QUOTATIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A GOOD LIFE

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Samuel R. Delany

If you’re going to do something stupid—and we all do—it might as well be a brave and foolish thing.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Everything in life is speaking in spite of its apparent silence.

B.B. King

The beautiful thing about learning is that nobody can take it away from you.

Alan Bennett

Standards are always out of date. That is what makes them standards.

Aldous Huxley

Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Henry Miller

In simplifying our lives, everything acquires a significance hitherto unknown. When we are one with ourselves the most insignificant blade of grass assumes its proper place in the universe. One thing becomes just as important as another, one person as good as another. Lowest and highest become interchangeable. The own precious self gets swallowed up…

Yahia Lababidi 

Like cars in an amusement park, our direction is often determined through collisions.

Stephen King

The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn’t real. I know that, and I also know that if I’m careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle.

Eugène Ionesco

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Roald Dahl

Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

William S. Burroughs

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive.

Gabriel García Márquez

There is always something left to love.

D.T. Suzuki

Zen is a floating cloud… unattached.

Pat Enkyō O'Hara

When we are willing to be intimate with what actually is here now, to look directly at all of our experience, we might recognize that this is our life, however different from our thoughts and ideas about it.

Sir Arthur Stanley Eddington

I believe there are 15,747,724,136,275,002,577,605,653,961,181,555,468,044,717,914,527,116,709,366,231,425,076,185,631,031,296 protons in the universe and the same number of electrons.

Kurt Vonnegut

“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” But what else is life but endless lending and borrowing, give and take?

Sarah Bernhardt

What would life be without art? Science prolongs life. To consist of what—eating, drinking, and sleeping? What is the good of living longer if it is only a matter of satisfying the requirements that sustain life? All this is nothing without the charm of art.

Will Durant

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.

Shunryu Suzuki

Renunciation is not giving up the things of the world, but accepting that they go away.

Fernando Pessoa

Things are the only hidden meaning of things.

Steve Jobs

Be honest with yourself and with people. Be punctual, never give up, achieve your goals even when everything goes bad.

Art Buchwald

Whether it’s the best of times or the worst of times, it’s the only time we’ve got.

Neils Bohr

No, no, you are not thinking, you are just being logical.

Oscar Wilde

People who count their chickens before they’re hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it’s impossible to count them accurately.

Bill Watterson

Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.

Michael O'Donoghue

Life is one big minefield, and the only place that isn’t a minefield is the place they make the mines.

Carl Jung

Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer…. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains.

Werner Herzog

Coincidences always happen if you keep your mind open.

Oscar Wilde

The final mystery is oneself … who can calculate the orbit of his own soul? 

Charlotte Joko Beck

Awareness is our true self; it’s what we are. So we don’t have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness, with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgements. We’re either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we’re doing something else.