Become the change you seek in the world. 
become the change you seek
As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing
- -Jack Kerouac, Book Of Blues, 55th Chourus, Desolation Blues
It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear, on the contrary, that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning.
- Albert Camus
The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.
- Albert Camus
Few are those who can see with their own eyes and hear with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein
Aye, but isn't the man who chooses the bad in some way better than the man who has the good forced upon him?
- Alex (A Clockwork Orange)
Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think.
- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" ( $ ) ( ? )
To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.
- Amos Bronson Alcolt
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts--for support rather than for illumination.
- Andre Lang
Another way in is the other way out; Never doubt where to exit; it is another entrance out.
- Andrew S. Pudliner
it must be funnier to be stoned than to watch people who are stoned
- Anonymous
For example, justice is considered to mean equality, It does mean equality- but equality for those who are equal, and not for all.
- Aristotle
Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.
- Aristotle
We are what we repeatedly do.
- Aristotle
Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Everything is held together with stories. That is all that is holding us together, stories and compassion.
- Barry Lopez
It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
- Bj Palmer
its like a finger, pointing at the moon. if you stare at the finger, you miss all the heavenly glory
- Bruce Lee Enter The Dragon
Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle. You put water into a teapot, and it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash! Be water, my friend.
- Bruce Lee, TAO of Jeet Kune Do
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
- Bucy's Law
you have two ears and only one mouth for a reason
- Buddhist Belief
I'm an idealist: I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
- Carl Sandburg
The only thing required for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
- Castlevania - Symphony Of The Night
How this feels is I'm just another task in God's daily planner: The Renaissance pencilled in for right after the Dark Ages. The Information Age is scheduled immediately after the Industrial Revolution. Then the Post-Modern Era, then The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Famine. Check. Pestilence. Check. War. Check. Death. Check. And between the big events, the earthquakes and tidal waves, God's got me squeezed in for a cameo appearance. Then maybe in thirty years, or maybe next year, God's daily planner has me finished.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Evilwill always triumph over good, because it is dumb.
- Dark Helmet
Buckskin flaps his lips feverishly at the sight of white cubes, unaware that in time, sugar and horses will both become glue.
- David Kerman
To be is to do.
- Descartes
Learning how to stand up is easy. Learning how to stand up after you've fallen down, that is tough.
- Dican
You can never lose what you never had.
- Dican
It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them---the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.
- Dostoyevsky
We must either outlive our friends, you know, or our friends must outlive us; and I see no man that would hesitate about the choice.
- Dr. Samuel Johnson
I don't suffer from insanity but enjoy every minute of it
- Edgar Allan Poe
Everything is but a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allen Poe
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey
There's a part of every living thing that wants to become itself: the tadpole into the frog, the chrysalis into the butterfly, a damaged human being into a whole one. That is spirituality
- Ellen Bass
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, "The Friends of Voltaire" ( $ ) ( ? )
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.
- Francis Picabia
Every civilizaiton must contend with an unconscious force which can block, betray, or countermand almost any conscience intention of the collectivity. (Tleilaxu Theorem)
- Frank Herbert
Do be do be do.
- Frank Sinatra
That which is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Finally consider that even the seeker after knowledge forces his spirit to recognige things against the inclination of the spirit , and often enough also against the wishes of his heart--by way of saying no where he would like to say yes,love, and adore--- and thus acts as an artist and transfigurer of cruelty.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I no longer want to walk on worn soles
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A man who has a why to live for, can bear almost any how.
- From Victor E Frankl , "Man's Search for Meaning" ( $ ) ( ? )
Of all the days that was the one—an age of reason could have begun.
- Galileo, (1564 –1642)
Live simply that other may simply live.
- Gandhi
Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
- Gandhi
Become the change you seek in the world.
- Gandhi
We must be the change we wish to see.
- Gandhi
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated."
- Ghandi
If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.
- Goethe
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.
