QUOTES.
These quotes are the most direct way I can explain the philosophies by which I guide my life.
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." -Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
"Be yourself, don't take anyone's shit, and never let them take you alive..." -Gerard Way
"I don't want dancers who want to dance; I want dancers who have to dance." -George Balanchine
"Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity." -R. I. Fitzhenry
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. " -Oscar Wilde
"It is necessary to grow and better oneself by learning from the past, but living in the present should never be forgotten. This balance is of the utmost importance."
"Life is not about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself."
"The air smells wise and tender. It surrounds me without giving me any pressure - like a kind friend. It makes me feel innocent again." -Yoko Ono
"Change in yourself what you cannot in others."
"Daily life is extraordinary." - George Segal
"With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?" - Oscar Wilde
"Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live." - Dorothy Thompson
"To be aware of a single shortcoming in oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in someone else." - H. H. the Dalai Lama
"Years ago, my mother used to say to me--shed say--'In this world, Elwood'--she always called me Elwood--'In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so smart or oh-so pleasant.' Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant." -Elwood P. Dowd (Harvey)
"Life is made of ever so many partings welded together." -Charles Dickens
"He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it." - Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams
"Curiously enough, the only thing that went through the mind of the bowl of petunias as it fell was Oh no, not again. Many people have speculated that if we knew exactly why the bowl of petunias had thought that we would know a lot more about the nature of the universe than we do now." - Hitchhiker's Guide, Douglas Adams
"... He gets down to the end of his life... and he looks back and decides that all those years he suffered- Those were the best years of his life, 'cause they made him who he was. All those years he was happy? You know, total waste. Didn't learn a thing. So, if you sleep until you're 18... Think of the suffering you're gonna miss. I mean high school? High school? Those are your prime suffering years. You don't get better suffering than that." -Frank (Little Miss Sunshine)
"You and i are like a bowl full of strawberries covered in sugar and splashed with cream." -Susie Hartsog
"I'm trying to find myself. If I should get back before I return, please ask me to wait." -on Wells' t-shirt
"Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas." - Paula Poundstone
"It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind." [Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest]
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference." -Elie Wiesel
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." -Marcel Proust
"Nothing great has been accomplished without compassion." -GWF Hegel
"Mais les yeux sont aveugles. Il faut chercher avec le cœur."
(But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart...) -The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry"Quand on a terminé sa toilette du matin, il faut faire soigneusement la toilette de la planète."
(When you've finished getting yourself ready in the morning, you must go get the planet ready.) -The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint ExupérySong lyrics:
"I fell asleep and in my dream I lost hold of your hand. As the season pulls my skin off for me, I hope the flowers will soon be coming to help me. The train was old and full of steam. She walked into the river. But there's not much we can do. When the flowers come, they'll need the sun too."
"Let me take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of london, show you something to make you change your mind."
"Take these broken wings and learn to fly. All your life, you were only waiting for this moment to arise."
"You're staring down the stars, jealous of the moon, you wish you could fly. But you'll stay where you are, there's nothing you can do, if you're too scared to try."
"If the people lived their lives as if it were a song for singing out of light provide the music for the stars to be dancing circles in the night."
"Pluck all the wires from your skin, and toss them to the wind. Open your chest and let me in. I’ll help you mend."
"Why are there so many songs about rainbows and what's on the other side? rainbows are visions, but only illusions. and rainbows have nothing to hide. so we've been told and some choose to believe it. i know they're wrong, wait and see. someday we'll find it. the rainbow connection. the lovers, the dreamers, and me."
"And the seasons they go round and round and the painted ponies go up and down. We're captive on the carousel of time. We cant return we can only look behind from where we came and go round and round and round in the circle game."