Quotes That Go Hard 🔥
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless
substitute for life.
It's easy to think we know everything, but at the end of the day we are just a bunch of soft
animals walking in and out of rooms.
What is life but a set of rooms, and what you become is the result of people you're
stuck with in those rooms.
In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.
Meaning is a jumper that you have to knit yourself.
I could write my magnum opus or I could simply go to bed.
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance in the rain.
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence
is an act of rebellion.
If everything is pointless, you may as well just be in a good mood anyway.
We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization
is the root of all evil.
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only sustained
by a perpetual neglect of many other things.
It is the hour to be drunken! Be drunken, if you would not be martyred slaves of Time;
be drunken continually! With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will!
You have to be a bit too optimistic at times to make a difference.
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,— act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!
For, although it may have been a very difficult thing to paint the marriage of Cana, or write the fourth act of Antony and Cleopatra,
there is a more difficult piece of art before everyone in this world who cares to set about explaining his
own character to others.
Moderation is a fatal thing; nothing succeeds like excess.
There is too much to know... We have to abandon the arrogant belief that
the world is merely a puzzle to be solved, a machine with instructions for use waiting to be discovered,
a body of information to be fed to a computer.
I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
I had holes, but over time I learned how to use them to navigate the wind, and I could fly. I was free.
We all need to be accurate, we all need to be honest, and we all need to sometimes do things that
are a huge waste of time.
Medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life.
But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for.
Now’s the perfect time to get that lobotomy you’ve been putting on hold!
Instead, be present in your first person experience, and let that change your awareness.
The miracle is not that electrons behave oddly. The miracle is that when you take ten to the twenty-seven
electrons, they behave like cheese. That's the miracle.
Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
Twenty-two was a panic attack. I can't stop the time from moving and I can never gеt it back.
