words of wisdom that may bring a smile

[My Ass]

"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars." - Mike Tyson

[Eggtato]

"I'm a dreamer. I have to dream and reach for the stars." - Mike Tyson

That font killed my eyes

[My Ass]

That font killed my eyes

hehe better that light pink

[Phobia]

We'll try to cooperate fully with the IRS, because, as citizens, we feel a strong patriotic duty not to go to jail. ~ Dave Barry

[Birdman]

Real eyes, realize, real lies.

[Mr.Karizmatic]

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
 

[Raskin]

try not to be so disingenderous....

[Birdman]

Clapping is basically just hitting yourself repeatedly because you like something.

[SunLight]

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this one was the wisest

[bo0m]

Hhh:D

[bo0m]

Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they’ll turn out.

Randall Munroe

Many people die at 25, and aren't buried until 75.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Søren Kierkegaard

Beware the barrenness of a busy life.

Socrates

Life is beautiful, as long as it consumes you. When it is rushing through you, destroying you, life is gorgeous, glorious. It’s when you burn a slow fire and save fuel, that life’s not worth having.

D. H. Lawrence

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re alive, it isn’t.

Richard Bach

If you try, you risk failure. If you don’t, you ensure it.

Anonymous

Let life be an adventure. Live your life to the fullest, unfettered by fear of the ghosts and goblins of what might occur. Calamity and death happen as well to those who hide from life as to those who squeeze every drop of zest from it.

Jonathan Lockwood Huie

So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life’s a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.

Marilyn Monroe

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.

Albert Einstein

Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.

Emily Dickinson

If you do what you need, you’re surviving. If you do what you want, you’re living.

Unknown

One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.

John Green

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

Henry David Thoreau

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.

Benjamin Franklin

Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, you ought to set up a life you don’t need to escape from.

Seth Godin

Live today, for tomorrow it will all be history.

Anonymous

Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass… It’s about learning to dance in the rain.

Vivian Greene

If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are at peace you are living in the present.

Lao Tzu

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

Soren Kierkegaard

Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Jack London

T.S. Eliot Inspirational Quote

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

Marcus Aurelius

The best time to plant a tree is twenty-five years ago. The second best time is today.

Unknown

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Thomas A. Edison

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

E. E. Cummings

Ferris Beuller's Life Advice

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Pablo Picasso

Be so good they can’t ignore you.

Steve Martin

Oscar Wilde - Be yourself

Variety’s the very spice of life that gives it all its flavour.

William Cowper

Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.

Forrest Gump

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Mark Twain

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

John Lennon

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Socrates

What if a demon were to creep after you one night, in your loneliest loneliness, and say, ‘This life which you live must be lived by you once again and innumerable times more; and every pain and joy and thought and sigh must come again to you, all in the same sequence. The eternal hourglass will again and again be turned and you with it, dust of the dust!’ Would you throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse that demon? Or would you answer, ‘Never have I heard anything more divine’?

Friedrich Nietzsche

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.

Albert Einstein

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.

 

Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.

 

Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.

Martin Luther King Jr

Better to burn out than fade away

The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.

Marjorie Pay Hinckley

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

Rilke

When I was 5 years old my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when i grew up. I wrote down “Happy”. They told me i didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

John Lennon

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Kurt Vonnegut

Find what you love and let it kill you

The most common form of despair is not being who you are.

Søren Kierkegaard

Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs quote about living life to the fullest.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Bruce Lee

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Anais Nin

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life

Omar Khayyam

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I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘if this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’

Kurt Vonnegut

We all die. The goal isn’t to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

Chuck Palahniuk

Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting HOLY CRAP… WHAT A RIDE!

Hunter S Thompson

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.

Jack London

Happiness by Walt Whitman

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the death rate is 100%.

R.D Laing

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Albert Einstein

 

Life is short, break the rules. Forgive quickly, kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably and never regret anything that makes you smile.

Mark Twain

Let everything happen to you

Beauty and terror

Just keep going

No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke

I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives and to the ‘good life’ whatever it is & wherever it happens to be.

Hunter S. Thompson

Love the life you live, and live the life you love.

