my quotes collection

"World is decay, life is perception."

-- Democritus

The search for meaning is not always about the answer. It's also the process of seeking that enlightens.

"Serius est quam cogitas." (It's later than you think.)
"Lente hora, celeriter anni." (An hour passes slowly, but the years go by quickly.)
"Sic vita fluit, dum stare videtur." (Life flows away as it seems to stay the same.)
"Una dabit quod negat altera." (One hour will give what another has refused.)
"Vita in motu." (Life is in motion.)
"Vivere memento." (Remember to live.)
-- latin sundial mottos

"There are no truths. Only stories." 
-- Thomas King

"Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty".
-- Chapterhouse: Dune

"Don't be proud of your money because it will never satisfy you"
-- Bad Karma

"There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
-- Freidrich Nietzsche

"We spend most of our lives looking down, sometimes looking ahead and only rarely looking up."

"There is no normal life, there is just life"

"See, ya are what ya are in this world. That's either one of two things: Either you're somebody, or you ain't nobody."
-- Frank Lucas, American Gangster

"There is no such thing as an ending; just a place where you leave the story."

-- The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

"If you think you already know everything about the world, you are not a good scientist, and if you think you know all there is to know about God, then your religious faith is at fault."

-- Guy Consolmagno

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."  
-- Albert Einstein

"Let me suggest something with which you may disagree violently: that at best, the products of human emotion, art, philosophy, politics, music, literature, are interpretations of the world, that tell you more about the guy who's talking, than about the world he's talking about. Second hand views of the world, made third hand by your interpretation of them."
-- James Burke

"Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not."
-- Epicurus

"Man cannot remake himself without suffering for he is both the marble and the sculptor."
-- Alexis Carrel

"Defeat is a state of mind, no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
-- Bruce Lee

"The future will come by itself, progress will not."

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."
-- Mark Twain

"Don't be too careful, you could hurt yourself."

"Our expectations are constrained by our experiences."

"You cannot explain something to someone that they don't already understand."

"Все люди добрые, но не все об этом знают"

"- Why do they get to decide what's going to happen? - They just do."
-- from Mad Men

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. "

-- Mark Twain

"When a man has once loved a woman, he will do anything for her, except continue to love her."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
-- Epicurus

"There are other worlds than these."

-- from The Dark Tower

"The more you know, the less you need."

-- Aboriginal Saying

"By nature, men are nearly alike; by practise, they get to be wide apart."

-- Confucius

"What would you do today if you knew you wouldn't fail? Now go and do it."

-- New Year's Eve

"We all have problems. The way we solve them is what makes us different."

-- Unknown

"The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives."

-- Albert Schweitzer

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."

-- Oscar Wilde

"The truth tends to itself."

--Adrian Lamo

"Live life for the experiences, not for the possessions."

-- Anonymous

"A man's greatest struggle in this life is to accept his destiny."

-- Anonymous

"Perception comes first and then the understanding comes later. So the understanding doesn’t change the perception."

-- Sean Carroll

"Freedom is when you don't care what anyone thinks of you."

-- Anonymous

"Свобода не там где нет стен, а там где их не замечают."

-- Anonymous

"Belief is the means to organize behaviour and emotions."

-- Anonymous

"What we think, we become."

-- Buddha

"To the world you may be just one person, but to one person you may be the world."

-- Brandi Snyder

"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."

-- Sam Keen

“It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.”

"You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot close your heart to the things you do not want to feel."

"You can shed tears that she is gone,

or you can smile because she has lived.

You can close your eyes and pray that she'll come back,

or you can open your eyes and see all she's left.

Your heart can be empty because you can't see her,

or you can be full of the love you shared.

You can turn your back on tomorrow and live yesterday,

or you can be happy for tomorrow because of yesterday.

You can remember her only that she is gone,

or you can cherish her memory and let it live on.

You can cry and close your mind,

be empty and turn your back.

Or you can do what she'd want:

smile, open your eyes, love and go on."

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Better half of something than all of nothing."

-- from babylon 5

"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."

-- Mahatma Gandhi

"In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few."

-- Shunryu Suzuki

"The brick walls are there for us to show how much we want something. They're there to stop the people that don't want it bad enough."
-- Randy Pausch Last Lecture: Achieving Your Childhood Dreams

"There is nothing we can hold on to in this world. Only by letting go can we truly possess what is real."
-- Crouching tiger, hidden dragon

"All we have is what we're going after."

"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."

"You must be the change you want to see in the world."
-- Gandhi

"All I know is I know nothing."

-- Socrates

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge."
-- Winston Churchill

"Everything is change, sorrow, and absence of any permanent principle."

-- Buddha

"Life is change. Sometimes it's painful, sometimes it's beautiful, most of the times it's both."
-- from smallville

"Life is chaos, chaos is life, control is an illusion."
-- from andromeda

"- Give me a sign that you are true. - Need of a sign is for the week of faith."
-- from into the west

"Choice is the death of all other possibilities."
-- from taken

"We don't give medals for participation, we either win or die."
-- from stargate SG1

"Without innocence the cross is only iron, hope is only an illusion, an ocean soul's nothing but a name..."

