Influx

There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
--Henry Thoreau

Short Period

Life is a short period of time in which we are alive.
--Philip Roth

Better To See

It is better to see God in everything than to try and figure it out.
--Neem Karoli Baba

To Attend

You lose half the enjoyment in life when you refuse to attend.
--Lewis Carroll

Do Not Quite

We wish to be self-sustained. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Real Truth

The optimist thinks the glass is half full. The pessimist thinks the glass is half empty. The engineer knows the real truth: that the glass is twice as large as it should be for optimum utilization of resources.
--Dale Andreatta

Shut Down

If we were to care about every person suffering on this planet, life would shut down.
--David Shore

The Majority

In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
--Mahatma Gandhi

Broken

Both parties understand that the current system is broken. But what we can't seem to agree upon is how to best keep it broken, while still ensuring that no elected official takes any political risk whatsoever. It's a very complicated issue.
--House Speaker "Nancy Pelosi" via The Onion

Cannot Feel

People in a hurry cannot feel.
--Alan Watts

Equipment

Stories are equipment for living.
--Robert McKee

Telling Lies

Life does not tell stories. Life is chaotic, fluid, random: it leaves myriads of ends untied, untidily. Writers can extract a story from life only by strict, close selection, and this must mean falsification. Telling stories really is telling lies.
--B. S. Johnson

The Slime

Relationships have a way of rubbing our noses in the slime of life--an experience we would rather forego, but one that offers an important exposure to our own depth.
--Thomas Moore

Frugally

Expect nothing, live frugally on surprise.
--Alice Walker

Real Magic

Real magic doesn't come from achieving the perfect appearance, from being Cinderella at the ball with both glass slippers and a killer hairstyle. The real magic is in the pumpkin, in the mice, in the moonlight; not beyond ordinary life, but within it.
--Martha Beck

For Change

We're hankering for change but haven't any notion as to where we are headed.
--Frederick Woodruff

Only Thing

Consciousness is the only thing in the world and the greatest mystery.
--Martin Amis

Morality

The political and personal morality of the West, especially in the United States, is...utterly schizophrenic. It is a monstrous combination of uncompromising idealism and unscrupulous gangsterism, and thus devoid of the humor and humaneness which enables confused rascals to sit down together and work out reasonable deals.
--Alan W. Watts

Think Before

Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
--Lewis Carroll

Host

The word "host" is related through Indo-European roots to the words "hostile" and "hostage."
--Dwight Garner

Simply the Opinion

Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
--Oscar Wilde