Quotes
Lines I've kept — from shows, films, songs, books, and people who said something worth writing down. Roughly in the order I found them.
64 kept · shuffled on every visit
I feel God in this Chili's tonight.
How do we get ahead of crazy if we don't know how crazy works?
I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.
Would I rather be feared or loved? Um, easy — both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me, and I think I proved that today at the dojo.
If you step on my foot, then you've just surrendered your right to tell me how I ought to get you off it.
Just be true to yourself baby; and as sure as the night follows the day, you can be false to no one — always remember that for me honey, OK?
Now I just felt good — good in a childlike way, innocently, in that way where you just like a girl and she likes you and the mere fact of being in each other's presence is enough to make you feel safe.
...the record still sounded good to me in the way that only a record that embodies all the mixed-up hopes, dreams, emotions, lust, swagger, naïveté, arrogance, innocence, and aspiration of a specific, irreproducible youthful moment can sound good. Which is to say, it had the sweet sound of nostalgia in it.
None of us can avoid anger. You can't remove it from the constellation of feelings, but you can understand it. And learn from it.
Because this moment keeps on moving, we were never meant to hold on.
The loneliest sound in the world is other people making love.
...the adult within us needs to keep an eye on the inner child.
To the European it is a characteristic of the American culture that, again and again, one is commanded and ordered to "be happy." But happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue. One must have a reason to "be happy."
Sometimes a weak expression of pity is the deepest act of cruelty.
Parting is all we need to know of hell.
Love is in us. It's deeply embedded in the brain. Our challenge is to understand each other.
Avoiding unhappiness is not the road to happiness.
People who are afraid of death are afraid of life.
Everyone thinks a joke is funny until it's about them.
We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster, that we go bankrupt by the age of 30, and have less to offer each time we start with someone new. But to make yourself feel nothing, so as not to feel anything — what a waste... Right now there's sorrow, pain; don't kill it. And with it the joy you felt.
It was that jarring sensation of unreality, like the first time you see the road go spinning around your windshield in the middle of the car crash.
After all, what is faith if it doesn't endure when we are tested the most?
If your creativity is driven by a desire to get attention, you're never going to be creatively fulfilled.
But if love makes you stupid, you're making me the biggest fool you'll ever find, so make me yours.
The only thing of value my father ever gave me was pain, and you're trying to take that away from me. — Can I?
Which would prove I'm a monster, Arnie? Sacrificing the people I love for the fight? Or walking away from the fight to save the people I love?
I'm cursing the years my ears were untrained in her name.
To imagine is to experience the world as it isn't and has never been, but as it might be.
To fear death, gentlemen, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know.
Anger is a potent spice. A pinch wakes you up, too much dulls your senses.
What is grief, if not love persevering?
Beautiful things don't ask for attention.
He's manipulating me, but that doesn't mean he's not sincere.
I got into this business because I love stories. They comfort us, they inspire us, they create a context for how we experience the world. But also, you have to be careful, because if you spend a lot of time with stories, you start to believe that life is just stories, and it's not. Life is life, and that's so sad, because there's so little time and what are we doing with it?
Intelligence. Nothing has caused the human race so much trouble as intelligence.
And you can call Horsin' Around dumb, or bad, or unrealistic, but there is nothing more realistic than that. You never get a happy ending, cause there's always more show.
When you think you're gonna die yesterday, today is sweet.
[To] think in words without setting those thoughts in stone. [To] use language not to corral the world, but to set it free.
They wrote me off, I ain't write back, though.
The more desperate the case, the more reluctant the donor.
—They said Eva should be apologizing to me, that she has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
The media... is where democracies conduct their civil wars.
What drives some to accrue power where the majority of their compatriots lose, mishandle, or eschew power? Is it addiction? Wealth? Survival? Natural selection? I propose these are all pretexts and results, not the root cause. The only answer can be "There is no 'Why.' This is our nature." "Who" and "What" run deeper than "Why."
When you have everything, you start to have a hard time feeling anything.
Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot.
Never thought I'd see the day where I'd forget me.
I don't really know where my head's at; I just know my heart's not there yet.
To love someone is to listen and empathize, to imagine another as complexly as you imagine yourself.
What if I lived today and thought and felt about myself like I'm gonna feel when I'm 85 looking back at me.
Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits.
True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It's not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress.
True behavior change is identity change. You might start a habit because of motivation, but the only reason you'll stick with one is that it becomes part of your identity.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
You can choose to be better or bitter.
Every lie we tell incurs a debt to the truth.
For it is only by reconciling contradictions that power can be retained indefinitely.
This year I changed in the sense that I didn't.
A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth puts on its shoes.
Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.
Luck is the residue of design.
I know how to swim but I can't float.
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
If I did what I wanted then why do I feel so bad?
You like someone because, and you love someone despite.