I am a parent. I don't have the luxury of principles.
-- Mel Gibson, Patriot
Here is the test to find whether your mission on earth is finished. If you're alive, it isn't.
Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. 'Nothing' is the worst thing that can happen to us!
Your friends will know you better in the first minute that you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.
Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.
The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.
Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you do choose to do with them is up to you.
Ayn Rand speaking...
Money will not purchase happiness for the man who has no concept of what he wants; money will not give him a code of values, if he's evaded the knowledge of what to value, and it will not provide him with a
purpose, if he's evaded the choice of what to seek. Money will not buy intelligence for the fool, or admiration for the coward, or respect for the incompetent.
-- Atlas Shrugged
Well... you don't need an Ayn Rand to tell you that. But then she puts it well.
A more lengthy monologue on the topic can be found here .
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
-- Rene Descartes
Just because Nietzsche said something doesn't make it true.
If you love life, don`t waste time, because time is what life is made up of.
-- Bruce Lee
Life is like a shit sandwich and everyday I have to take another bite.
-- James from England!
Imagine those that have an eating disorder!