“I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment.”
― Woody Allen, The Illustrated Woody Allen Reader
“I will not be a common man. I will stir the smooth sands of monotony. I do not crave security. I wish to hazard my soul to opportunity.”
― Peter O'Toole
'tis the season
''The best way to spread Christmas cheer, is to sing loud for all to hear.'' - Buddy, the elf (from the movie, ELF)
“The clouds above us join and separate,
The breeze in the courtyard leaves and returns.
Life is like that, so why not relax?
Who can stop us from celebrating?”
― Lu Yu
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"To say that the world is out there, that it is not our creation, is to say, with common sense, that most things in space and time are the effects of causes which do not include human mental states. To say that truth is not out there is simply to say that where there are no sentences there is no truth, that sentences are elements of human languages, and that human languages are human creations. Truth cannot be out there – cannot exist independently of the human mind – because sentences cannot so exist, or be out there. The world is out there, but descriptions of the world are not. Only descriptions of the world can be true or false. The world on its own – unaided by the describing activities of human beings – cannot."---Richard Rorty
“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS
“Let the night take you. Let the stars evaporate into your dreams. Let sleep be the only comfort for you to believe.”
― Anthony Liccione
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“As I noticed feelings and thoughts appear and disappear, it became increasingly clear that they were just coming and going on their own. . . . There was no sense of a self owning them.”
― Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
“We do not belong to this material world that science constructs for us. We are not in it; we are outside. We are only spectators. The reason why we believe that we are in it, that we belong to the picture, is that our bodies are in the picture. Our bodies belong to it. Not only my own body, but those of my friends, also of my dog and cat and horse, and of all the other people and animals. And this is my only means of communicating with them.”
― Erwin Schrödinger, 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism
“All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without the benefit of experience.”
― Henry Miller