[storm eyes]

"Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished."

Chuck Palahniuk

[MrFlaneur]

Warren Buffett: "I've reluctantly discarded the notion of my continuing to manage the portfolio after my death - abandoning my hope to give new meaning to the term 'thinking outside the box.'"

[Canopus]

"Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid." - John Wayne

"I won't be wronged, I won't be insulted, and I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them." - John Wayne - The Shootist

"we're burnin' daylight"

Proper Planning Prevents Poor Performance

Always drink upstream of the herd

The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back into your pocket

[FrankieWild]

"I don't know nothin' 'bout nobody no more"

[Moxiie]

This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets:
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

W.H. Murray


“"Well," said Pooh, "what I like best -- " and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called”

“Rivers know this: there is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” ~ Winnie the Pooh

[extollere]

"Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Silence is a true friend who never betrays."
Confucius

[Munglik]

“Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Tsar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice.”

- Henry David Thoreau

[SilentRequiem]

Although one of the most quoted and popular philosophers of all time, DIdactylos the Ephebian never acheived the respect of his fellow philosophers. They felt he wasn't philosopher material. He didn't bath often enough or, to put it another way, at all. And he philosophized about the wrong sorts of things. And he was interested in the wrong sorts of thing. Dangerous things. Other philosophers asked questions like: Is Truth Beauty, and is Beauty Truth? and: Is Reality Created by the Observer? But Didactylos posed the famous philosophical conundrum: 'Yes, But What's It Really All About, Then, When You Get Down To It, I Mean Really!

-- Terry Pratchett, Small Gods

[INTJRyan]

"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires." - All around badass and my hometown hero, John Steinbeck

[FrankieWild]

“Imagine, nature being illegal. What have we become?”

[lifesight]

And your doubts an become a good quality if school them. they must grow to be knowledgeable, they must learn to be critical. As soon as they begin something for you ask them why a thing is ugly, demand hard evidence, test them, and you will perhaps find them at a loss and short of an answer, or perhaps mutinous. But do not give in, request arguments, and act with this kind of attentiveness and consistency every single time, and the day will come when instead of being demolishers they will be among your best best workers — perhaps the canniest of all those at work on the building of your life.
—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

I want to appreciate you without judging. Join you without invading. Invite you without demanding. Leave you without guilt.
—Virginia Satir

“To appreciate beauty; to find the best in others;
To leave the world a bit better;
To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I’d like to leave an echo whispering softly down the ways, of happy times and laughing times and bright and sunny days"

[sdfghj]

"If you're going to kick authority in the teeth, you might as well use two feet". - Keith Richards

[Dancingqueen]

I'm weird and you're pretty but we connect, we feel safe, we trust each other
*fart* just testing my theory -Park from House

[Sonntag]

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

[vowsEntente]

a few from Schopenhauer:

There is no happiness on earth to compare with that which a beautiful and fruitful mind finds in a propitious hour in itself.

The surest way of never having any thoughts of your own is to pick up a book every time you have a free moment.

A man can only be himself so long as he is alone, and if he does not love solitude, he will not love freedom, for it is only when he is alone that he is really free.

[nowt]

“For speaking either truth or comfort/ I have no more tongue than a wound.”
--W.S. Merwin

[Mohammad]

‎"I have no idols. I admire work, dedication and competence."
- Ayrton Senna

[SilentRequiem]

“She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet.”

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

[Person056]

honestly, i made this quote myself but i quote it to myself and others consistently so i don't see how this could be discounted:

	The only thing you can change about a person is how you react to them.

[BobtheINTJ]

"We are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is." Kurt Vonnegut quoted in The Denver Post

"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." Economist Howard Scott, quoted in Forbes.com

[aok]

"Confusion is sex"....Sonic Youth

[peaceinwar]

It's difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair

[PatrickBateman]

" What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind - then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be."
Dostoevsky

[MechanicalSun]

"The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of."-Blaise Pascal

[aok]

“Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out of removing burned-on cheese from the grill of the toaster oven.”
― Erma Bombeck