QUOTEoftheDay

Thursday
Nov202014

Kiera Cass

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

I hope you find someone you can't live without. I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

No, I’m not choosing him or you. I’m choosing me

It turns out I'm absolutely terrible at staying away from you. It's a very serious problem.

The best people all have some kind of scar.

Love is beautiful fear.

If you don’t want me to be in love with you, you’re going to have to stop looking so lovely. First thing tomorrow I’m having your maids sew some potato sacks together for you.

You get confused by crying women, I get confused by walks with princes.

It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.

You know that you’ve found something amazing, and you want to hold on to it forever; and every second after you have it, you fear the moment you might lose it.

You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.



Wednesday
Nov192014

Susane Colasanti

I'd rather be weird and happy than normal and miserable.

Too bad guys aren’t like Mr. Potato Head Where you can pick and choose which parts you want. Then we might come up with a guy who meets your standards.

I want to be the kind of person who can do that. Move on and forgive people and be healthy and happy. It seems like an easy thing to do in my head. But it's not so easy when you try it in real life.

I can't take it anymore. The waiting. The wanting. Something inside me snaps. I hate myself. I hate that I have to deal with this. I hate my life. And I hate how I can't count on anyone to be completely there when I need them, exactly the way I need them to be.

Where you can never sleep because of noisy brain. It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

No matter how tired you are. It's impossible to accomplish anything but lying here in bed. Frustrated and victimized at three in the morning.

It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.

Even in a bad situation, there's always a positive side. Even if you can't see it yet.


Tuesday
Nov182014

Julio Cortázar

Come sleep with me. We will not make Love, Love will make us.

We were not looking for us, but knowing that we were to meet.

I think everyone has a little of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when all around is so insanely sane.

Books are still the only place in the house where you can still rest easy.

She would smile and show no surprise, convinced as she was, the same as I, that casual meetings are apt to be just the opposite, and that people who make dates are the same kind who need lines on their writing paper, or who always squeeze up from the bottom on a tube of toothpaste.

In quoting others, we cite ourselves.

Memory is a mirror That scandalously lies.

I love that haunts your bridge does not help me because a bridge does not stand on one side . . .


Monday
Nov172014

Ray Bradbury II

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.

Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?"
"Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.

If we listened to our intellect we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go in business because we'd be cynical: "It's gonna go wrong." Or "She's going to hurt me." Or,"I've had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . ." Well, that's nonsense. You're going to miss life. 

We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.



Sunday
Nov162014

Carl Jung II

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if

there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

You are what you do, not what you say you'll do.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.

The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism.

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.

Saturday
Nov152014

Nikola Tesla II

I don't care that they stole my idea . . I care that they don't have any of their own.

If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.

I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success . . . Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.

Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. 


Friday
Nov142014

Tim Burton

One person's craziness is another person's reality.

Everything in this room is edible. Even I'm edible. But, that would be called canibalism. It is looked down upon in most societies.

We all know interspecies romance is weird.

Visions are worth fighting for. Why spend your life making someone else's dreams?

Good morning starshine the earth says hello....

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

Movies are like an expensive form of therapy for me.

Son, are you happy? 
I don't mean to pry,
but do you dream of Heaven?
Have you ever wanted to die?

I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.

Half the fun is plan to plan.


Thursday
Nov132014

Stephen Hawking II

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.

[In the Universe it may be that] Primitive life is very common and intelligent life is fairly rare. Some would say it has yet to occur on Earth.

It surprises me how disinterested we are today about things like physics, space, the universe and philosophy of our existence, our purpose, our final destination. Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.

There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works.


Wednesday
Nov122014

John Lubbock

Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.

All those who love Nature she loves in return, and will richly reward, not perhaps with the good things, as they are commonly called, but with the best things of this world-not with money and titles, horses and carriages, but with bright and happy thoughts, contentment and peace of mind.

The whole value of solitude depends upon oneself; it may be a sanctuary or a prison, a haven of repose or a place of punishment, a heaven or a hell, as we ourselves make it.”

Happiness is a condition of mind not a result of circumstances.

Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

In truth, people can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is wanting.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

A wise system of education will at least teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn.


Tuesday
Nov112014

Niels Bohr

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

There are some things so serious that you have to laugh at them.

How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Stop telling God what to do with his dice.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself it’s own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

The meaning of life consists in the fact that it makes no sense to say that life has no meaning.