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
“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
“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
“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.”
— Terry Pratchett
“Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.”
— Russell Brand
“You learn so much by daring to explore what it would feel like to believe the opposite of what one does.”
– Alain de Botton
“There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don’t know we don’t know.”
– Donald Rumsfeld