Random Quotes

I have this terrible habit of writing quotes down on sticky notes and posting them all over the place, but never doing anything with them... so here are the ones that are covering my work desk. Now I can throw all these post-its away! :)

~Dave Matthews (lyrics):
*If you hold on tight to what you think is your thing, you may find you're missing all the rest
*Strange evolution, how people have come to believe that we are its greatest achievement. Really we're just a collection of cells, overrating ourselves.
*If you give, you begin to live, you get the world... but you might die trying.
*There's always someone that tries to convince you that they know the answer no matter the question. Be weary of those who believe in a neat little world, cuz it's just fucking crazy, you know that it is.

~Fight Club: The things you own end up owning you.

~Walter Rauschenbusch: It is not a matter of getting individuals into heaven, but of transforming the life on earth into the harmony of heaven.

~John Quincy Adams: If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.

~Thoreau: The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.

~Jack Kerouac: The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

~Eminem: if you had one shot, or one opportunity, to seize everything you ever wanted would you capture it? Or let it slip?

~AJ Hoge/Hobopoet:
*Radical simplification of your life is the key to freedom, ease, and autonomy.
*Work is the single most oppressive reality we face.
*That's the difference between financial freedom and wage slavery. Your economic dependence always takes precedence over your principles.
*Quite often is seems that no one is 'paying attention', that everyone is hoarding their consciousness--Why?  Saving it for a rainy day? And damping down the fires of awareness lest all available fuel be consumed in a single holocaust of unbearable knowing.
* The truth is, you can't predict anything. I've been shocked by so many unexpected failures and successes that I've realized that debate prior to action is nothing short of asinine idiocracy. Save analyzing and planning for after the fact... when you have something concrete to analyze.
*Choose growth over safety.

~Charles Bukowski: We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us

~Alan Watts: Failure of nerve is really failure to trust oneself.

~The greatest discovery one can make is that nothing is impossible.