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💬 QuotesTim featured this 3× · 2022–2023

If I could sink my teeth into the whole earth And actually taste it, I’d be happier for a moment… But I don’t always want to be happy. To be unhappy now and then Is part of being natural. Not all days are sunny, And when rain is scarce, we pray for it. And so I take unhappiness with happiness Naturally, just as I don’t marvel That there are mountains and plains And that there are rocks and grass… What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think as if thinking were walking, And to remember, when death comes, that each day dies, And the sunset is beautiful, and so is the night that remains… That’s how it is and how I want it to be… — Fernando Pessoa

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2021–2026

“There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2020–2026

“If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.” ― Stephen King from On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2020–2025

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness; I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” — Søren Kierkegaard

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2020–2025

“Propaganda seeks to destroy art in order to sanitize culture.” — Mary Karr in The Art of Memoir

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2020–2025

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” ― James Baldwin

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2018–2025

Hanlon’s Razor. “Hanlon’s Razor states that we should not attribute to malice that which is more easily explained by stupidity. In a complex world, this principle helps us avoid extreme paranoia and ideology, often very hard to escape from, by not generally assuming that bad results are the fault of a bad actor, although they can be. More likely, a mistake has been made.” (Source: Farnam Street). More can be found in the Wikipedia entry.

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2021–2024

“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.” — Bob Dylan

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2024

“Old George Orwell got it backward. Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake. He’s making sure you’re always distracted. He’s making sure you’re fully absorbed. He’s making sure your imagination withers. Until it’s as useful as your appendix. He’s making sure your attention is always filled. And this being fed, it’s worse than being watched. With the world always filling you, no one has to worry about what’s in your mind. With everyone’s imagination atrophied, no one will ever be

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2023–2024

“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.” ― James Baldwin

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2024

“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship, that makes unhappy marriages.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.” — Amos Tversky

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” ― T.S. Eliot, The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“Language can become a screen which stands between the thinker and reality. This is the reason why true creativity often starts where language ends.” — Arthur Koestler

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“In order to change skins, evolve into new cycles, I feel one has to learn to discard. If one changes internally, one should not continue to live with the same objects. They reflect one’s mind and psyche of yesterday. I throw away what has no dynamic, living use.” — Anaïs Nin

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” — Søren Kierkegaard

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2021–2023

“A writer—and, I believe, generally all persons—must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have been given to us for a purpose, and an artist must feel this more intensely. All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we may shape our art.” — Jorge Luis Borges

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2022–2023

“And so it is that most people have no idea how beautiful the world is and how much magnificence is revealed in the tiniest things, in some flower, in a stone, in tree bark, or in a birch leaf. The grown-ups, going about their business and worries, and tormenting themselves with all kinds of details, gradually lose the perspective for these riches that children, when they are attentive and good, soon notice and love with their whole heart. And yet the greatest beauty would be achieved if everyone remained in this regard always like attentive and good children, simple and pious in sensitivities

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“To a disciple who was forever complaining about others, the Master said, ‘If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.’” — Anthony de Mello

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2023

“Treat a work of art like a prince: let it speak to you first.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2018–2022

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” — Jack Kornfield

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2017–2022

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” — Louis L'Amour

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2016–2022

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” — Attributed to Oscar Wilde “You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’” — Maya Angelou

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2022

“Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.” ― E. O. WilsonRIP December 26, 2021

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2020–2021

“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.” — Anton Chekhov

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2019–2021

“If you absolutely can’t tolerate critics, then don’t do anything new or interesting.” — Jeff Bezos

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2020

Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. — Mary Oliver

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2018–2020

“The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.” ― Eden Phillpotts

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2018–2020

“Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.” — Ben Okri

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2018–2020

“Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” — Mignon McLaughlin

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2018–2020

“Don’t postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.” — Alan Cohen

💬 QuotesTim featured this 2× · 2017–2019

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ― Helen Schucman

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

Could apply to a lot of vocations and missions, not just writing: “The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.” — John Steinbeck

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” — Ray Bradbury

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“For the classics, philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me, a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.” — Nassim Nicholas Taleb “Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.” — Simone Weil

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin “Yes. Adlerian psychology is a psychology of courage. Your unhappiness cannot be blamed on your past or your environment. And it isn’t that you lack competence. You just lack courage. One might say you are lacking in the courage to be happy.” — The Courage to Be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“If you are moved by it, you don’t need it explained to you. If not, no explanation can make you moved by it.” — Federico Fellini, Italian film director and screenwriter (1920–1993).

