Ray Kuili > Ray's Quotes

“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
― Oscar Wilde

“May you live every day of your life.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

“Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.”
― John Greenleaf Whittier

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

“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

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
― Albert Camus

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”
― C.G. Jung

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“He not busy being born is busy dying.”
― Bob Dylan

“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.”
― E.M. Forster

“Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.”
― Herman Hesse

“When I discover who I am, I’ll be free.”
― Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

“She didn't like everything about her apartment, but she loved the view. In fact, that was one of the main reasons she decided to rent the place despite the price. There was nothing particularly special about it — there must have been thousands of equally affordable units out there with a better view of the New York skyline.
But for her it wasn’t about iconic silhouettes of iconic buildings. Her window was giving her exactly the kind of view of the streets that she liked. Not too far, not too close, with the right mix of buildings nearby and a straight line of an avenue cutting through the city blocks and allowing to see far away. Depending on the mood, she could feel being in the busy crowd below or outside it. Which was just the way she liked it.”
― Ray N. Kuili, Friendship, Guaranteed

“This could be over soon, she thought. Devices without volition. We are used to imitation of sentience, but so far we have never confused it with the original. Until now. When does imitation become good enough to fool us? Has this already happened? And at what point does an imitation realize that it doesn't have to imitate? Or more importantly, when does it gain the capacity to realize anything? And have we already crossed that line?”
― Ray N. Kuili, Friendship, Guaranteed

“There is no art without an artist”
― Ray N. Kuili, The Recluse of Santa Fe

“Another time, a host challenged his notion that art was being hijacked by art critics. “But you can’t be serious, Mr. Williamson,” she said with a smile, spreading her arms in disbelief. “It’s art critics who help us understand the value of art.”
“Do you need a food critic to understand the value of your breakfast?” Herb Williamson asked.”
― Ray N. Kuili, The Recluse of Santa Fe

“Art is a part of the artist’s soul willed into independent existence. That’s why we can take things as different as a drawing, or a dance, or a poem, or a melody and call them all art.”
― Ray N. Kuili, The Recluse of Santa Fe