Bob Marley

Inspirational Quote by Walter Bagehot

You’re not your job. You’re not how much money you have in the bank. You’re not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You’re not your f***ing khakis. You’re the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world.

Tyler Durden

Enjoy life! This is not a rehearsal.

Anonymous

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.

Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.

Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you win false friends and true enemies.

Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.

Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.

Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.

Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.

Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.

Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.

Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth.

Give the world the best you have anyway.

Mother Theresa

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Emily Dickinson

Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

Carl Sagan

Someday, somewhere – anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life.

Pablo Neruda

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Unknown

If you don’t build your dream someone will hire you to help build theirs.

Tony Gaskins

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[RedAngel]

Life always offers you a second chance, it's called tomorrow.

[tipsy]

Very nice collection  boom, I went through few.. I will read rest later

[Phobia]

When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting

[bo0m]

There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

Neil Gaiman, The Books of Magic

 

 

Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina

 

About once or twice every month I engage in public debates with those whose pressing need it is to woo and to win the approval of supernatural beings. Very often, when I give my view that there is no supernatural dimension, and certainly not one that is only or especially available to the faithful, and that the natural world is wonderful enough—and even miraculous enough if you insist—I attract pitying looks and anxious questions. How, in that case, I am asked, do I find meaning and purpose in life? How does a mere and gross materialist, with no expectation of a life to come, decide what, if anything, is worth caring about?

 

Depending on my mood, I sometimes but not always refrain from pointing out what a breathtakingly insulting and patronizing question this is. (It is on a par with the equally subtle inquiry: Since you don't believe in our god, what stops you from stealing and lying and raping and killing to your heart's content?) Just as the answer to the latter question is: self-respect and the desire for the respect of others—while in the meantime it is precisely those who think they have divine permission who are truly capable of any atrocity—so the answer to the first question falls into two parts. A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part in battles for the liberation of others cannot be called 'meaningless' except if the person living it is also an existentialist and elects to call it so. It could be that all existence is a pointless joke, but it is not in fact possible to live one's everyday life as if this were so. Whereas if one sought to define meaninglessness and futility, the idea that a human life should be expended in the guilty, fearful, self-obsessed propitiation of supernatural nonentities… but there, there. Enough.

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

 

Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.

.Primo Levi

 

There will come a time when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are no human beings remaining to remember that anyone ever existed or that our species ever did anything. There will be no one left to remember Aristotle or Cleopatra, let alone you. Everything that we did and built and wrote and thought and discovered will be forgotten and all of this will have been for naught. Maybe that time is coming soon and maybe it is millions of years away, but even if we survive the collapse of our sun, we will not survive forever. There was time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it. God knows that’s what everyone else does.

John Green, The Fault in Our Stars

 

Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

 

I don’t want to be little again. But at the same time I do. I want to be me like I was then, and me as I am now, and me like I’ll be in the future. I want to be me and nothing but me. I want to be crazy as the moon, wild as the wind and still as the earth. I want to be every single thing it’s possible to be. I’m growing and I don’t know how to grow. I’m living but I haven’t started living yet. Sometimes I simply disappear from myself. Sometimes it’s like I’m not here in the world at all and I simply don’t exist. Sometimes I can hardly think. My head just drifts, and the visions that come seem so vivid.

David Almond, Jackdaw Summer

 

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to resort to sophistries so obvious that their whole case takes on an air of the ridiculous. Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions. It is often argued in support of this or that one that men are so devoted to it that they are willing to die for it. That, of course, is as silly as the Santa Claus proof. Other men are just as devoted to manifestly false religions, and just as willing to die for them. Every theologian spends a large part of his time and energy trying to prove that religions for which multitudes of honest men have fought and died are false, wicked, and against God.

H.L. Mencken, Minority Report

 

We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought.

Thomas Bernhard, Extinction

 

Are we our bodies? Is a small person less than a big person, then? If we were our bodies, then when we lost an arm, or a leg, would we be less, would we begin to fade from existence? No. We are the same person.

 

We are not our bodies; we are our thoughts. As they form, they define who we are, and create the reality of our existence.

