favorite quotes

[JesusTitties]

i used to save and write down/type things in books that i read, along the way that i liked. thought id start a thread about it.
these are mine.






“Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else's list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.”

-- Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever

“From time to time it's fun to close our eyes, and in that dark say to ourselves, 'I am the sorcerer, and when I open my eyes I shall see a world that I have created, and for which I and only I am completely responsible.' Slowly then, eyelids open like curtains lifting stage-center. And sure enough, there's our world, just the way we've built it.”

-- Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever

“That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning.”

-- Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever

“It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost...”

-- Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever


''Passion is powerful...nothing was ever achieved without it, and nothing can take its place. No matter what you face in life, if your passion is great enough, you will find the strength to succeed. Without passion, lifehas no meaning. So put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts...this is the essence of passion. This is the essence of life.''




“I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”

-- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Accept yourself as yourself. If you don't, know that you'll go through: Years of depression, substance abuse, and an endless stream of soul murdering relationships where the other person is too normal to know that they've been with a hollow, mechanical cyborg. And even when you gain some resemblance to materialistic success, you'll never come close to filling the void."

---Colin Quinn