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The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way. — Keanu Reeves
There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn. — Albert Camus
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. — Henry David Thoreau
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. — Bertrand Russell
Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences. — Robert Louis Stevenson
The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. — Bertrand Russell
The imagination is the golden path to everywhere. — Terence McKenna
It's a rather rude gesture, but at least it's clear what you mean. — Katharine Hepburn
Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you. — Jesus
90 percent of everything is crap. — Theodore Sturgeon
Despair is an irrational position on a battlefield of unknown surprises with an army of unknown power. Keep fighting, and watch and see. — Caitlin Johnstone
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. —Mark Twain
One man's theology is another man's belly laugh. — Robert A. Heinlein
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. — Bertrand Russell
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy
Truth is on the side of the oppressed. — Malcolm X
I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. — Malcolm X
When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. — Leonard Cohen
Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others. — Buddha
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. — Henry David Thoreau
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. — Henry David Thoreau
Attention is energy. What you put your attention on, you get more of. Each one of us is a fountain of energy, a valve through which universal life energy is metered into the world, and we can each point our self at whatever we want to. We add life force to our surroundings—to everything we pay attention to. — Stephen Gaskin
You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes. — Maimonides
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. — Mark Twain
Whether the object of your faith be real or false, you will nevertheless obtain the same effects. Faith produces miracles; and whether it is true or false faith, it will always produce the same wonders. — Philippus Paracelsus
The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell. — Bertrand Russell
When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate. — Carl Jung
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. — Bertrand Russell
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. — Henry David Thoreau
No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man. — Heraclitus
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. — Henry David Thoreau
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. — Henry David Thoreau
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. — E.M. Forster
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it. — John Muir
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. — Henry David Thoreau
Don't take criticism from someone you wouldn't go to for advice.
I think that I am better than the people who are trying to reform me. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso
This possibility to change reality, which exists in everyone, represents the real freedom of every human individual. He has an enormous possibility to change his world view. — Albert Hofmann
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lo, what huge heaps of littleness around! — Alexander Pope
If you could just stay focused on the right things, your life would stop feeling like a reaction to stuff that happens to you and become something that you create: not a series of accidents, but a work of art. — Winifred Gallagher
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell
When we die, we may continue to dream, but because we're dead we can't wake up. —Rupert Sheldrake
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
carries his whole history with him; in his very structure is written the history of mankind. — Carl Jung
To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier. — Walt Whitman
There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. — R. Buckminster Fuller
The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not — which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams. — Carl Jung
It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate. — Henry David Thoreau
Tell the children the truth. — Bob Marley
When people are being unjustly oppressed they should not let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression. — Malcolm X
Your time while asleep, when you leave this house and yet are still attached to it, is to be thought of as a sacred journey that you take daily to connect to the one universal subconscious mind and experience the bewildering wonder of what transpires there. — Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov
A meditative state is pure perception: not being conceptual about the here-and-now. That’s what most Zen discipline is about: not past-tripping, not future-tripping, and not being conceptual in the here-and-now. — Stephen Gaskin
Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself. — Michel de Montaigne
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself. — Alan Watts
Stumbling is not falling. — Malcolm X
Paying attention to what we choose to pay it to is our greatest freedom. — Stephen Gaskin
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths. — Bertrand Russell
If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. — Katharine Hepburn
How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else. — R. Buckminster Fuller
Men have become the tools of their tools. — Henry David Thoreau
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. — John Muir
We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see. — Henry David Thoreau
Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free. — Bertrand Russell
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. — Mark Twain
Have the courage to act instead of react. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. — Carl Jung
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. — Michel de Montaigne
Humor is mankind's greatest blessing. — Mark Twain
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to co-operate. — Margaret Mead
This world is but a canvas to our imagination. — Henry David Thoreau
Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six. — Leo Tolstoy
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. — Lao Tzu
Do not give in too much to feelings. An overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable. — Albert Camus
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. — Henry David Thoreau
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. — Henry David Thoreau
If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. — Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. — Henry David Thoreau
Live the life you've dreamed. — Henry David Thoreau
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well. — Henry David Thoreau
The solutions all are simple - after you have arrived at them. But they're simple only when you know already what they are. — Robert Pirsig
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still. — Henry David Thoreau
The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation. — Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. — Bertrand Russell
One of the highest and Holiest religious experiences that is available to mankind is to get outside your head for a couple of seconds and realize that the sun doesn’t rise and set in your armpit. — Stephen Gaskin
The person who can centre his thoughts and hopes upon something transcending self can find a certain peace in the ordinary troubles of life, which is impossible to the pure egoist. — Bertrand Russell
The most precious resource is time. — Steve Jobs
Many people when they fall in love look for a little haven of refuge from the world, where they can be sure of being admired when they are not admirable, and praised when they are not praiseworthy. — Bertrand Russell
Bad religion is arrogant, self-righteous, dogmatic and intolerant. And so is bad science. But unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. — Rupert Sheldrake
The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I cannot get a dinner to suit my taste, I endeavor to get a taste to suit my dinner. — Washington Irving
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. — Henry David Thoreau
The prime survival tool for hard times is friends. Good friends. Lots of them. — Stewart Brand
I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money. — Pablo Picasso
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool. — Richard P. Feynman
Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. — William Blake
To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. — Alexander Pope
The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there. — Robert Pirsig
One of the reasons for the spiritual practice of non-attachment — trying not to be personally attached about your thing, or pain or whatever happens to you — is so that you school yourself so that nothing can happen to you from the outside that can make you lose your energy, because as long as you have your energy on, you can do it. — Stephen Gaskin
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. — Henry David Thoreau
Unlike religious fundamentalists, scientific fundamentalists do not realize that their opinions are based on faith. They think they know the truth. — Rupert Sheldrake
Nothing is worth more than this day. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We keep passing unseen through little moments of other people's lives. — Robert M. Pirsig
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. — Henry David Thoreau
Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. — Sigmund Freud
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. — Epicurus
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. — Mark Twain
What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me. — Robert Browning
Do you have the patience to wait till your mud settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving til the right action arises by itself? — Lao Tzu
The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory. — Howard Zinn
Quality is the Buddha. — Robert M. Pirsig
The idea is that there is a kind of memory in nature. Each kind of thing has a collective memory. So, take a squirrel living in New York now. That squirrel is being influenced by all past squirrels. — Rupert Sheldrake
It's a helluva start, being able to recognize what makes you happy. — Lucille Ball
Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? — Bob Marley
When I tell the truth, it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those that do. — William Blake
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. — J. R. R. Tolkien
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain
Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible. — Carl Jung
Live out of your imagination, not your history. — Stephen Covey
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you. — Saint Augustine
The sky is the daily bread of the eyes. — Ralph Waldo Emerson