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“In looking for people to hire, you look for three qualities: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.” — Warren Buffett

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“We get old and get used to each other. We think alike. We read each others minds. We know what the other wants without asking. Sometimes we irritate each other a little bit. Maybe sometimes take each other for granted. But once in awhile, like today, I meditate on it and realize how lucky I am to share my life with the greatest woman I ever met. You still fascinate and inspire me. You influence me for the better. You’re the object of my desire, the #1 Earthly reason for my existence. I love you very much.” — Johnny Cash, letter to June Carter Cash, 23rd June 1994 You can complement this editi

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” — Claude Monet

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“I’ve fallen in love or imagine that I have; went to a party and lost my head. Bought a horse which I don’t need at all.” — Leo Tolstoy, Diary entry, January 25, 1851

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“The first objective was to give as many students as possible an early sense of achievement within the first half hour. Using one of his many heuristic techniques—described as ‘mental hooks’—[Michel Thomas] demonstrated to the class that they already possessed a French vocabulary of as many as three thousand words or more. And that these were not ‘baby’ words, but complex adult words, so they did not have to begin learning as children. He pointed out that most English words ending in -tion, -able, -ence and -ism were the same in French (condition, capable, experience, realism). And that many E

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“[Michael Levin] agrees with the plant neurobiologists that neurons are overrated, and that other cells can do what neurons do, just more slowly. ‘Whenever I’m at a conference with neuroscientists, I like to ask them to define a neuron,’ he told me. ‘They list maybe five things neurons can do, and I point out that every cell in the body can do those things.’ By which he means, and has demonstrated, that all cells can communicate (both electrically and chemically), form networks, and store information. ‘I’m not denigrating neuroscience,’ he said. ‘I’m saying neuroscience is widely applicable wa

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“I don't follow trends. I outlast them.” — Arnold Schwarzenegger

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“In the family, I learn the complex choreography of love—what it means to give and take and share, to grow from obedience to responsibility, to learn, challenge, rebel, make mistakes, to forgive and be forgiven, to argue and make up, to win without triumph and know when graciously to lose. It’s where we acquire emotional intelligence, that delicate negotiation between the given and the chosen, the things I will and the things resistant to my will.” — Jonathan Sacks, English Orthodox rabbi, philosopher, and author (1948–2020), from Celebrating Life: Finding Happiness in Unexpected Places. You c

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“It is urgent to live enchanted.” — Valter hugo mãe

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.” — C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“In the words of the ancients, one should make his decisions within the space of seven breaths. Lord Takanobu said, ‘If discrimination is long, it will spoil.’ Lord Naoshige said, ‘When matters are done leisurely, seven out of ten will turn out badly. A warrior is a person who does things quickly.’ When your mind is going hither and thither, discrimination will never be brought to a conclusion. With an intense, fresh and undelaying spirit, one will make his judgments within the space of seven breaths. It is a matter of being determined and having the spirit to break right through to the other

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.” — Václav Havel (1936–2011), Czech writer and statesman, president of the Czech Republic from 1993 to 2003, from Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala.

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“I have always admired a man like the late Fred Fuller Shedd, who had a gift for stating an old truth in a new and picturesque way. While editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin and addressing a college graduating class, he asked: ‘How many of you have ever sawed wood? Let’s see your hands.’ Most of them had. Then he inquired: ‘How many of you have ever sawed sawdust?’ No hands went up. ‘Of course, you can’t saw sawdust!’ Mr. Shedd exclaimed. ‘It’s already sawed! And it’s the same with the past. When you start worrying about things that are over and done with, you’re merely trying to saw sawdust.’

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“‘It’s dark because you’re trying too hard,’ said Susila. ‘Dark because you want it to be light. Remember what you used to tell me when I was a little girl. “Lightly, child, lightly. You’ve got to learn to do everything lightly. Think lightly, act lightly, feel lightly. Yes, feel lightly, even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them.” I was so preposterously serious in those days. … Lightly, lightly—it was the best advice ever given me. … So throw away all your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, tryi

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“Happiness lies in thinking or doing that which one considers beautiful.” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can … reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that’s what I mean by ‘Hallelujah.’” — Leonard Cohen

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“I no longer need the armor; my softness is the strongest part of me.” — Brianna Wiest

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different. We may go through life without suspecting their existence; but apply the requisite stimulus and at a touch they are there in all their completeness. … No account of the universe in its totality can be final which leaves these other forms of consciousness quite disregarded.” — William James

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“A writer’s heart, a poet’s heart, an artist’s heart, a musician’s heart is always breaking. It is through that broken window that we see the world.” — Alice Walker

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2026

“The universe is not only stranger than we suppose, but stranger than we can suppose.” —J. B. S. Haldane, British geneticist/biometrician/physiologist who is considered a founding figure in modern evolutionary biology.

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2025

“What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” ― Maya Angelou

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2025

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou

💬 QuotesTim featured this 1× · 2025

“Ladies and gentlemen of the class of 2005 at Emory, real life is not college; real life is not high school. Here is a secret that no one has told you: Real life is junior high. The world that you’re about to enter is filled with junior high adolescent pettiness, pubescent rivalries, the insecurities of 13-year-olds, and the false bravado of 14-year-olds.” — Tom Brokaw, Emory University Commencement Address (2005)