John Quotes
It is easy to love people in memory the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.
It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.
Real friendship or love is not manufactured or achieved by an act of will or intention. Friendship is always an act of recognition.
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
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.
I came here looking for a Great Perhaps, for real friends and a more-than-minor life..
Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
Decide what you want to be....Pay the Price ...And be what you want to be.
What about the rest of your life?"She shrugged. "What about it?""Aren't you worried about, like, forever?""Forever is composed of nows, " she says.
But in that moment I understood what they say about nostalgia, that no matter if you're thinking of something good or bad, it always leaves you a little emptier afterward.
It is worth it to leave behing my minor life for grander maybes-Miles "Pudge
The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
Headline?" he asked."'Swing Set Needs Home, '" I said."'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home, '" he said."'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children, '" I said.
Principled hate is a hell of a lot stronger than "Boy, I wish you hadn't mummified me and thrown me into the lake" hate.
We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are around us.
I alternate between feeling sympathetic toward humanity and being a misanthrope. When I'm sympathetic, it usually means I haven't been around people in awhile.
The long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
The ethos of redemption is realized in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.
Ben, if you get pee in my brand-new car, I am going to cut your balls off."Still peeing, Ben looks over at me smirking. "You´re gonna need a hell of a big knife, bro.
The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfet raigns.
As commonly practiced, philosophy is the attempt to find good reasons for conventional beliefs.
The thing about a spiral is, if you follow it inward, it never actually ends. It just keeps tightening, infinitely.
Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.
One doesn't intentionally to alter the truth, just enhance it and make it more memorable.
Storytellers seldom let facts get in the way of perpetuating a legend, although a few facts add seasoning and make the legend more believable.
It doesn't really matter who said it - it's so obviously true. Bevore you can write anything, you have to notice something.
God is so immense that if he were 'too visible, ' people would give forced compliance without expressing their heart. So God made it possible, in enormous love, for us to live as if he were not there.
Never say you are five feet nine whenyou are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered.Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turnout that there is a God.