Quotes
A collection of quotes I enjoy //
On Art:
“We are inside a culture where everything is failing us. The media is failing. The journalists, I don’t know what they’re doing. I don’t know how they live with themselves. News is no longer news. But the one place I feel like I can go where things are reflected back at me in a way that I understand is in the arts. It’s in the poetry, in the fiction, the visual arts, the dance, the music. And so, you know, I’m beginning to understand now why the dictators killed the artists.”
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.”
– Dan Savage
“Art is how you decorate space, music is how you decorate time.”
– Jean-Michel Basquait
“Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.”
– Frank Zappa
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.”
– Karl Schroeder
On Intentionality:
“Life expands in proportion to the courage you bring to it.”
– Anais Nin
“The more you struggle to live, the less you live. Give up the notion that you must be sure of what you are doing. Instead, surrender to what is real within you, for that alone is sure.”
– Baruch Spinoza
“Wanting positive experience is a negative experience, accepting negative experience is a positive experience.”
– Lao Tzu
“Don’t waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.”– Emily Dickinson
“When the intention of the archer is transformed into the flight of the arrow, her hand opens at the right moment, the sound of the string makes the birds sing, and the gesture of shooting something over a distance provokes a return to and an encounter with oneself.”
– Paulo Coelho
“We must all suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.”
– Jim Rohn
“The only constant in life is change.”
– Heraclitus
On Love and Suffering:
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
“War is when your government tells you who the enemy is. Revolution is when you figure it out for yourself.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte
“Making someone feel like they are being seen, that they are being heard and that they are being understood is the loudest form of love.”
– Brené Brown
“Wisdom and Love must balance mutually. Wisdom without Love it’s a destructive element. Love without Wisdom can lead us to error: love is law, but conscious love”
– Samael Aun Weor
“Honesty without compassion is cruelty, kindness without honesty is manipulation.”
– Bruce Kasanoff
“Holding onto anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
– Gautama Buddha
“To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.”
– Tim Keller
“To truly see someone – anyone – is an act that acknowledges and forgives our common and imperfect humanity. Love says softly – I see you.”
– Nick Cave