These are some quotes I like
And I don’t care who knows it!
Quotes that inform my worldview (or something like that)…
“You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.”
Alan Watts
“Doubt is uncomfortable, but certainty is ridiculous.”
Voltaire
“The way to become one with the universe is to trust it.”
Alan Watts
“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different”
Kurt Vonnegut
Some practical ones (‘cus I constantly forget the most important 💩)…
“The grass is always greener on the side that’s fertilized with bullshit.”
Morgan Housel
“Who wouldn’t be a mountaineer! Up here, all the world’s prizes seem nothing.”
John Muir
“If [more] information was the answer, then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.”
Derek Sivers
“People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.”
Tim Ferriss
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is better to live your own destiny imperfectly than to live an imitation of somebody else’s life with perfection.”
Liz Gilbert
“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”
Carl Roger
“Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? “
Mary Oliver
Some longer ones (not sure if these are technically even ‘quotes’)
“When is the last time that you had a great conversation? A conversation which wasn’t just two intersecting monologues, which is what passes for conversation a lot in this culture. But when had you last a great conversation in which you overheard yourself saying things that you never knew you knew, that you heard yourself receiving from somebody words that absolutely found places within you that you thought you had lost and a sense of an event of a conversation that brought the two of you on to a different plain, and then fourthly, a conversation that continued to sing in your mind for weeks afterwards.”
John O’Donohue – On Being Podcast
“I believe that I am loved beyond measure by a magnificent, complex, amused God who has given me power over practically nothing. Really, very little that I have control over, but what tiny amount I have control over is extremely important.”
Liz Gilbert – The Tim Ferriss Show
Some that I just like (for reasons undisclosed to even me)
“To regret fully is to appreciate how high the stakes are in even the average human life.”
David Whyte
“The opposite of a fact is a falsehood. The opposite of a profound truth is another profound truth.”
Some song lyrics I like a lot…
“I can gather all the news I need from the weather report.”
“Hey, I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.”
Simon & Garfunkel – Only Living Boy in New York
“Well I forget that time don’t hold us for that long… oh that long.”
Goose – Indian River