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I don’t mind being called a liar. I am. I am a marvelous liar. But I hate being called a liar when I’m telling the perfect truth.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It’s the questions we can’t answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he’ll look for his own answers.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:03 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Songs choose their hour and their own season. When your tune’s tin, there is a reason. The tone of a tune is your heart’s mettle, and there’s no clear water from a muddy well. All you can do is let the silt settle, or you’ll sound sour as a broken bell.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:02 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
So yes. It had flaws, but what does that matter when it comes to matters of the heart? We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing Because. That’s as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something Despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.
Speaker: Patrick RothfussSource: the Wise Man's FearPosted: 11 Jul 2011 at 8:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Success in life is directly proportional to the number of awkward conversations you’re willing to have.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 28 Jun 2011 at 5:43 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:42 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is preoccupation with possession, more than anything else, that prevents men from living freely and nobly.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellSource: http://zenhabits.net/own/Posted: 27 Jun 2011 at 6:41 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two kinds of people: those who finish what they start and so on.
Speaker: Robert ByrnePosted: 05 Apr 2011 at 8:01 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
There are two mistakes on can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting
Speaker: BuddhaPosted: 05 Apr 2011 at 7:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 05 Apr 2011 at 7:58 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you never venture outside the box, you will probably not be creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will certainly be stupid
Speaker: Christopher PetersonPosted: 08 Nov 2010 at 12:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving
Speaker: Lao TzuSource: http://zenhabits.net/light-life/Posted: 29 Oct 2010 at 8:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. “The Magic Flute” vs. 'Middlemarch?’ 'Middlemarch’ in six. “The Last Supper” vs. 'Crime and Punishment?’ Fyodor on points. See? I mean, I don’t know how scientific this is, but it feels like the novels are walking it. You might get the occasional exception- “Blonde on Blonde” might mash up 'the Old Curiosity Shop,’ say, and I wouldn’t give much for 'Pale Fire’s’ chances against 'Citizen Kane.’ And every now and again you’d get a shock, because that happens in sport, so 'Back to the Future III’ might land a lucky punch on 'Rabbit, Run;’ but I’m still backing literature twenty-nine times out of thirty.
Speaker: Nick HornbySource: the Polysyllabic SpreePosted: 17 Oct 2010 at 7:39 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”
Speaker: Brandon SandersonSource: the Well of AscensionPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:52 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It seems to me a lot of trouble in this world has its origins in vague speech. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they’re asking for trouble
Speaker: Haruki MurakamiSource: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the WorldPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.Speaker: Bhagavad GitaSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” Zooey
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head – and I could not get it out – that college was one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference if treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping – and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge – when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway – is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Franny
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.
Speaker: J.D. SalingerSource: Franny and ZooeyPosted: 22 Aug 2010 at 5:57 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!