J. Robbins Quotes
If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
The highest men are calm, silent and unknown...The true masters seldom reveal themselves, except in the vibrations the leave behind, and upon which the lesser gurus build their doctrines.
There was a marvelous, dark lyricism in his voice, the kind of defiance that is rooted in deep loneliness.
Are you aware that rushing toward a goal is a sublimated death wish? It's no coincidence we call them 'deadlines.
Win or lose, at least I'm doing something.
When you are clearly-defined, deliberate with intention and operating at your highest level, your brilliance cannot be hidden, diminished or overshadowed.
I may not be perfect, but I am worthy.
Hey, when you love a woman, and when she’s this crazy in love with you, you’ve got to do whatever she says, man.
The only thing of value on this earth is that each of us is an individual and not a cog in a machine. No man is better than another because of circumstance or fortune, but each important to his own.
I figure I'll win the fight in twenty years or so anyways when I end up with a decent life and their unemployed and living at home.
Is that man's fate: to spend his closest hours to truth longing for a lie?
In the minds of their peers, too often students become caricatures of themselves.
Studies have shown that, at least among students, popularity equals visibility.
That's the value of the artist... Even when they aren't aware, they're dreaming our dreams for us.
If teachers are uncomfortable at their own school, they will pass on their uncertainties or negative attitude to students.
Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going
Living on purpose means stopping to make sure your actions still match your big goals.
Being an outsider doesn't necessarily indicate any sort of social failing. We do not view a tuba player as musically challenged if he cannot play the violin.
The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.
He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.
Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.
the greatest men that ever live pass away unknown. they put forth no claims for themselves, establish no schools of systems in their name. they never create or stir but just melt down into love
If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.
Part of the problem is that people at our school don't listen. They just put on the headphones and tune out the world. It's intimidating.
The cafeteria made him feel like an observer rather than a participant in the high school experience.
How could he encapsulate in a pithy admissions-interview line all of his unique ideas and interests?
Besides, if I am truly immortal, I am my own grandchild, my own descendant, my own dynasty. I am not obliged to live on through what I pass down to others.
But man by his nature is an unnatural animal. If any creature stands a chance of defeating death, it is man.
Beer does not satisfy magic, however. So the magic ordered a round of Harvey Wallbangers. But it takes more than vodka to fuel magic. It takes risks. It takes EXTREMES.
She thought of the things that lovely young women usually think about when they are relaxing in treetops and unhampered by underwear.
Many of the differences that cause students to be excluded in school are actually the same qualities or skills that other people are going to admire, respect or value about that person in adulthood.
Adults tell students that it gets better, that the world changes after school, that being 'different' will pay off sometime after graduation. But no one explains to them why.