“Where are you? Here
What time is it? Now
What are you? This moment.”
Dan Millman (1946) American self help writer
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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“Love is not what you do. Love is what you are.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“If a person has no hope, he is truly blessed because that person has no fear of failure.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Talk is cheap. Show me the code.”
Linus Torvalds (1969) Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
Message to linux-kernel mailing list, 2000-08-25, Torvalds, Linus, 2006-08-28 http://lkml.org/lkml/2000/8/25/132, <br class="br">2000s, 2000-04
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Variant: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Context: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
Michael Jackson (1958–2009) American singer, songwriter and dancer
Earth Song
HIStory: Past, Present & Future, Book I (1995)
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author
Preface to Transit of Venus: Poems by Harry Crosby (1931)
“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.”
H.P. Lovecraft book The Nameless City
Variant: That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die.
Source: The Nameless City
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar
Variant: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
William Shakespeare book Much Ado About Nothing
Source: Much Ado About Nothing