It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.
Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. In the end, it's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
The ability to see beauty is the beginning of our moral sensibility. What we believe is beautiful we will not wantonly destroy.
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
We find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, or ever seriously consider them as believable or achievable.
30 Seconds to Mars, A Perfect Circle, Angels and Airwaves, Artic Monkeys, The Ataris, Atreyu, Basement Jaxx, Beck, Ben Folds (Five), Blink 182, The Bloodhound Gang, Bond, Bush, , Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Deftones, Duran Duran, Eminem, Fat Boy Slim, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Ivy, Jack Johnson, Jem, Jet, Jewel, The Killers, Korn, Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Marcy's Playground, Muse, Nine Inch Nails, Our Lady Peace, Placebo, Postal Service, Primitive Radio Gods, Prodigy, Radiohead, Silverchair, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Staind, Sublime, Tegan and Sara, Telepopmusik, Tool, Tupac, The Verve, The Wallflowers, Weezer, and more.
In no particular order: A.I., Akira, Butterfly Effect, 28 Days Later, Confessions of a Dangerious Mind, The Big Lebowski, Being John Malkovich, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Donnie Darko, Silence Of The Lambs, American History X, Requiem For A Dream, The Shining, Shallow Hal, Sin City, Unbreakable, Clerks, Chasing Amy, Dogma, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lost In Translation, 1 Hour Photo, Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich, From Dusk Till Dawn, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Finding Neverland, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Truman Show, Trainspotting.
The Aviator, Schindler's List, The Shawshank Redemption, Star Wars, SE7EN, Good Will Hunting, Training Day, Boondock Saints, V for Vendetta, My Sassy Girl, The Devil Wears Prada, Office Space, Thank You For Smoking, The Departed, Little Miss Sunshine, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa, Pom Poko, The Cat Returns, Babel, The Prestige, The Illusionist, Fast Food Nation, Stranger Than Fiction, Transformers, Ratatouille, Paris Je T'aime, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Sicko, Sideways, Stardust, Once, Brazil, 3:10 to Yuma, No Country for Old Men, Persepolis, Juno, Atonement.
Top Gear, Good Eats, Pushing Daisies, Anthony Bourdain, 24, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Psych, Dead Like Me, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, House, Grey's Anatomy, Knights of Prosperity, Alias, Dr. Who, Ugly Betty, Lost, Dirt, The Riches, Southpark.
The Alchemist, Flowers for Algernon, Eats, Shoots, and Leaves, Catch-22, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, Middlesex, Welcome to the Monkey House, Slaughterhouse Five, 1984, Animal Farm, The Giver, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter, books written by Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game, Speaker of the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind, Ender's Shadow, Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets, Shadow of the Giant.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his or her freedom.