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BEAUTY 29
And the world says: You are here. You are here. You are here.
Gratitude turns what we have into enough.
Pourquoi faudrait-il aimer rarement pour aimer beaucoup?
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
I don’t have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it’s right in front of me if I’m paying attention and practicing gratitude.
I am just a tiny speck in an infinite sea of stars.
A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.
Beauty is everywhere, not everyone sees it.
Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul, and sings the tune without the words, and never stops at all.
Music is the only religion that delivers the good.
Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly?
What is this precious love and laughter budding in our hearts? It is the glorious sound of a soul waking up!
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
Death is nothing at all. It does not count. I have only slipped away into the next room.
It is not down on any map; true places never are.
There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.
Many people wish to be poets because they wish to wear the title, but one should wish to celebrate more than one wishes to be celebrated.
Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?
Why not let the soft animal of your body love what it loves?
Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it.
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility.
We are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.
I am rooted, but I flow.
To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wildflower.
EGO 6
America, when will you be angelic? When will you take off your clothes?
Not all cowards are hypocrites, but(t) all hypocrites are cowards.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest.
Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.
FOOLERY 18
Play is the highest form of research.
The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
Don’t be afraid to look silly. It might free you.
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
I’d rather be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
Laughter is the sound of the soul dancing.
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Life must be lived as play.
What is success? To laugh often and much.
This is not a pipe.
I did the math, and everything is stupid.
Humor is a weapon of mass construction.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
INJUSTICE 16
The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes—but right through every human heart.
We live not by lies.
I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.
A nation will not survive morally or economically when so few have so much and so many have so little.
The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
America is a circus, full of clowns and freaks parading themselves as serious leaders
The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
If voting mattered, they wouldn't let us do it.
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
They muddy the waters to make it seem deep.
It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.
The most potent weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
In America, the President reigns for four years.
KNOWLEDGE 5
Most ignorance is evincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf.
There are years that ask questions and years that answer.
PEACE 10
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
We are born in a moment of brilliance, and we flow with the universe like a dance.
Wanderer, there is no path, the path is made by walking.
Be water, my friend.
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
Happiness can exist only in acceptance.
He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Life is a balance of holding on and letting go.
POOLITICS 1
The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
RELIGION 2
Hell is empty, and all the devils are here.
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.
TRUTH 17
The evil that is in the world almost always comes from ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don’t know.
All I really know is I dunno shit about fck.
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
La fin ne justifie pas les moyens.
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
It's easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
Ignorance is the root and stem of all evil.
When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.
Never mind the bollocks.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.
Ur-Fascism is still around us, sometimes in plainclothes.
WISDOM 32
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
There is always light. If only we’re brave enough to see it. If only we’re brave enough to be it.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly.
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality.
To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it’s thinking of yourself less.
Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
In heaven, all the interesting people are missing.
Beauty will save the world.
It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.
Existence precedes essence.
Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.
Remember the earth whose skin you are... Remember to dance.
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
I don’t know if I found my way, but I have walked enough to see that it’s all worth it.
The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Before you learn the gravity of kindness, you must travel where sorrow lies.
One man with courage is a majority.
You are the sky. Everything else–it’s just the weather.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.
What is to give light must endure burning.
To love is to act.
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.