We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing,
while others judge us by what we have aready done.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
-Matsuo Basho
No matter where you go or what you do, you live your
entire life within the confines of your head.
~Terry Josephson
An Innocent world has no need for Gods
one will remain the same until doing so is
greater then the pain of change
Unknown
The sun blocks us from seeing stars that are far greater than itself
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is try
to please everyone."
~Bill Cosby
"To be nobody but yourself, in a world which is doing its best,
night and day, to make you everybody else, means to fight the hardest
battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting."
~e. e. cummings
"Never let your schooling interfere with your education."
Mark Twain
"There's nothing wrong with being different, just don't be average"-
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your
life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
"In seeking happiness for others, you find it in yourself"
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
-Albert Einstein
If you could have one day where none of your actions would matter,
where you could do as you please because you knew that as soon as you woke up
in the morning it would all be erased. What would you do on that day?
Now, think about that one day as being an entire life.
You do as you wish because NOTHING MATTERS when you die. It's erased,
a few traces left in other people's memories, only to be erased when they
too die. That is freedom.
You're not bound by living for another life. You're not bound by living for
another person. You are living solely for yourself. Solely for yourself.
Solely for yourself. For what makes you feel good. That is the maximum freedom
possible in an absurd, meaningless world.
It's exhilarating.
Because two men look out the same prison bars;
One sees mud and the other stars
“Keep your face to the sunshine and you can never see the shadow.”
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.”
“`Freedom’ is just another word for `nothing left to lose’.”
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask,
and he will tell you the truth. ~Oscar Wilde
Don't think you're on the right road just because it’s a well-beaten path.
~Author Unknown
The reward for conformity was that everyone liked you except yourself.
~Rita Mae Brown
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it -
even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your
own common sense. ~Buddha
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
~Henry David Thoreau,
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
