It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
— Buddah
Category: Quotes
Billie Say
I lie for you
I cry for you
I lay down and die for you
Until the real thing comes along.
Anne Rice on Being a Christian
I quit being a Christian. I’m out. In the name of Christ, I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-feminist. I refuse to be anti-artificial birth control. I refuse to be anti-Democrat. I refuse to be anti-secular humanism. I refuse to be anti-science. I refuse to be anti-life. In the name of Christ, I quit Christianity and being Christian. Amen.
Fatlip Wisdom
You’ll never be free runnin’ from reality.
Buddah Loves You
Hatred does not cease through hatred at any time.
Hatred ceases through love. This is an unalterable law.— Buddha
Adverse Reinforcement
It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his livelihood depends on him not understanding it.
Worldview Remedy
We will have to shift from the materialistic, dualistic belief that people and the environment are separate, toward a new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality in which people feel their oneness with animate nature and all of creation.
日本諺
Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
— Japanese proverb
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents evenutally die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
Work and Boredom
Work and boredom.- Looking for work in order to be paid: in civilized countries today almost all men are at one in doing that. For all of them work is a means and not an end in itself. Hence they are not very refined in their choice of work, if only it pays well. But there are, if only rarely, men who would rather perish than work without any pleasure in their work. They are choosy, hard to satisfy, and do not care for ample rewards, if the work itself is not the reward of rewards. Artists and con-templative men of all kinds belong to this rare breed, but so do even those men of leisure who spend their lives hunting, traveling, or in love affairs and adventures. All of these desire work and misery if only it is associated with pleasure, and the hardest, most difficult work if necessary. Otherwise, their idle-ness is resolute, even if it spells impoverishment, dishonor, and danger to life and limb. They do not fear boredom as much as work without pleasure; they actually require a lot of boredom if their work is to succeed. For thinkers and all sensitive spirits, boredom is that disagreeable “windless calm” of the soul that precedes a happy voyage and cheerful winds. They have to bear it and must wait for its effect on them. Precisely this is what lesser natures cannot achieve by any means. To ward off bore-dom at any cost is vulgar, no less than work without pleasure.
Exerpt from The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche