JokerGem's Quotes

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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross Famous Quote	added 2 days ago
Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood. – Friedrich Nietzsche Famous Quote	added 1 month ago
IT is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error. – Thomas Paine Famous Quote	added 2 months ago
Sometimes the desire to be lost again, as long ago, comes over me like a vapor. With growth into adulthood, responsibilities claimed me, so many heavy coats. I didn't choose them, I don't fault them, but it took time to reject them. Now in the spring I kneel, I put my face into the packets of violets, the dampness, the freshness, the sense of ever-ness. Something is wrong, I know it, if I don't keep my attention on eternity. May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful. May I stay forever upstream. May I look down upon the windflower and the bull thistle and the coreopsis with the greatest respect. – Mary Oliver Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
One of the sad things today is that so many people are frightened by the wonder of their own presence. They are dying to tie themselves into a system, a role, or to an image, or to a predetermined identity that other people have actually settled on for them. This identity may be totally at variance with the wild energies that are rising inside in their souls. Many of us get very afraid and we eventually compromise. We settle for something that is safe, rather than engaging the danger and the wildness that is in our own hearts. – John O’Donahue Famous Quote	added 3 months ago
Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on. – Simone Weil Famous Quote	added 4 months ago
What made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behave decently in a strikingly indecent society – Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Famous Quote	added 5 months ago
I have begun to feel that there is a tendency in 20th Century science to forget that there will be a 21st Century science, and indeed a 30th Century science, from which vantage points our knowledge of the universe may appear quite different than it does to us. We suffer, perhaps, from temporal provincialism, a form of arrogance that has always irritated posterity. – J. Allen Hynek Famous Quote	added 5 months ago
The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature. – Joseph Campbell Famous Quote	added 5 months ago
Of course, in an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too. – Saul Bellow Famous Quote	added 5 months ago
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. – Isaac Asimov Famous Quote	added 5 months ago
The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know. – Noam Chomsky Famous Quote	added 6 months ago
I have come to think that care of the soul requires a high degree of resistance to the culture around us, simply because that culture is dedicated to values that have no concern for the soul. – Thomas Merton Famous Quote	added 6 months ago
Countless audiences soak passively in the tepid bath of nonsense. No mental effort is demanded of them, no participation; they need only sit and keep their eyes open. – Aldous Huxley Famous Quote	added 6 months ago
I was ashamed of myself when I realized life was a costume party and I attended with my real face. – Franz Kafka Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
Stop the car, Mabel! – Mike Lange Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
It will do you no harm to find yourself ridiculous. Resign yourself to be the fool you are. – T.S. Eliot Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets. – Jonas Mekas Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
Books aren’t just commodities; the profit motive is often in conflict with the aims of art. We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable – but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words. – Ursula K. LeGuin Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
Hard times are coming, when we’ll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope. We’ll need writers who can remember freedom – poets, visionaries – realists of a larger reality. – Ursula K. Le Guin Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
Personality is everything in art and poetry. – Johann von Goethe Famous Quote	added 7 months ago
We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. – Henry James Famous Quote	added 8 months ago
I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can let go and go deep into their roots for renewal and sleep… Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go. – May Sarton Famous Quote	added 8 months ago
I always forget how important the empty days are, how important it may be sometimes not to expect to produce anything, even a few lines in a journal. I am still pursued by a neurosis about work inherited from my father. A day where one has not pushed oneself to the limit seems a damaged damaging day, a sinful day. Not so! The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of a room, not try to be or do anything whatever. – May Sarton Famous Quote	added 8 months ago

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