“There's no such thing as nothing. In every nothing, there's a something. In fact, there could be everything!” ― Libba Bray, Going Bovine
If these are quotes that one is supposed to take to heart and apply in one's own life, I just wonder to what extent their meaning and implications are actually considered. Are inspirational quotes just fluff to momentarily make you feel good about yourself and/or the world and/or some of the other people in it, or are they intended as actual advice/guidance/rules to live by?
"Before you diagnose yourself with low self-esteem, first make sure you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes." Sigmund Freud
Don't overthink it James. They're just quotes that people like for one reason or another. They can be ideals to aspire to, entertaining witticisms, or just interesting POV's one has come across.
“My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus." [The Science of Second-Guessing (New York Times Magazine Interview, December 12, 2004)]” ― Stephen W. Hawking
“I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being...To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind, that's it.” ~Roald Dahl Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"Truth is intersubjective, not objective. There is no “view from nowhere.” There is always a somewhere, a perspective, a subject."----Tam Hunt
“Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.” ― Emily Dickinson, The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his days.” ― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars; it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.” ― Andre Malraux Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by myself like the solitary sea-bird that opens its wings on the stake. Let me sit here for ever with bare things, this coffee cup, this knife, this fork, things in themselves, myself being myself. "~Virginia Woolf Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to lose one's self.... And to venture in the highest is precisely to be conscious of one's self.” ― Søren Kierkegaard Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work.” ― George Orwell Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“You see, I am not very good in company. I am clumsy. I am shy. [...] I always say the wrong thing. I upset water jugs. I am unlucky." "We all do these things when we are young. The poise, the savoir faire, comes later.” ― Agatha Christie, Murder in Mesopotamia Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch"..---Jack Nicholson Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"You are comprised of 84 minerals, 23 elements, and 8 gallons of water spread across 38 trillion cells. You have been built up from nothing by the spare parts of the Earth you have consumed, according to a set of instructions hidden in a double helix and small enough to be carried by a sperm. You are recycled butterflies, plants, rocks, streams, firewood, wolf fur, and shark teeth, broken down to their smallest parts and rebuilt into our planet's most complex living thing. You are not living on Earth. You are Earth.” ~Aubrey Marcus
