53 Quotes That Will Make You Rethink Everything
1. “Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
2. “I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way,
that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning,
middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment
and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen
next. Delicious Ambiguity.” ― Gilda
Radner
3. “The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers
knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” ― Isaac Asimov
4. “There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we
are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that
life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to
love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love
ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential
to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness
and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.” ― John Lennon
5. “People aren’t either wicked or noble. They’re like chef’s
salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a
vinaigrette of confusion and conflict.” ― Lemony
Snicket
6. “Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they
don’t want..to impress people that they don’t like.” ― Will Rogers
7. “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but
more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw
8. “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance.
To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life
around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To
never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect
strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never
look away. And never, never to forget.” ― Arundhati
Roy
9. “Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man …
living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And
the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do.
And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of
burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and
suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves
you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money.” ― George Carlin
10. “Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books
are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not
surprised some people prefer books.” ― Julian
Barnes
11. “People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their
feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that’s bullshit.
Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and
dangerous. How can they deal with love if they’re afraid to feel? Pain is meant
to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is
something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of
pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling.
Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them,
and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up
for your right to feel your pain.” ― Jim
Morrison
12. “The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone,
but the things you do for others remain as your legacy.” ― Kalu Ndukwe Kalu
13. “There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to
be…” ―John Lennon
14. “Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly
do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too
hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet
will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are
conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which
may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging
to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic
core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life
comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater
joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and
different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your
inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life
that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to
such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty.” ― Jon Krakauer
15. “The real things haven’t changed. It is still best to be
honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple
pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
16. “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you
listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on
television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.” ― Frank Zappa
17. “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our
courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in
pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready.
The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than
enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.” ―Paulo Coelho
18. “I like to keep my issues drawn, it’s always darkest before
the dawn.” ―Florence Welch
19. “Our lives are not as limited as we think they are; the world
is a wonderfully weird place; consensual reality is significantly flawed; no
institution can be trusted, but love does work; all things are possible; and we
all could be happy and fulfilled if we only had the guts to be truly free and
the wisdom to shrink our egos and quit taking ourselves so damn
seriously.” ― Tom Robbins
20. “When two people are under the influence of the most violent,
most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required
to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting
condition continuously until death do them part.” ― George Bernard Shaw
21. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t
resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow
naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu
22. “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see
yourself running with them.” ― Marcus
Aurelius
23. “The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance
is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song
of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and
beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up,
we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is
nothing more; but I want nothing more.” ― Ayaan
Hirsi Ali
24. “There are no random acts…We are all connected…You can no more
separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the
wind…” ― Mitch Albom
25. “If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your
plans.” ― Woody Allen
26. “There is a time for everything, and a season for every
activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to
plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time
to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to
laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones
and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain, a
time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw
away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a
time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and
a time for peace.―Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
27. “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you
may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let
go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The
energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What
is it you would let go of today?” ― Mary
Manin Morrissey
28. “Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a
support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the
bar.” ― Drew Carey
29. “You have wakened not out of sleep, but into a prior dream,
and that dream lies within another, and so on, to infinity, which is the number
of grains of sand. The path that you are to take is endless, and you will die
before you have truly awakened.” ― Jorge
Luis Borges
30. “I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration
were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have
created the new level of living I now enjoy.” ― Anthony Robbins
31. “To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when
they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a
very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy
if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have
been their finest hour.” ― Winston Churchill
32. “His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the
dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the
butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he
became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned
to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he
could only remember when it had been effortless.” ― Ernest Hemingway
33. “Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels
like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in
our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have
also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and
freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then
healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings
and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but
healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our
faces.” ― C. JoyBell C.
34. “We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read
magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow. The nexus of
space and time where you are now is the most immediate sector of your universe,
and if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else,
then you are disempowered, you’re giving it all away to icons, icons which are
maintained by an electronic media so that you want to dress like X or have lips
like Y. This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural
diversion, and what is real is you and your friends and your associations, your
highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And we are told ‘no’,
we’re unimportant, we’re peripheral. ‘Get a degree, get a job, get a this, get
a that.’ And then you’re a player, you don’t want to even play in that game.
You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural
engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash
that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.” ― Terence McKenna
35. “I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want
to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all
the friends I want to see.” ― John
Burroughs
36. “Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I
like to work, read, learn, and understand life.” ― Langston Hughes
37. “Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I
learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content” ― Helen Keller
38. “Fate loves the fearless.” ― James Russell Lowell
39. “I think that we are like stars. Something happens to burst us
open; but when we burst open and think we are dying; we’re actually turning
into a supernova. And then when we look at ourselves again, we see that we’re
suddenly more beautiful than we ever were before.” ― C. JoyBell C.
40. “You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid
it.” ― Goldie Hawn
41. “Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all
those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness,
melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” ―Graham Greene
42. “Walk with the dreamers, the believers, the courageous, the
cheerful, the planners, the doers, the successful people with their heads in
the clouds and their feet on the ground. Let their spirit ignite a fire within
you to leave this world better than when you found it…” ― Wilferd Peterson
43. “People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a
sort of aura of life which bears no relation to true immortality but
through which they continue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when
they were alive. It is as though they were traveling abroad.” ― Marcel Proust
44. “Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to
deal with them.” ― Steve Maraboli
45. “Your cold mornings are filled with the heartache about the
fact that although we are not at ease in this world, it is all we have, that it
is ours but that it is full of strife, so that all we can call our own is
strife; but even that is better than nothing at all, isn’t it? And as you split
the frost-laced wood with numb hands, rejoice that your uncertainty is God’s
will and His grace toward you that that is beautiful, and a part of a greater
certainty, as your own father always said in his sermons and to you at home.
And as the ax bites into the wood, be comforted in the fact that the ache in
your heart and the confusion in your soul means that you are still alive, still
human, and still open to the beauty of the world, even though you have done
nothing to deserve it. And when you resent the ache in your heart, remember:
You will be dead and buried soon enough.” ― P.
Harding
46. “That’s how stories happen — with a turning point, an
unexpected twist. There’s only one kind of happiness, but misfortune comes in
all shapes and sizes. It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory,
unhappiness a story.” ― Haruki Murakami
47. “If other people do not understand our behavior—so what? Their
request that we must only do what they understand is an attempt to dictate to
us. If this is being “asocial” or “irrational” in their eyes, so be it. Mostly
they resent our freedom and our courage to be ourselves. We owe nobody an
explanation or an accounting, as long as our acts do not hurt or infringe on
them. How many lives have been ruined by this need to “explain,” which usually
implies that the explanation be “understood,” i.e. approved. Let your deeds be
judged, and from your deeds, your real intentions, but know that a free person
owes an explanation only to himself—to his reason and his conscience—and to the
few who may have a justified claim for explanation.” ― Erich Fromm
48. “You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But
sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.” ― Ann Brashares
49. “There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond
which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes
when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is
alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist,
caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier,
war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading
the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive
and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.” ― Jack London
50. “Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives
roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky,
and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are
needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. The
bigger the tree, the bigger will be its roots. In fact, it is always in
proportion. That’s its balance.” ― Osho
51. “Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt
in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is
almost unnoticed.” ― Buddha Siddhartha
Guatama Shakyamuni
52. “If you were all alone in the universe with no one to talk to,
no one with which to share the beauty of the stars, to laugh with, to touch,
what would be your purpose in life? It is other life; it is love, which gives
your life meaning. This is harmony. We must discover the joy of each other, the
joy of challenge, the joy of growth.” ― Mitsugi
Saotome
53. “Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect
nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done to me, to feel nothing done against
me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or
despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut
the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of
calmness, when all around and above is trouble.” ― Andrew Murray
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