Quotes

[Zadius Sky]

Our everyday, traditional ideas of reality are delusions which we spend substantial parts of our daily lives shoring up, even at the considerable risk of trying to force facts to fit our definition of reality instead of vice versa. And the most dangerous delusion of all is that there is only one reality.

From How Real Is Real? by Paul Watzlawick (1976).

 

[Mal7]

The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure love shows itself.

- Moliere, French playwright (1622-1673).

 

[Rich]

“Humans are capable of so much more. Power mongers like you have stripped away what is most valuable to us, the importance of our heritage and family values. We have been robbed of this, blinded by your authority, while you encourage us to burry ourselves in debt and rely on our corrupt governments. Men and women around the world have been forced to work long hours to keep up with inflated debts, all the while abandoning the families they struggle to support. History repeats, and repeats. It’s time to break the cycle and start anew.”
― Aaron B. Powell, Doomsday Diaries IV: Luke and the Lion

 

[Gertrudes]

This one is going to be pinned on my study room's wall:

"We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals;
others, by their acts."

Quote by Harold Nicolson

 

[andi]

Thanks Gertrudes, I was thinking about it since yesterday and it is true as far as I can see. It's probably going on my top list as well.

 

[Gertrudes]

Thanks Gertrudes, I was thinking about it since yesterday and it is true as far as I can see. It's probably going on my top list as well.

Good one, isn't it?



This one is by an unknown author:

"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."

 

[Mal7]

How about

"Love: The only thing you can keep on giving, and yet never run out of."

 

[Zadius Sky]

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.

- Aldous Huxley, Texts & Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

 

[Mal7]

Freud’s ideas on human psychology were profoundly misogynistic, misanthropic, and the product of a deeply pathological mindset. That one man should come up with such ideas is not unusual. That such a man should be revered and eulogized by academia for much of the following century is a grave indictment of humanity. That’s one small stumble for a man, one giant pratfall for mankind.

- Mal7.

 

[Zadius Sky]

I just read this under the bottle cap of my black tea bottle (Honest Tea brand):

When you re-read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.

- Clifton Fadiman

I think this could be applied to all books that one reads.

 

[whitecoast]

Don't be afraid to fail.

[Don't know whose but heard it in motivation video said by Arnold Schwarzenegger]

This reminds me of a very helpful lesson my parkour instructor told me, which was: "commit to the jump."
It means being faithful and confident in your whole body and its ability to overcome all obstacles presented it. It also helped teach me what true faith in oneself felt like.

 

[sacriface]

"If you cannot take care of your home, then perhaps you do not deserve one."
~Pleiadians

 

[Gertrudes]

By an unknown author:

"The best way to get something done is to begin."

 

[Zadius Sky]

Do what you can,
with what you have,
where you are.

- Theodore Roosevelt

 

[Lycan]

"Too many people hold the idea that psychopaths are essentially killers or convicts. The general public hasn't been educated to see beyond the social stereotypes to understand that psychopaths can be entrepreneurs, politicians, CEOs and other successful individuals who may never see the inside of a prison."