Quotes - Greg (mentekau) Showing 1-30 of 131

#1

“I would rather be ashes than dust!
I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot.
I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
The function of man is to live, not to exist.
I shall not waste my days trying to prolong them.
I shall use my time.”
― Jack London

tags: life, meteor

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#2

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: accomplishment, attributed-no-source, be-yourself, conformity, individuality

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#3

“For if a lover's face survives emblazoned on your heart, the world is still your home.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

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#4

“Many people dedicate their lives to actualizing a concept of what they should be like, rather than actualizing themselves.
This difference between self-actualization and self-image actualization is very important. Most people live only for their image”
― Bruce Lee

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#6

“Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho

tags: life

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#6

“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: anthromorphism, dogs, pets

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#7

“Everyone believes the world's greatest lie..." says the mysterious old man.
"What is the world's greatest lie?" the little boy asks.
The old man replies, "It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate. That's the world's greatest lie.”
― paulo coelho

tags: paulo-coelho, the-alchemist

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#8

“I don't want to be a tree; I want to be its meaning.”
― Orhan Pamuk, My Name Is Red

tags: philosophy

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#9

“Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
― Anton Chekhov

tags: broken-glass, glass, moon, moonshine, show-don-t-tell, writing

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#10

“We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.”
― William James

tags: connection, friendship, sea

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#11

“There are two lives, the natural and the spiritual, and we must lose the one before we can participate in the other.”
― William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience

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#12

“When a thing is new, people say: ‘It is not true.’ Later, when its truth becomes obvious, they say: ‘It is not important.’ Finally, when its importance cannot be denied, they say: ‘Anyway, it is not new.”
― William James

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#13

“Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them.”
― William James

tags: inspirational, motivational

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#14

“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”
― Williams James

tags: action, feeling

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#15

“Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second”
― William James

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#16

“Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake.”
― William James

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#17

“Resign your destiny to higher powers.”
― William James

tags: destiny, higher-power

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#18

“You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.”
― William James

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#19

“Greatness is not this wonderful, esoteric, elusive, godlike feature that only the special among us will ever taste, it's something that truly exists in all of us.”
― Will Smith

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#20

“The Bright Blessed Day, the Dark Sacred Night”
― Louis Armstrong

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#21

“Your eyes show the strength of your soul.”
― Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist

tags: eyes-soul

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#22

“We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost.”
― Charlie Chaplin

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#23

“You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down”
― Charlie Chaplin

tags: inspirational, optimism, pessimism, wonder

1730 likes

#24

“When life itself seems lunatic, who knows where madness lies? Perhaps to be too practical is madness. To surrender dreams — this may be madness. Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

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#25

“I dream with my eyes open.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: fancy

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#26

“As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life.”
― Jules Verne, Journey to the Center of the Earth

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#27

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never Is, but always To be blest.
The soul, uneasy, and confin'd from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.”
― Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man

tags: hope, poetry

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#28