John Quotes
From being a movement aiming for universal freedom, communism turned into a system of universal despotism. That is the logic of utopia.
Hope is a fruit of proven character.
Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about.
...it was inevitable I loved you - we were soul mates - for the same reason, we were fated to suffer...
...everything I treasure is broken - it's of no use to anybody but me...
Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
...you go back to liberate the captives and sadly realize, some want to remain tied down in the cave...
...the real absurdity is that to love is to suffer, but the reverse isn't always true...
...it's always somebody's fault - I blame you for my helpless love - do you think I chose this? Your beauty compelled me...
...you can't rationalize suffering - it's indeterminate - the real unknowable variable God substitutes in...
He had the charm of all people who believe implicitly in themselves, that of integration.
Who can see twenty-five years into the future?” she had asked. “Your guess is as good as theirs. Confidence is everything.
...don't be self-conscious - other people are completely unaware of you and more concerned with how they appear ...
You are a side effect, " Van Houten continued, "of an evolutionary process that cares little for individual lives. You are a failed experiment in mutation.
This is kind of hard to understand, but sometimes you can try so hard at something.Sometimes you can be so prepared, and still fail.
For thirty minutes I sat back and felt the glimmer of pride that historically precedes the most catastrophic falls.
This is desire, daughter, the endless piercing that informs the universe throughout eternity,
I do not mind when you tell me what you want and put that first instead of last.
Where affluence is the rule, the true threat is the loss of desire, (...) What is new is not that prosperity depends on stimulating demand. It is that it cannot continue without inventing new vices
The only freedom that lasts comes from pursuing what we want when we want what we ought.
Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
I will not exorcise you—I’d miss your fragrance, the soft tread of your step on the stair
I think there are lovely sunsets in hell—and that’s where my desire for you is sending me
I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?
Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow - James Matthew Barrie
Think what it would be like if you got back to your island and there was no old man, no girl any more. No mysterious fun and games. The whole place locked up forever.
If there's no sea-gull there's no meeting, Wicklow had said. No sea-gull means abort. That's my epitaph, thought Barley. 'There was no sea-gull, so he aborted.
She may never be someone ANYONE can understand. But she will always be worth the wait.
In all emotional conflicts, the thing you find the most difficult to do, is the thing that you should do."--Meyer's Law
I'm old, but I'm not good enough to be jaded.
We lie to protect our children, and in lying we expose them to the greatest of harms
I don't understand why you're so obsessed with figuring out everything that happens here, like we have to unravel every mystery.
...I've discovered why you fascinate - you keep the mystery and as Carlyle noted, Wonder is the basis of worship...
Expect little, and we live up to the expectation. Expect a lot, and we stretch and grow to meet the expectation.
The more you teach your people to not need you, the greater your value.
Luckily i went out and just did it, successfully, before i was told that it can't be done!Den-J