“If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 26 of 313
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
“There are many people who live in what I call 'No-man's Land,' a place where you're not really happy, but you're not unhappy enough to do anything about it. That's a dangerous place. It's a place where people numb themselves to their dreams. It's where they dismiss hope and accept what's in front of them instead of driving toward what they really want in life.”
“If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”
“How big can you be if just the underground niggas know you? You can't buy your mom a house when you just an underground celebrity.”
“We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.”
“We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings.”
“Eureka! [I have found it!] On discovery of a method to test the purity of gold.”
“The dreamers of the day are dangerous... for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.”
“I used to take everything at face value. Because, when I say something, I mean it... so I used to feel that everybody else meant what they said. But of course that wasn't true. And life isn't that sweet and simple.”
“Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.”
“I know why the caged bird sings.”
“They expected to lose. And therefore, they lost. [..] People who start thinking deep dark thoughts in the middle of a war start expecting to lose.”
“You should work your hardest to inspire your inspirations”
“Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune.”
“In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement.”
“Dreaming means 'rehearsing' what you see, playing it over and over in your mind until it becomes as real to you as your life right now.”
“Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.”
“Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.”
“[We are] no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men.”