Chris Parke > Chris's Quotes

“Wake up! If you knew for certain you had a terminal illness--if you had little time left to live--you would waste precious little of it! Well, I'm telling you...you do have a terminal illness: It's called birth. You don't have more than a few years left. No one does! So be happy now, without reason--or you will never be at all.”
― Dan Millman

“If the world is saved, it will not be saved by old minds with new programs but by new minds with no programs at all.”
― Daniel Quinn, The Story of B

“Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Our life is what our thoughts make it.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The notion that human life is sacred just because it is human life is medieval.”
― Peter Singer

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
― Leo Tolstoy

“I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me.”
― S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders

“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives

“Drugs will turn you into your parents.”
― Frank Zappa

“I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.”
― Henry Rollins

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It

“Write it on your heart
that every day is the best day in the year.
He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day
who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

Finish every day and be done with it.
You have done what you could.
Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in.
Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day;
begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit
to be cumbered with your old nonsense.

This new day is too dear,
with its hopes and invitations,
to waste a moment on the yesterdays.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Collected Poems and Translations

“Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.”
― Albert Schweitzer

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”
― Socrates