I'm Richard, and I probably hate you.
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Philosophy
"For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin; real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me, that these obstacles were my life."
-Alfred D. Souza
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
-Charles Schultz
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
-Andre Gide
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
-Albert Einstein
"Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth."
-Ludwig Börne
"How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in life, when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox. One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once life would collapse. There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light."
-Barry Lopez
"The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer."
-Edward R. Murrow
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
-John Lennon
"Oh, heaven, it is mysterious. It is awful to consider that we not only carry a future ghost within us; but are, in very deed, ghosts."
-Thomas Carlyle
"We can discover this meaning in life in three different ways: (1) by doing a deed; (2) by experiencing a value; and (3) by suffering."
-Victor Frankl
"I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning."
-Aleister Crowley
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
-Niels Bohr
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
-Johnny Cash