- Henry David Thoreau
If I have got false teeth, I trust that I have not got a false conscience. It is safer to employ the dentist than the priest to repair the deficiencies of nature.
- Henry David Thoreau
As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way: government, society, and even the sun, moon and stars.
- Henry David Thoreau
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" ( $ ) ( ? )
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.
- Henry David Thoreau, "Walden" ( $ ) ( ? )
Obstacles are those frightful things we see when we take our eyes off our goal.
- Henry Ford
My friends, on the other hand, entrenched themselves more solidly in the little ditch of understanding which they had dug for themselves. They died comfortably in their little bed of understanding, to become useful citizens of the world.
- Henry Miller
I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything. You know, instead of being a man who would say, ‘Well, it’s a rotten system we live under,’ and griping about politics, economics and the social condition, I said, ‘Despite all that, I could have acted differently, I could have come out,’ do you see? And I saw that as being the fault of my own nature, character and temperament. I accepted it, and once I did that, a great weight fell off me. I was liberated. I was able to really enjoy myself.
- Henry Miller
Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
- Henry Rollins
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
- Henry Rollins
The ultimate result of shielding man from the effects of folly is to people the world with fools.
- Herbert Spencer
Time: that which man is always tring to kill, ends in killing him
- Herbert Spencer
Before the beginning of great brilliance and beauty there first must be a period of complete chaos.
- I-Ching
All your nonsenses and truths, your finery and squalid options, combine and coalesce into one noise including laugh and whimper, scream and sigh, forever and forever repeating, in any tongue we care to choose, whatever lessened, separated message we want to hear. The Universe says simply, but with every possible complication, 'Existence' and it neither pressures us nor draws us out, except as we allow. It all boils down to nothing, and where we have the means and will to fix our reference within that flux, then there we are. Let me be part of that outrageous chaos... and I am.
- Ian Banks, "The Crow Road" ( $ ) ( ? )
Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.
- Isaac Asimov
For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.
- J. Wagoner, U.C.B. Mathematics
All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
- Jack Kerouac
to sit back and do nothing is to cooperate with the oppresser
- Jane Elliot
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
- John Cage
As far as consistency of thought goes, I prefer inconsistency.
- John Cage
Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.
- John Fowles, "The Magus" ( $ ) ( ? )
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet
- Kafka
Man will often act and live as though he were apart from his body, as if improving it from the outside.
- Karl Marx
Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
- Lao Tzu
When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you
- Lao-Tzu
If it was so, it might be; and it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
- Lewis Carrol
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.
- Lewis Carroll
The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does, what problems this really solves.
- Ludwig Wittgenstein
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
- Lyall Watson
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Ghandi
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker is sorry.
- Mark Twain
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
- Martin Luther King Jr.
We must all learn to live together as brothers, or we are all going to perish together as fools.
- Martin Luther King Junior
If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, like Shakespeare wrote poetry, like Beethoven composed music; sweep streets so well that all the host of Heaven and Earth will have to pause and say,"Here lived a great sweeper, who swept his job well
- Martin Luther King, Jr., Facing The Challenge Of A New Age
Nothing short of our own errors should offend us. He who can willfully attempt to injure another is an object of pity rather than resentment; while it is a question in my mind if there is enough of a flatterer, a fool, or a liar to offend a whole-souled woman.
- Mary Baker Eddy
Technically, noting exists, and everything does not.
- Max Levin
...Every advance in knowledge brings us face to face with the mystery of our own being."
- Max Planck
Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.
- Neil Gaiman
"According to the Buddha, these are all signs of a false identity: fear, attachment, shame, compulsion and rigidity. Hmmm. I feel like if I didn't have these things, I'd never clean my house. What's up with that?"
