“We men ask ourselves and each other for the following: the right to be vulnerable, to be uncertain, to be wrong, to be intuitive, the right not to know, to be flexible and not to be ashamed.”
– Grayson Perry
Author: SS
My good friends tell me I'm genuine, kind, intelligent, wise, and funny. But I wouldn't take their word for it, they're mainly idiots (an example of me trying to be funny).
"I contain multitudes"
- Walt Whitman
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), recieved a university professor who came to inqure about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he could no longer restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your up?”
― Nyogen Senzaki
“I don’t think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.”
– Norman Mailer
“Life is never so bad that it can’t get worse.”
– Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“But he who cannot reveal himself cannot love, and he who cannot love is the most unhappy man of all.”
– Soren Kierkegaard
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Do whatever – Unknown
“You have to do, whatever you can’t not do.”
– Unknown
“For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.”
– Tom McNeal
“I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.”
― Steve Maraboli
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
– Stephen Chbosky
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Throw your heart – Arab proverb
“Throw your heart out in front of you and run ahead to catch it.”
– Arab proverb
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.”
― Unknown
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Old person — Terry Pratchett
“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
— Terry Pratchett
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Murderers — Russell Brand
“Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.”
— Russell Brand
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Believe the opposite – Alain de Botton
“You learn so much by daring to explore what it would feel like to believe the opposite of what one does.”
– Alain de Botton