Quotes
Quotes
"Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"
— MARY OLIVER, THE SUMMER DAY
"And Gandalf said: 'Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder. And Aragorn himself waits for a sign.’ "
— J.R.R. TOLKIEN, THE LORD OF THE RINGS — RETURN OF THE KING
"Socrates rejected expediency and the necessity for manipulation that accompanied it. He chose instead under the direst of conditions to maintain his pursuit of the meaningful and the true. 2500 years later, we remember his decision and take comfort from it.
What can we learn from this? If you see these two other falsehoods and live according to the dictates of your conscience, you can maintain your nobility, even when facing the ultimate threat. If you abide truthfully and courageously by the highest of ideals, you will be provided with more security and strength than will be offered by any short-sighted concentration on your own safety. If you live properly - fully - you could discover meaning so profound that it protects you even from the fear of death."
Could all that possibly be true?
— JORDAN B. PETERSON, 12 RULES FOR LIFE, AN ANTIDOTE TO CHAOS
"It’s a general moral principle that the more power you have over someone, the greater your duty is to use that power benevolently. Well, who is the one person in the world you have the greatest power over? It’s your future self. You hold that life in your hands, and what it will be depends on how you care for it."
— RICK HANSON, BUDDHA'S BRAIN
"Do not be afraid of work that has no end."
— AVOT DE RABBI NATAN
"Hard times create strong men, strong men create good times, good times create weak men, and weak men create hard times.
— G. MICHAEL HOPF, THOSE WHO REMAIN (THE NEW WORLD #7)"
“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
― MIYAMOTO MISHASHI, THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS
"God is not found in the soul by adding anything, but by a process of subtraction."
— MEISTER ECKHART
"You are what you think all day long."
— RALPH WALDO EMERSON
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom."
— VIKTOR FRANKL
"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
— NOAM CHOMSKY
"It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him."
— CORMACK MCCARTHY, BLOOD MERIDIAN
"Joe Rogan: 'Youth is wasted on the young.'
Tim Kennedy: 'Especially when you're dumb.' "
— JOE ROGAN AND TIM KENNEDY
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
― ALBERT EINSTEIN
"If you know the way broadly you will see it in everything."
― MIYAMOTO MISHASHI, THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS
"He took a reasonable care of his body’s health, not as one who was greatly attached to life, nor out of regard to personal appearance, nor yet in a careless way, but so that through his own attention he very seldom stood in need of the physician’s art or of medicine or external applications.
And that might be applied to him which is recorded of Socrates,[E] that he was able both to abstain from, and to enjoy, those things which many are too weak to abstain from, and cannot enjoy without excess. But to be strong enough both to bear the one and to be sober in the other is the mark of a man who has a perfect and invincible soul, such as he showed in the illness of Maximus."
― MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS 1.16 — ON HIS FATHER'S HEALTH
“You must understand that there is more than one path to the top of the mountain.”
― MIYAMOTO MISHASHI, THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS
“To know ten thousand things, know one well.”
― MIYAMOTO MISHASHI, THE BOOK OF FIVE RINGS