JamesToonie > JamesToonie's Quotes

“Picture a wave. In the ocean. You can see it, measure it, its height, the way the sunlight refracts when it passes through. And it's there. And you can see it, you know what it is. It's a wave.

And then it crashes in the shore and it's gone. But the water is still there. The wave was just a different way for the water to be, for a little while. You know it's one conception of death for Buddhists: the wave returns to the ocean, where it came from and where it's supposed to be.

The Good Place”
― Chidi

“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle

“She had thought, in her nocturnal and suicidal hours, that solitude was the problem. But that was because it hadn't been true solitude. The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything. But amid pure nature (or the 'tonic of wildness' as Thoreau called it) solitude took on a different character. It became in itself a kind of connection. A connection between herself and the world. And between her and herself.”
― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

“It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.”
― Aristotle

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.”
― Aristotle

“Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.”
― Aristotle

“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.”
― Aristotle, The Nicomachean Ethics

“I may think of you softly from time to time. But I’ll cut off my hand before I ever reach for you again.”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“You are pulling down heaven and raising up a whore”
― Arthur Miller, The Crucible

“I had been mad enough to study reason; I was reasonable enough to study madness.”
― Michel Foucault

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!”
― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman