Thread: What are some of your favourite quotes?

" - The worst mistake you can make is to think that you are alive, when really you're asleep in life's waiting room." - The ukulele guy in Waking life

" The trick, is to combine your waking rational abilities, with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because if you can do that you can do anything." - The ukulele guy in Waking Life

"People can only meet you as far as they have come." -Unknown

"I believe darkness sleeps in every heart, no matter how pure. And if given the chance, even the smallest drop can spread and consume the heart." ~Ansem the Wise (Kingdom Hearts II)

the wound is the place where the light enters you - rumi

no tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell - carl jung

“Sometimes the wrong train can take us to the right place.” ~ Paulo Coelho

I like most of Camus' quotes but I find this one sums everything up nicely.

"One must imagine Sysiphus happy." -Albert Camus

Just yesterday Mismagius and I where discussing another quote in the chat.

"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?" -Albus Dumbledore

"The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain." -Aristotle

Kare Kano: His and Her Circumstances, Vol. 20: 'My dream is to die thinking Wow, that was fun! I'm tired.'

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Did I ever tell you the definition of insanity?" - Vaas

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

from The Sayings of Muad'Dib by the Princess Irulan

"If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors." - Frank Sinatra

"And so it goes." - Kurt Vonnegut in his book Slaughterhouse Five (book about WWII), used as a refrain in the book when instances of death or dying occur.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with - Jim Rohn

A piano might fall on your head, he said, but it also might not. And in the meantime you never know. Something nice might happen.
From the book Just in case by Meg Rosoff

"Whatever the reason, an eye for an eye" ~L (Death Note)

Put all your eggs in one basket and-WATCH THAT BASKET (mark twain puddn head wilson)

The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret. (Umberto Eco)

"Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly." - Franz Kafka

"From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached." - Franz Kafka

"You remember when i said how i was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird. People are always talking about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or somethin, and they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain't no truth. All there is is bullshit, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of bullshit on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is, you pick the layer of bullshit that you prefer and that's your bullshit, so to speak."

Bernie LaPlante, Hero

"Think of a flabby person covered with layers of fat. That is what your mind can become, flabby, covered with layers of fat till it becomes too dull and lazy to think, to observe, to explore, to discover, not wanting to be disturbed or questioned into wakefulness." - Anthony DeMello

"If you would die to the past, if you would die to every minute, you would be the person who is fully alive, because a fully alive person is one who is full of death." - Anthony DeMello

"Agreement alone does not constitute truth."

I read this in a book nearly seven years back. I don't remember the title or the author. It was a friend's book, and I was just flipping through, when I happened to read this sentence out of sheer chance. I've tried to look this up, but to no avail!

"To each their own and in their own time." -Jane Roberts, as Seth. From the Seth Books.

^Nice one. I really love this one by Teal Swan.

"Stop trying to feel better, instead, get better at feeling."