- Nerissa Nields
The greatest spiritual truths, with the greatest ability to transform our lives, are often the ones that look superficially like the twisted and sick rantings of a permanently-adolescent mental inadequate.¡±
- Pastor N. Pizzor
As time transcends, you sit alone in your room. You ask yourself... “Exactly why was I put here on earth?” You snicker a little bit, pondering the thought. The more you think about, the less comprehensible it becomes. It is imperative that you understand, there are infinite numbers of people that were put on the Earth for the same reason. To live. People ask, “What’s the meaning of life?” I personally, believe there is NO meaning of life. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if everything was just in imaginary illusion, processed deeply in our barren minds. If there is a meaning of life, was it intended to be left unknown. Left in the shadow, traceless. Or is it there to drive Philosophers and human beings insane, yearning for that grateful answer.
- Quinton Terintino
To have arrived on this earth as a product of a biological accident, only to depart through human arrogance, would be the ultimate irony.
- R. Leakey
The truth is the light and light is the truth.
- Ralph Ellison, "Invisible Man" ( $ ) ( ? )
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A foolish consistecny is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and devines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. he may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow say what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict everything you say today. "Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood." Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Jesus and Socrates and Luther and Copericus and Galileo and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do not go where the path may lead instead go where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate; to have it make some difference that you have lived, and lived well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumber with your old nonsense.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What lies between us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To cross the river of boredom, one must first, hop onto the stone of imagination
- Rensouken
The strength of the genie comes from being in a bottle
- Richard Wilbur In Time, In An Essay On Male Silence
In life men seek to things, exceptance and meaning, while finding only exceptance one can never find meaning, but when one seeks meaning he will be excepted
- Robbie Mcdonald
A man's reach should exceed his grasp; else what's a heaven for?
- Robert Browning
When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom. The walls of my prison crumbled and fell. The dungeon was flooded with light and all the bolts and bars and manacles became dust. I was no longer a servant, a serf, or a slave. There was for me no master in all the wide world, not even in infinite space. I was free--free to think, to express my thoughts--free to live my own ideal, free to live for myself and those I loved, free to use all my faculties, all my senses, free to spread imagination's wings, free to investigate, to guess and dream and hope, free to judge and determine for myself . . . I was free!
- Robert G. Ingersoll
How does a newness come into the world? How is it born? Of what fusions, translations, conjoinings is it made? How does it survive, extreme and dangerous as it is? What compromises, what deals, what betrayals of its secret nature must it make to stave off the wrecking crew, the exterminating angel, the guillotine? Is birth always a fall? Do angels have wings?
- Salman Rushdie, "The Satanic Verses" ( $ ) ( ? )
when living life becomes a chore, you should think about those who are grounded to their graves.
- Santiago
Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
- Sartre
Leaves of inquisitevness floating on winds of doubt fall on an ignorant ground.
- Scott Steen
A day without sunshine is, you know, night.
- Shannon
My advice to you is to get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy: if not, you'll become a philosopher
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
He who is not contented with what he has, will not be contented with what he doesn't have.
- Socrates
"I didn't expect you to understand me," he answered. "With your cold American intelligence you can ony adopt the critical attitude. Emerson and all that sort of thing. But what is criticism? Criticism is purely destructive; anyone can destroy, but not everyone can build up. You are a pedant, my dear fellow. The important thing is to construct: I am constructive; I am a poet."
- Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage" ( $ ) ( ? )
In my end is my beginning.
- T.S. Eliot
See, I think we have to ask ourselves--and this is corny in a way--what are we doing here. And I've become convinced, after a lifetime of asking that question,that we are here to enlarge our souls, light up our brains, and liberate our spirits.
- Tom Robbins
I don't want to die without scars
- Tyler Durden
True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others.
- Voltaire
To do is to be.
- Voltaire
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire
I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
- Walt Whitman
"There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can count, and those who can't"
- Warren Buffet
If the doors of perception were to be cleansed man would see everything as it truly is... Infinite.
- William Blake
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
- William James
There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.
- Yamamoto Tsunetomo
There are three kinds of people - those who can count and those who can't.
- Yogi Berra
You can have anything you want in this life, as long as you help enough other people get what they want.
- Zig Ziggler
no one, not even the rain has such small hands
- ee cummings
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