-- Nightwish

"Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."

-- William Shakespear

"The most important things in life aren't things."

-- Anthony J. D'Angel

"Life has no rehearsals, only performances."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

-- Albert Einstein

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

-- Freya Stark

"Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true."

"Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed."

-- Storm Jameson

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere."

-- Agnes Repplier

"But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good."

-- Oscar Wilde

"In the world there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

-- Oscar Wilde

"We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world."

-- Buddha

"Man can never make loneliness disappear because man is alone, but man can forget."

-- from neon genesis evangelion

"As long as we live, we have a chance to attain happiness."

-- from neon genesis evangelion

"The end of evolution is self-destruction."

-- from neon genesis evangelion

"Stop trying to do something and just do it."

-- the book of five rings - miyamoto musashi

"Everything depends upon what you value more, the journey or the destination"

-- from la femme nikita

"There is time for everything in this life, but there is never enough time."

"Expect the unexpected."

-- from babylon 5

"The universe puts us in places where we can learn, they're never easy places, but they are right, wherever we are is the right place and the right time..."

-- from babylon 5

"Never give up"

"There's no meaning to a flower unless it blooms."

-- from naruto

per aspera ad astra: Through rough ways to the stars; through suffering to renown.

"A person is able to become truly strong when they wish to protect someone they cherish."

-- from naruto

"One of the things life is about is to do something for someone else, not just for you."

"Those with less abilities tend to complain more."

-- from naruto

"We seldom think of what we have, but always think of what we miss."

"Don't cry because it's over now, laugh because it happened."

"The more precisely you plan, the harder destiny will hit you."

"Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

-- erica jong

"Глупые мечтают, умные планируют. Ленивые ждут, трудолюбивые вкалывают. Жадные хватают, добрые отдают. Злые наказывают, великодушные прощают. Хитрые обманывают, простаки верят ... ... И только мудрые делают все это вовремя"

"When your only reality is an illusion, then the illusion is a reality."

-- from startrek:voy

"It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed."

-- napoleon hill

"If you want to make a man miserable, take his hopes away."

"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain."

"Gott Mit Uns"

-- from hellsing

"I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out."

-- elizabeth barrett browning

"Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."

-- gandhi

"An ocean refuses no river."

-- sheila chandra

"People don't look for allies when they love, but they do when they hate or become obsessed with a cause."

-- mass mind control techniques in america - dick sutphen

nama-rupa-rahita : free from all names and forms

"Man sows a thought and reaps an action. He sows an action and reaps a habit. He sows a habit and reaps a character. He sows a character and reaps a destiny."

"Take good care of your love. Love's the most powerful thing on earth. It can make you fly and forget everything else. A child like you would be ruined in no time without love - you've no immunity against life."

-- wei hui - shanghai baby

"In the end it's not about what they say, it's about what we hear."

"If i am somewhere where no one knows me, and i also know no one, what i thought what i'd do was, i'd pretend i was one of those deaf-mutes."

-- from gits

"A never dying shadow in a world of lights."

-- from mgs

"People are not designed to love each other, from the moment we are born into this world, all we do is hurt each other, causing endless pain ..."

-- from mgs

"Let's change the world. Why? Because we can!"

"Each man has he's own path."

"You must let all the feelings flow trough you. Then you become balanced."

"Play tricks on ppl :)"

all i know, is what i'm told

all i have, is what i'm sold

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."

-- ralph waldo emerson

"It's a hundred times harder to live than to die."

-- from battle royal 2

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

-- edmund burke

"We all just live on the edge. if we don't climb up, we're going down."

-- from la femme nikita

"Enjoy the short moments of everyday life."

-- from gantz

"It's our imperfections that make us unique."

-- from startrek:tng

"Wishing for a thing does not make it so."

-- from startrek:tng

"Our actions define who we are, not our beliefs."

-- from startrek:ds9

"A fish cannot live in crystal clear water."

-- cunyetomo hagakurye - bushido

"Слово гэн означает «иллюзия», или «при­видение». Все в этом мире – всего лишь кукольное представле­ние. Вот что значит слово гэн."

-- cunyetomo hagakurye - bushido

"Without the darkness how would we recognized light? do not fear your negative thoughts, they are part of you. to pretend they do not exist is to create an opportunity for them to escape."

-- from startrek:voy

"At last I understand. We hurt others by our very existence. That's just the way we live. We need to learn to forgive. Need to realize that existence is to be shared. We 're not just here to exist; but to find the strength to co-exist. It may start from something small, it may even seem impossible. But we must start from somewhere. Hope......our legacy."

-- from casshern

"Everything in the universe is influenced by everything in the universe."

"Whoever knows he is deep, strives for clarity; whoever would like to appear deep to the crowd, strives for obscurity. For the crowd considers anything deep if only it cannot see to the bottom: the crowd is so timid and afraid of going into the water."

"Perhaps i know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."

"Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal."

"Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live."

"Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them."

-- Albert Einstein