January 13, 2010

Quotes, Passages, Wake up Calls

-Be honest and unmerciful (Almost Famous)
-To live, to cry, to love, to die . . . what is our purpose
-Have you gain the world but lose your soul (Bhagavad Gita)
-It’s just a matter of time until we lose it all
-Need nothing, enjoy everything
-The soul that holds beauty becomes beautiful (Huston Smith)
-Dying is easy but living is hard
-Our life is consisted of our personal distortion
-We are not promised tomorrow
-Cemeteries are not built for the dead but for the living
-Our life is consisted of our own personal distortion (Deconstructing Harry)
-Am I so greedy for greatness? (Bhagavad Gita)
-The only thing that I regret is I let my love go (Magnolia)
-Laughter is contagious and addictive and sometime the best cure (Bruce)
-That which does not kill me makes me stronger (Nietzsche)
-Iam that
-Nothing outside of me can bring me joy
-No one can take you down without your permission
-Be here now
-He knows peace that has forgotten desire (Bhagavad Gita)
-All we are is the result of what we have thought (Buddha_
-We create our own heaven or hell on this earth
-The denial of death equals the denial of life
-I must remember who and what I always am, have been, and will always be
-The candle that burns twice as bright will only last half as long
-Everything is waiting to be discovered
-Free will is the ability to Fuck up
-I am awake (Buddha)
-The only time things change is when it sucks so bad we can’t stand it
-Tigger method; play when you work & work when you play
-The measure you give will be the measure you get (Matthew 4-7)
-Do not lay up for yourselves on earth where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal (Matthew 4-7)
-Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Let the days own trouble be sufficient for the day (Matthew 4-7)
-Earning a living is life’s means, not life’s end (Huston Smith)
-For where your treasure is, there is your heart (Matthew 4-7)
-1 percent rules the other 99% only with you permission
-Remember to play after the storm
-All we have is right now
-You give meaning to you
-Do you posses your possessions or do they possess you?
-Heaven on earth belongs to those who live life to the fullest
-The tragedy is not that we die but is the fact that we don’t live
-Artists say something new, something not yet familiar (Maya Lin)
-Who sees a face like what it really is, the mirror, the photographer, or the painter (Picasso)
-Did he had passion (Serendipity)
-Every child brought into this world is nature’s attempt to create a perfect human being (Our Town)
-To live a day is human but to enjoy each moment is life
-Love is above all, the gift of oneself
-First ponder then dare (Helmuth Von)
-The head never rules the heart, but just become it’s partner in crime (Mignon McLaughlin)
-Opportunities multiply as they are seized
-Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialect between the two (Octavio Paz)
-The truest expression of a people is in its dances and its music; bodies never lie (Agnes De Mille)
-The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them (Johann Wolfgang)
-A vacation is nothing to do and all day to do it in (Robert Orben)
-You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus
-True love is like a ghost, which everybody talks about and few have seen
-The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking (John Kenneth)
-For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong
-Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get
-Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in (Evan Davis)
-Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim (Graham Greene)
-There is more to life than increasing its speed (Ghandi)
-No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give (French Proverb)
-We know nothing, pure and simple beyond our own complexities (Williams Carlo Williams)
-We are the people our parents warned us about (Jimmy Buffet)
-Nobody really cares if you’re miserable, so might as well be happy (Cynthia Helms)
-Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes (Gandhi)
-If you enjoy what you do, you’ll never work another day in your life (Confucius)
-If you are patient in one moment of anger you will escape a hundred days of sorrow (Chinese Proverb)
-If you want your dreams to come true don’t sleep (Yiddish Proverb)
-Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t (Erica Jang)
-It is not the length of life but depth of life (Emerson)
-The aim of education is knowledge not of facts, but of values (William Inge)
-The heart has its reason which reason does not know (Blaise Pascal)
-Man is a prisoner, enslaved by action, dragged by desire (Bhagavad Gita)
-You can kill a man but you can’t kill an idea (Medgar Everts)
-Habit and routine have an unbelievable power to waste and destroy (Henri De Lubac)
-Make most of yourself, for that is all there is of you (Emerson)
-Gratitude is the heart’s memory (French Proverb)
-Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think (Ayn Rand)
-If I had my life to live again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner (Tallulah Bankhead)
-A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing (Oscar Wilde)
-Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned (Peter Marshall)
-Change your thoughts and you change the world (Norman Vincent)
-It’s not good enough to be good if you have the ability to be better (Alberta Lee)
-Sooner or later I’m going to die, but I’m not going to retire (Margaret Mead)
-Love is like a butterfly, it goes where it pleases and it pleases where it goes
-Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up (Picasso)
-It is impossible to love and to be wise (Francis Bacon)
-Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts (Charles Dickens)
-We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give (Winston Churchill)
-Before I can convince other people, I have to first convince myself
-The strength of photography lies in its ability to evoke a sense of humanity.
-Life is once and forever
-There are no new ideas in the world; there is only new arrangement of things
-Taking pictures means holding your breath with all your faculties focused in capturing fleeting reality. It is then mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy (Henri Cartier Bresson)
-It is written (Paulo Coelho)
-When you want something the entire universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
-You have to take risks. We will only understand the miracle of life fully when we allow the unexpected to happen (Paulo Coelho)
-I am fortunate to have woken up. I am alive. I have a precious human life. I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself. To expand my heart out to others. To achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings (Dalai Lama)
-This too shall pass
-I don’t know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it (Shantaram)
-Seize the day
-Live dangerously
-We stand in the way of our own happiness
-The purpose of education is to learn to think for ourselves
-The harder you work, the luckier you get.
-The longest journey begins with a single step
-What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s the good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies (On the Road)
-You are what you belief yourself to be (Paulo Coelho)
-The true importance of discovery is, above all, in the mind, because it takes us to one of those strange places where the real world and the world of dream become one (Michael Peissel)
-Love simply is (Paulo Coelho)