Something - Quotes
How do I really feel about the possibility that all my actions, and those of my friends, are ultimately governed by mathematical principles (...)? I can live with that. I would, indeed, prefer to have these actions controlled by something residing in some (...) aspect of Plato`s fabulous mathematical world than to have them be subject to the kind of simplistic base motives, such as pleasure-seeking, personal greed, or aggressive violence, that many would argue to be the implications of a strictly scientific standpoint.
It`s human nature to want to fix what`s broken. We may not be able to replicate exactly what we lost. But in its place will grow something new. It`s a long process, but it happens. Slowly, but surely until we have what we need.
However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at.
The rules of life aren`t always clear. Some rules are unwritten. And just when we think we have a handle on the rules something comes along. Things ain`t never gonna be the same.
When your worst fears are fulfilled when everything you expect is gone, something is still driving us to fix the past or get into the future. When the only thing we should pay attention to is the present. And to the many possibilities of the present.
There`s something about christmas that always throws us back upon ourself, on our memories and wishes, our childhood self, which is always standing wide-eyed with amazement outside the great door behind which the wonder is waiting.
Christmas wakens, whether you want it or not, that eternal desire for the wonderful. And the wonderful is not something you can possess or hold on to, it doesn`t belong to you and yet it is always there like something that is gifted to us.
There is always something left to love. And if you ain`t learned that, you ain`t learned nothing.
The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don`t know anything about.
Happiness isn`t something you experience; it`s something you remember.
Make it a point to do something every day that you don`t want to do. This is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I`d rather lie around. No contest.
The nature of how we are as human beings is that we`re much more interested in being critical rather than praising something.
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us...
I don`t believe that if you do good, good things will happen. Everything is completely accidental and random. Sometimes bad things happen to very good people and sometimes good things happen to bad people. But at least if you try to do good things, then you`re spending your time doing something worthwhile.