H. P. Lovecraft II

Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.

Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of the infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the light into the peace and safety of a new Dark Age.

Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious, and there is every biological reason why they should be. 
Take away his Christian god and saints, and he will worship something else...

Harry Styles

A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real.

A real girl isn't perfect and a perfect girl isn't real.

I don't think you can define love.

It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.

We have a choice..To Live or To Exist.

I think you have to take me for me. I am who I am.

A gentleman doesn't kiss and tell.

Don't choose the one who is beautiful to the world. But rather, choose the one who makes your world beautiful.

My worst habit is...getting naked all the time haha...sorry.

I won't give up till we surrender!

Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain.

Alan Watts

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

We seldom realize, for example that our most private thoughts and emotions are not actually our own. For we think in terms of languages and images which we did not invent, but which were given to us by our society.

Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

The menu is not the meal.

You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Veronica Roth

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it.

I might be in love with you. He smiles a little. I'm waiting until I'm sure to tell you, though.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.

Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up.

People, I have discovered, are layers and layers of secrets. You believe you know them, that you understand them, but their motives are always hidden from you, buried in their own hearts. You will never know them, but sometimes you decide to trust them.

Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.

We both have war inside us. Sometimes it keeps us alive. Sometimes it threatens to destroy us.

Then I realize what it is. It's him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.

Some friends don't understand this. They don't understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you're wonderful just the way you are. They don't understand that I can't remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficult for my friends because I want to crumble and fall apart before them so that they will love me even though I am no fun, lying in bed, crying all the time, not moving. Depression is all about If you loved me you would.

I don't want any more of this try, try again stuff. I just want out. I’ve had it. I am so tired. I am twenty and I am already exhausted.

I feel like a defective model, like I came off the assembly line flat-out fucked and my parents should have taken me back for repairs before the warranty ran out.

Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.

Insanity is knowing that what you're doing is completely idiotic, but still, somehow, you just can't stop it.

Sometimes I wish I could walk around with a HANDLE WITH CARE sign stuck to my forehead.

Groucho Marx II

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun.'

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.

I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others.

Well, art is art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water! And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now, uh... now you tell me what you know.

If you're not having fun, you're doing something wrong.

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.”

Brian L. Weis

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

Happiness comes from within. It is not dependent on external things or on other people. You become vulnerable and can be easily hurt when your feelings of security and happiness depend on the behavior and actions of other people. Never give your power to anyone else.

One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency.

If you rely exclusively on the advice of others, you may make terrible mistakes. Your heart knows what you need. Other people have other agendas.

Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.

For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans.

The reward is in doing, but doing without expecting anything...doing unselfishly.

Understand the nature and influence of repeating patterns, from childhood experiences or even from past lives. Wthout understanding, patterns tend to repeat, unnecessarily damaging the relationship.

David Richo

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

Trust in someone means that we no longer have to protect ourselves. We believe we will not be hurt or harmed by the other, at least not deliberately. We trust his or her good intentions, though we know we might be hurt by the way circumstances play out between us. We might say that hurt happens; it’s a given of life. Harm is inflicted; it’s a choice some people make.

Humility means accepting reality with no attempt to outsmart it.

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do.

We do not create our destiny; we participate in its unfolding. Synchronicity works as a catalyst toward the working out of that destiny.

Our tears are precious, necessary, and part of what make us such endearing creatures.

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future.

The more invested I am in my own ideas about reality, the more those experiences will feel like victimizations rather than the ups and downs of relating. Actually, I believe that the less I conceptualize things that way, the more likely it is that people will want to stay by me, because they will not feel burdened, consciously or unconsciously, by my projections, judgments, entitlements, or unrealistic expectations.

Jon Krakauer

Happiness is only real when shared.

I now walk into the wild.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

We like companionship, see, but we can't stand to be around people for very long. So we go get ourselves lost, come back for a while, then get the hell out again.

Mr. Franz, I think careers are a 20th century invention and I don't want one.

You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships. God has placed it all around us. It is in everything and anything we might experience. We just have to have the courage to turn against our habitual lifestyle and engage in unconventional living.

The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

What if I were smiling and running into your arms? Would you see then what I see now?

Nisargadatta Maharaj

It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves

You will receive everything you need when you stop asking for what you do not need.

Once you realize that the road is the goal and that you are always on the road, not to reach a goal, but to enjoy its beauty and its wisdom, life ceases to be a task and becomes natural and simple, in itself an ecstasy.”

Don’t try to understand! It’s enough if you do not misunderstand

The consciousness in you and the consciousness in me, apparently two, really one, seek unity and that is love.

A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your 
mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does 
self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and 
steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles 
without any effort on your part.