Terry Goodkind, Blood of the Fold (Sword of Truth, #3)

 

What is this thing called life? I believe

That the earth and the stars too, and the whole glittering universe, and rocks on the mountains have life,

Only we do not call it so--I speak of the life

That oxidizes fats and proteins and carbo-

Hydrates to live on, and from that chemical energy

Makes pleasure and pain, wonder, love, adoration, hatred and terror: how do these things grow

From a chemical reaction?

I think they were here already, I think the rocks

And the earth and the other planets, and the stars and the galaxies

have their various consciousness, all things are conscious;

But the nerves of an animal, the nerves and brain

Bring it to focus; the nerves and brain are like a burning-glass

To concentrate the heat and make it catch fire:

It seems to us martyrs hotter than the blazing hearth

From which it came. So we scream and laugh, clamorous animals

Born howling to die groaning: the old stones in the dooryard

Prefer silence; but those and all things have their own awareness,

As the cells of a man have; they feel and feed and influence each other, each unto all,

Like the cells of a man's body making one being,

They make one being, one consciousness, one life, one God.

Robinson Jeffers, The Selected Poetry

 

Tell me something. Do you believe in God?'

 

Snow darted an apprehensive glance in my direction. 'What? Who still believes nowadays?'

 

'It isn't that simple. I don't mean the traditional God of Earth religion. I'm no expert in the history of religions, and perhaps this is nothing new--do you happen to know if there was ever a belief in an...imperfect God?'

 

'What do you mean by imperfect?' Snow frowned. 'In a way all the gods of the old religions were imperfect, considered that their attributes were amplified human ones. The God of the Old Testament, for instance, required humble submission and sacrifices, and and was jealous of other gods. The Greek gods had fits of sulks and family quarrels, and they were just as imperfect as mortals...'

 

'No,' I interrupted. 'I'm not thinking of a god whose imperfection arises out of the candor of his human creators, but one whose imperfection represents his essential characteristic: a god limited in his omniscience and power, fallible, incapable of foreseeing the consequences of his acts, and creating things that lead to horror. He is a...sick god, whose ambitions exceed his powers and who does not realize it at first. A god who has created clocks, but not the time they measure. He has created systems or mechanisms that serves specific ends but have now overstepped and betrayed them. And he has created eternity, which was to have measured his power, and which measures his unending defeat.'

 

Snow hesitated, but his attitude no longer showed any of the wary reserve of recent weeks:

 

'There was Manicheanism...'

 

'Nothing at all to do with the principles of Good and Evil,' I broke in immediately. 'This god has no existence outside of matter. He would like to free himself from matter, but he cannot...'

 

Snow pondered for a while:

 

'I don't know of any religion that answers your description. That kind of religion has never been...necessary. If i understand you, and I'm afraid I do, what you have in mind is an evolving god, who develops in the course of time, grows, and keeps increasing in power while remaining aware of his powerlessness. For your god, the divine condition is a situation without a goal. And understanding that, he despairs. But isn't this despairing god of yours mankind, Kelvin? Is it man you are talking about, and that is a fallacy, not just philosophically but also mystically speaking.'

 

I kept on:

 

'No, it's nothing to do with man. man may correspond to my provisional definition from some point of view, but that is because the definition has a lot of gaps. Man does not create gods, in spite of appearances. The times, the age, impose them on him. Man can serve is age or rebel against it, but the target of his cooperation or rebellion comes to him from outside. If there was only a since human being in existence, he would apparently be able to attempt the experiment of creating his own goals in complete freedom--apparently, because a man not brought up among other human beings cannot become a man. And the being--the being I have in mind--cannot exist in the plural, you see? ...Perhaps he has already been born somewhere, in some corner of the galaxy, and soon he will have some childish enthusiasm that will set him putting out one star and lighting another. We will notice him after a while...'

 

'We already have,' Snow said sarcastically. 'Novas and supernovas. According to you they are candles on his altar.'

 

'If you're going to take what I say literally...'

 

...Snow asked abruptly:

 

'What gave you this idea of an imperfect god?'

 

'I don't know. It seems quite feasible to me. That is the only god I could imagine believing in, a god whose passion is not a redemption, who saves nothing, fulfills no purpose--a god who simply is.

Stanisław Lem, Solaris