So I've Heard
On Life
- Saul Bellow -“Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance.”
On Life
- J.D. Salinger from The Catcher in the Rye. -“Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them – if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
On Life
- Mark Twain -“Who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
On Life
- Theodore Rubin -“The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.”
On Life
- Jim Rohn -“Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else’s hands, but not you.”
On Life
- Milton Berle -“I’d rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I’d rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.”
On Life
- -“I remember when i was younger and I wanted to be beautiful; now I’m older and I want to be intelligent. I want to burn hearts with brilliance and engulf souls with compassion. I want to be loved for my thoughts and nothing else.”
On Life
- Caitlyn Siehl, What We Buried -“I am not a place for cowards.”
On Life
- k.a. -“I’ve got a thing for the type of people who are undeniably themselves. The ones with messy hair and even messier souls. The kind of people who wear their hearts on their chest and have passion in their tears. i’ve got a thing for those people who laugh at their own jokes and rejoice in their own success. it’s the people who fight for what they believe in and never let their spirit settle that are the ones for me. I’m obsessed with all the people who have the strength to remain soft and let their fire burn hard. These are the type of people I’m in love with, these are the type of people I want in my life, these are my people.’
On Life
- -“Everyone needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.”
On Life
- Albert Camus -“But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.”
On Life
- -“I must evolve without forfeiting what I love.”
On Life
- George R.R. Martin -“Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you.”
On Life
- Anon -“Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but by how we react to what happens, not by what life brings to us, but by the attitude we bring to life. A positive attitude causes a chain reaction of positive thoughts, events, and outcomes. It is a catalyst, a spark that creates extraordinary results.”
On Life
- Alan Watts -“You were under no obligation to be the same person you were five minutes ago.”
On Life
- -“When you were a child, you were bursting with joy. Someone had to make you miserable. Today, someone has to make you happy. Time to go back from the muddle of the mind to the exuberance of live.”
On Life
- Marcus Aurelius -“Very little is needed to make a happy life, it is all within yourself; in your way of thinking.”
On Life
- Carl Jung -“Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.”
On Life
- Hermann Hesse -“When someone is searching,” said Siddhartha, “then it might easily happen that the only thing his eyes still see in that what he searches for, that he is unable to find anything, to let anything enter his mind, because he always thinks of nothing but the object of his search, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed by the goal. Searching means: having a goal. But finding means: being free, being open, having no goal. You, oh venerable one, are perhaps indeed a searcher, because, striving for your goal, there are many things you don’t see, which are directly in front of your eyes.”
On Life
- Leo Tolstoy -“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I consider to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”
On Life
- Sarah Dressen -“It’s just that… I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It’s the universe’s way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It’s how life is.”
