Suffering

Judgment is just a recipe for suffering: start with our dissatisfaction over how a person happens to be and mix in our desire for them to be otherwise.
--Toni Bernhard

Peace

If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better.
--Joss Whedon

Meaning

This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.
--David Foster Wallace

Wake Up

My future starts when I wake up in the morning and see the light.
--Miles Davis

Ingredient

The active ingredient in broccoli is broccoli.
--David Katz

Stupid

If you say that money is the most important thing, you'll spend your life completely wasting your time: You'll be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living, that is, in order to go on doing things you don't like doing--which is stupid!
--Alan Watts

Short and Long

Love is so short, forgetting is so long.
--Pablo Neruda

Home

It all seems so very arbitrary. I applied for a job at this company because they were hiring. I took a desk at the back because it was empty. But, no matter how you get there or where you end up, human beings have this miraculous gift to make that place home.
--Creed Bratton

Story

When you are in the middle of a story it isn't a story at all, but only a confusion... It's only afterwards that it becomes anything like a story at all. When you are telling it, to yourself or to someone else.
--Margaret Atwood

Put Off

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
--Mark Twain

Amateurs

Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work.
--Chuck Close

Image

God created man in his own image. And man returned the favor.
--George Bernard Shaw

Perfect

Seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.
--Jaron Lanier

Society

The happiness of society is the end of government.
--John Adams

Freedom

The trouble with the libertarian approach is that you have the freedom to go anywhere you want, but there aren't any roads.
--Anonymous

Writing

I've never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think that the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.
--John Updike

Pleasure

There comes a time when speaking one's mind ceases to be a moral duty, and becomes a pleasure.
--Oscar Wilde

In Search

Music is love in search of a word.
--Sidney Lanier

My Life

My salvation is to not take anything personally, except my life.
--Sister Patrice

Sense

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.
--e. e. cummings

True Measure

The true measure of a man is not his intelligence or how high he rises in this freak establishment. No, the true measure of a man is this: how quickly can he respond to the needs of others and how much of himself he can give.
--Philip K. Dick

Only Love

Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.
--Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.