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“Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible in us be found.”
― Pema Chodron

“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while. Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people. "Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok … But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.”
― Bill Hicks

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
― Franz Kafka

“Creative people are easily bored, moody, a bit difficult to handle. You have to make it fun for them, care for them. Creative people only produce really good work if you creatively challenge them. They have to like what they’re working on. They have to be damn proud of the fact that they’re a part of a particular project. That is again the task of the manager. Each time, you have to give them creative challenges. That’s difficult, but nobody said it is easy to lead creative people.”
― Tynan Sylvester, Designing Games: A Guide to Engineering Experiences

“There are three stages of scientific discovery: first people deny it is true; then they deny it is important; finally they credit the wrong person.”
― Alexander Von Humboldt

“We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

“if you don't have peace, it isn't because someone took it from you; you gave it away. You cannot always control what happens to you, but you can control what happens in you.”
― John C. Maxwell, Be a People Person

“Sometimes it seems the only people willing to give advice in a relativistic society are those with the least to offer.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“It’s appropriate and praiseworthy to associate with people whose lives would be improved if they saw your life improve.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”
― Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
― Andre Gide

“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers, the people, the common man, prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
― Ludwig von Mises, Human Action: A Treatise on Economics

“Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket.”
― Victor Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

“Every man should be capable of all ideas, and I believe that in the future he will be.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“I'm an educated man, the prisons I know are subtle ones.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives

“I can compel no man to agree with my opinions, but at least I can compel him to have an opinion.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Oriented Deliberation in View of the Dogmatic Problem of Hereditary Sin

“Sir, I admit your general rule,
That every poet is a fool,
But you yourself may serve to show it,
That every fool is not a poet.”
― Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“La lectura es un juego secreto de aproximaciones y distancias. Es también una lotería.”
― Sergio Pitol, El arte de la fuga

“Ovde valja uzeti u obzir i to da svaki građanin može oženiti ženom po svom izboru, sem nesrećnog vladara kome je ovo prirodno pravo oduzeto. Njegova ruka pripada državi i on je mora dati nekoj ženi iz državnih razloga, tj. u saglasnosti sa dobrobiti zemlje. Ali i on je samo čovek koji bi da sledi strasti svog srca. Zato zahtevati da vladar nema ljubavnicu ili ga prekoravati što je ima, ne samo da je malograđanština, već je i nepravda i nezahvalnost.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

“Beauty is the only master to serve.”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“It is not in what you succeed in doing that you get your joy, but in the doing of it. ”
― Jack London, Martin Eden

“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“Then you will come to see things in an all-encompassing sense and, taking the void as the Way, you will see the Way as void.

In the void is virtue, and no evil. Wisdom exists, principle exists, the way exists. Spirit is Void.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, A Book of Five Rings: The Classic Guide to Strategy

“How do you know that you are on your path – because it disappears. That’s how you know. How do you know that you are really doing something radical? Because you can’t see where you are going. That’s how you know. And everything you have lent on for your identity has gone. And so you are going to enter the black contemplative splendours of self-doubt, at the same time as you are setting out on this radical new path.”
― David Whyte

“Bolje je da idiot ubije sam sebe nego da primora nekog drugog da ga ubije.”
― Arthur Schopenhauer, The Wisdom of Life

“And then the storm of shit begins.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“life is a succession of misunderstandings, leading us on to the final truth, the only truth.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile

“It’s good to love. It’s bad to be impressionable.”
― Roberto Bolaño, By Night in Chile