
- Moby
Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science.
- Gary Zukav
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.
- Albert Camus
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
- Noel Coward
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
- Samuel Butler
Peace: In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
- Ambrose Bierce
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- George Bernard Shaw
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust
Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone.
- Tommy Cooper
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
- Hermann Hesse
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
- Samuel Johnson
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
If one synchronised swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?
- Steven Wright
First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
- Honore de Balzac
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?
- Charles M. Schulz
So is it possible to see the limitations of thought and give it its right place, and therefore giving the right place to thought brings about clarity - right? We mean by right place - the art of that intelligence which comes through investigation, through exploration, that art - the very meaning of that word is to put everything where it belongs, put everything in our life where it belongs, and to find out where it belongs you need tremendous intelligence.
- J. Krishnamurti
Who is more busy than he who hath least to do?
- John Clarke
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
- Robert Frost
That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.
- Aldous Huxley
Ambition and anger will disappear when you stop concerning yourself with the fruit of your actions.
- Buddha
In this world the wise one holds onto confidence and wisdom. Those are the greatest treasures; all other riches are pushed aside.
- Buddha
There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being.
- Albert Einstein
Fear less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Hate less, love more; And all good things are yours.
- Swedish Proverb
Things aren't always what they seem. Today is the tomorrow you were waiting for yesterday. Say what you mean and mean what you say. Plan your work and work your plan. Happiness is the way! Success is a journey, not a destination. Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off the road. There is always an opportunity in any disaster. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. We must be the change we wish to see.
- (Mixed Quotes)
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix
We could learn a lot from crayons. Some are sharp. Some are pretty. Some are dull, while others bright. Some have weird names, but they have all learned to live together in the same box.
- Author Unknown
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.
- Bruce Lee
Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi
We can never obtain peace in the world if we neglect the inner world and don't make peace with ourselves. World peace must develop out of inner peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, The Dalai Lama