All Quotes By Tag: Things

“I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter.”

“He did not use these things anymore, and yet, the thought of letting them go made him sad. He felt they represented times in his life he could not recall without their presence. They represented stories,”

“Smartass Disciple: Where were all things before the time began?Master of Stupidity: What was the time before all things created?”

“Smartass Disciple: Which one was first created, time or things?Master of Stupidity: No things, no changes. No changes, no time.”

“David Foster Wallace: Because I’d like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.”

“Be with the flow, take the flow with you, align and make a rhythm out of it”

“Love makes you do,the best of things.Love makes you do, the worst of things,It’s a feeling extreme,that doesn’t exist in between.”

“Things are always either black or white. The grey in between is only a confusion.”

“It is wiser to love who you are than what you want.”

“Schopenhauer remarked that buying books would be better if you could also buy the time to read them. Books are different from natural objects in that they can overwhelm us in a way that nature’s abundance rarely does. There has always been too much to know; the universe is thoroughly baffling. When we walk into a bookstore, it is easy to feel oppressed by the amount of knowledge on tap. Why don’t we have the same feeling in a forest, at the beach, in a big city, or simply in breathing? There is more going on in our body every second than we will ever understand, and yet we rarely feel bothered by our inability to know it all. Books, however, are designed to make demands on our attention and time: they hail us in ways that nature rarely does. A thing is what Heidegger calls zunichtsgedrängt, relaxed and bothered about nothing. A plant or stone is as self-sufficient as the Aristotelian god or Heidegger’s slacker things, but books are needy. They cry out for readers as devils hunger for souls.”

“Even if things aren’t going the way we want right now, we will always get through it.”

“Day or night, good or bad…all things from within.”

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

“It’s the most simplest of things that will always produce the biggest of smiles.”

“The more material we lose, the less we have. The less we have, the more we win.”