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Harrison's quotes

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"You only lose what you cling to."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: buddhism, insightful
69 people liked it

"The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humor, perspective, science
1,005 people liked it

"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
9,171 people liked it

"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it. "
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: dreams
182 people liked it

"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
14,290 people liked it

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
6,896 people liked it

"Without music, life would be a mistake."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: inspirational, music, philosophy
5,446 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
3,616 people liked it

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

tags: humor, scifi
3,225 people liked it

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
3,078 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,316 people liked it

"I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
— Albert Camus

tags: existentialism, greek, happiness, mythology, perspective, philosophy, purpose, sisyphus
50 people liked it

"Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing - right in the hub of the wheel - not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness - that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace."
— Elizabeth Gilbert

tags: peace, spiritual
19 people liked it

"Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion."
— Jon Stewart

tags: absurd, religion
177 people liked it

"A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die."
— Franz Kafka

tags: absurd
100 people liked it

"Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
— Albert Camus

tags: philosophy, truth
63 people liked it

"Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds."
— Douglas Adams

tags: craft, humor, writing
587 people liked it

"Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart."
— Albert Camus

33 people liked it

"Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
— Albert Camus

tags: idleness, inaction, mediocrity
55 people liked it

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: loss
613 people liked it

"It's so hard to forget pain, but it's even harder to remember sweetness.
We have no scar to show for happiness. We learn so little from peace."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Diary)

454 people liked it

"It was in Spain that [my generation] learned that one can be right and yet be beaten, that force can vanquish spirit, that there are times when courage is not its own recompense. It is this, doubtless, which explains why so many, the world over, feel the Spanish drama as a personal tragedy."
— Albert Camus

tags: spain, vanquish, victory, war
10 people liked it

"The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
— Albert Camus

10 people liked it

"I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: pleasure
33 people liked it

"Many of us pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that we hurry past it."
— Søren Kierkegaard

tags: pleasure
9 people liked it

"We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continnue to love a changed person.
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— W. Somerset Maugham

7 people liked it

"Just as one who looks at the sun cannot but fill the eyes with light, so the one who gazes intently into the heart cannot fail to be illumined."
— St. Hesychios the Priest

tags: christianity, contemplation, meditation, mysticism, philokalia, religion
3 people liked it

"Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness."
— George MacDonald

tags: meditation, solitude
7 people liked it

""Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back." "
— the budha

tags: budha, meditation, wisdom
6 people liked it

"To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still."
— J. Krishnamurti

tags: meditation, mind, peace
4 people liked it

"When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: past, philosophy
91 people liked it

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: wisdom
339 people liked it

"Be content with what you have;
rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking,
the whole world belongs to you."
— Laozi

tags: contentment
74 people liked it

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."
— Laozi (Tao Te Ching)

tags: calm, inspirational, nature, order, patience, time
59 people liked it

"At the center of your being
you have the answer;
you know who you are
and you know what you want."
— Laozi

tags: profound
52 people liked it

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
612 people liked it

"...it's like this. Sometimes, when you've a very long street ahead of you, you think how terribly long it is and feel sure you'll never get it swept. And then you start to hurry. You work faster and faster and every time you look up there seems to be just as much left to sweep as before, and you try even harder, and you panic, and in the end you're out of breath and have to stop--and still the street stretches away in front of you. That's not the way to do it.

You must never think of the whole street at once, understand? You must only concentrate on the next step, the next breath, the next stroke of the broom, and the next, and the next. Nothing else.

That way you enjoy your work, which is important, because then you make a good job of it. And that's how it ought to be.

And all at once, before you know it, you find you've swept the whole street clean, bit by bit. what's more, you aren't out of breath. That's important, too... (28-29)"
— Michael Ende (Momo)

tags: zen
10 people liked it

"A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious."
— David Brazier

tags: buddhism, religion, zen
4 people liked it

"Truth suffers from too much analysis."
— Frank Herbert (Dune Messiah)

26 people liked it

"Confine yourself to observing and you always miss the point of your life. The object can be stated this way: Live the best life you can. Life is a game whose rules you learn if you leap into it and play it to the hilt. Otherwise, you are caught off balance, continually surprised by the shifting play. Non-players often whine and complain that luck always passes them by. They refuse to see that they can create some of their own luck.
Darwi Odrade - Chapterhouse: Dune"
— Frank Herbert (Chapterhouse: Dune)

29 people liked it

"I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

21 people liked it

"The gift of words is the gift of deception and illusion."
— Frank Herbert (Children of Dune)

17 people liked it

"We can say that Maud'Dib learned rapidly because his first training was in how to learn. And the first lesson of all was the basic trust that he could learn."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: learning, self-confidence
19 people liked it

"Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic"
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

tags: dune, herbert, order, reality, understanding
15 people liked it

"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. This is as true of humans as it is of gas molecules in a sealed flask. The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who so survive."
— Frank Herbert

tags: dune
12 people liked it

" This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here — the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos."
— Frank Herbert (Heretics of Dune)

7 people liked it

"If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets."
— Frank Herbert (Dune)

5 people liked it

"To be a god can ultimately become boring and degrading. There'd be reason enough for the invention of free will! A god might wish to escape into sleep and be alive only in the unconscious projections of his dream-creatures."
— Frank Herbert

tags: dune, free, god, philosophy, will
4 people liked it