“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Manon, Ballerina
Well, it is a bit hard singling out a good philosophical quote that will inspire, so instead I will include a link to an eBook with many such quotes @ bookbooster.com/newage.htm
But being creative and spontaneous maybe I will just type something inspirational here right now. “Never let your fear decide your fate…” This bears direct relevance to me because since December 2013, after an accidental mega overdose after fourteen days of no sleep (one does not think straight after that many days with no rest that they will try anything to go to sleep), and having survived a near death incident as a result, I was diagnosed with anxiety/panic attack disorder as a result of the side effect of what I swallowed. This has seemingly impeded my work path and career but I persevered. I continue to work in high pressure situations and by some miracle that I cannot explain I have not failed in any of my duties as of yet the last 10 months I have been at the job. I cannot let the sheer extreme fear and terror of a panic attack (which lasts for three hours) get to me and I am still hopeful that with time my thyroid gland will revert back to normal and anxiety + panic attacks will become something of the past. Having anxiety happen at random intervals is rather disturbing but the minute I let my fear of a relapse take control of my life then that is the day I might as well call it game over, finito, fim, the end! So I persevere with the occasional erratic ludicrous thoughts and try my best not to take centre stage in things because fame in itself triggers my anxiety (which by the way is almost crippling).
So, having said all that, here are some quotes typed at the spur of the moment:
“Treasure routines because one day you may find out that you have none.”
“Don’t be a show off because undesired attention could be unpleasant.”
“Never give up on attaining your uttermost passion for a man/woman without values is worse off than a criminal with passion.”
“Cherish friendships of old because as time passes encapsulating moments long gone are luxuries few attain.”
“Love with purpose, love with passion, love with reason, and if it fits an idealised notion than thou are blessed indeed.”
“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has braved the storm of life and lived or he who has stayed securely on shore and merely existed?”
― Hunter S. Thompson
Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.
I’m scrolling a thread at a forum where a bunch of hyper-european hardons are all sitting around the campfire bashing the middle east and then suddenly I see this:
… and I almost fell out of my chair. You know that sound when the record player needle scratches across the record. That’s what I heard. I’m still wiping off the coffee I spit all my computer screen.
It’s not just that the comment was funny, but the entire context in which it was said. You literally see everybody drop their beers and stare at her in silence. Oh my god that was funny.
Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. ”
The Ancients and prior (and not the Classicists) gave us the foundation for modern Politics and The Sciences etc., which the Classicists tailored to suit their needs later on.
“I’m now making myself as scummy as I can. Why? I want to be a poet, and I’m working at turning myself into a seer. You won’t understand any of this, and I’m almost incapable of explaining it to you. The idea is to reach the unknown by the derangement of all the senses. It involves enormous suffering, but one must be strong and be a born poet. It’s really not my fault.”- Arthur Rimbaud
The middle east used to be the factory of mathematics, until some Muslim arch-bishop-type got it into his head that mathematics was the devil. Ever since, theyve become mathematically inept.