A.S. Neill Quotes

The universe runs on a fundamental and oh-so-wonderful principle... when you get really clear and honest about what you want, everything in the universe conspires to help you get it.

After all, it's not where a man lands that marks his punishment. Its how far he falls.

You can teach an old dog new tricksif the old dog wants to learn.

Generally speaking, it's a very hard thing to wrap your head around that a drone operator in Nevada can be releasing munitions in the Middle East.

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

We live in a world of thought, but we think we live in a world of external experience.

If a stick is floating down a river and gets stuck, it doesn't need years of therapy. It just needs a little nudge and then it will get back into the flow of the river.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Take from others what you want, but never be a disciple of anyone.

I went to Ohio University studying arts and history, and playing football. But I was only interested in girls, my pals and sports. I only did the minimum for school.

The sea hates a coward.

People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.

When we decide to embark in the service of God, great things begin to happen in our life and the lives of people around us. We learn of Him. We come unto Him.

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

There's nothing you need to do, be, have, get, change, practice, or learn in order to be happy, loving and whole.

And by letting go of trying to control the uncontrollable...you ironically increase...the probability of getting what you want.

He slept that night thinking of loves and lighthouses. That one love might shine to bring all loves home.

To be fully present with what is, is to be content... and to be content is to be blessed by everything that happens in life.

You aren't afraid of what you think you're afraid of - you're afraid of what you think.

We create other people by how we listen to them

It doesn't matter in the end who wins and loses cause we're just here havin fun. And I'm totally lying. It always matters who wins.

I never once went to a prostitute, maybe because so many enthusiastic amateurs were around.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

You cannot afford to rely on history, you have to make it.

Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

Rock & roll is a type of sensuous music unfit for impressionable minds.

The best thing for them to do (Ireland) is to stay at 0-0 until they score the goal.

If I swung the gavel the way I swung that golf club, the nation would be in a helluva mess.

It starts with a crush, it then may turn into love, and hopefully will end up as soulmates.

The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.

It never occurs to you when you are very young to need something other than what your parents have to offer you.

Whatever you can do with unhappiness, you can do better when you're happy.

When men make gods, there is no God!

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

Adolescents are attracted to tragic heroes. That's why rock stars dress like homeless people. Adolescence is a fall. It's when every child becomes an orphan.

If all you did was tell a lamppost your goals for each day, they would still be far more likely to happen.

I actually think Johannesburg represents the future. My version of what I think the world is going to become looks like Johannesburg.

I think I 'turn off' women. I've a kind of a weird personality. Women may think that I'm a mess.

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

You would not want to be responsible for someone else's happiness, so please do not hold someone else responsible for yours!

Happiness can be just as contagious as misery.

How many times have I told you, don't get caught by the bad guys!

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

A lot of children grow up in poverty with flawed parents, but their inner world is still as inherently filled with wonder and innocence as children who are kept away from the city's underbelly.