Paul > Paul's Quotes

“Don’t ask me why I obsessively look to rock ’n’ roll bands for some kind of model for a better society. I guess it’s just that I glimpsed something beautiful in a flashbulb moment once, and perhaps mistaking it for prophecy have been seeking its fulfillment ever since.”
― Lester Bangs

“Sometimes I think nothing is simple but the feeling of pain.”
― Lester Bangs, Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung

“The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else while you're uncool.”
― Lester Bangs

“But since death is inevitable we don’t have to deal with it (it’ll deal with us when it decides to). What we do have to deal with is the psychic, physical, and fusion diseases wrought during our so-called lives as byproducts of the elemental clash. In other words we’re all terminally psychotic and no doctor, hospital, pill, needle, book or guru holds the cure. Because the disease is called life and there is no cure for that but death and death’s just part of the set-up designed to keep you terrified and thus in bondage from the cradle to the crypt so ha ha the joke’s on you except there’s no punchline and the comedian forgot you ever existed as even a comma.”
― Lester Bangs

“You can judge a man's true character by the way he treats his fellow animals.”
― Paul McCartney

“God has blessed you richly, so get down on your knees and thank him. Don’t forget the less fortunate or God will personally kick your ass. I’d love to do it for him, but I can’t be everywhere.”
― Willie Nelson

“You'll never get ahead by blaming your problems on other people.”
― Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“You will never find happiness until you stop looking for it.”
― Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.”
― Willie Nelson

“A lot of people make money off of fear and negativity and any way they can feed it to you is to their benefit in a lot of ways. You can't avoid it completely; you have to be open enough that shit doesn't stick on you, it goes through, because you are gonna be hit and bombarded all the time with negativity... You just let things go on through without trying to stop them or block them.”
― Willie Nelson

“Gay or straight? So what? It doesn't matter to me. We have to be concerned about other people regardless.”
― Willie Nelson

“You will never find love until you stop looking.”
― Willie Nelson

“Life and water are inseparable. Three quarters of the earth's surface is covered by water, just as three quarters of your body is made up of water. Even in the driest desert where rain may come just once every few years, the cycles of life are based on waiting for the arrival of water. Our bodies are not so patient.
Every cell in your body needs water to survive, and that means that drinking plenty of clean, fresh water can make you stronger healthier and smarter. Water carries oxygen and fuel to your cells, lubricates your joints, regulates your body temperature, and plays a key roll in just about every function of your body.
My number one roadie, POODIE, says, "You can't make a turd without grease.”
― Willie Nelson, The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart

“I believe in looseness.”
― Willie Nelson

“Fortunately, we are not in control.”
― Willie Nelson

“I don’t believe in adhering to any rules I don’t support and I didn’t vote for. To hell with what people think. Just be who you are and you’ll be happy.”
― Willie Nelson

“I was in the Air Force a while and they had what they call "policing the area." That's where you looked around and if there's anything wrong here, there, anywhere, you took care of your own area. And I think that's a pretty good thing to go by. If everyone just takes care of their own area then we won't have any problems. Be here. Be present. Wherever you are, be there. And look around you and see what needs to be changed.”
― Willie Nelson, Wisdom: The Greatest Gift One Generation Can Give To Another

“The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
― Willie Nelson

“There are more old drunks than there are old doctors.”
― Willie Nelson

“The truth is not always beautiful, nor beautiful words the truth.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

“If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.”
― Stephen Colbert

“Do you really want to be happy? You can begin by being appreciative of who you are and what you've got.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh

“Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.”
― Alan Wilson Watts

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing.”
― Lao Tzu

“The moon does not fight. It attacks no one. It does not worry. It does not try to crush others. It keeps to its course, but by its very nature, it gently influences. What other body could pull an entire ocean from shore to shore? The moon is faithful to its nature and its power is never diminished.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

“Those who don't know how to suffer are the worst off. There are times when the only correct thing we can do is to bear out troubles until a better day.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony

“Shape clay into a vessel;

It is the space within that makes it useful.

Cut doors and windows for a room;

It is the holes which make it useful.

Therefore benefit comes from what is there;

Usefulness from what is not there.”
― Laozi

“The hard and mighty lie beneath the ground
While the tender and weak dance on the breeze above.”
― Lao Tzu

“Expression is never helped by suppression.”
― Deng Ming-Dao, Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony