I collect quotations, and keep them here for my own amusement. Here they are:
- “I am here to live out loud!”
-- Emile Zola - “Leave the dishes unwashed and the demands on your time unanswered. Be ruthless and refuse to do what people ask of you.”
-- Lynn Sharon Schwartz - “You were wild once here. Don't let them tame you!”
-- Isadora Duncan - “You don't get to decide how you are going to die. Or when. You can only choose how you're going to live. Now.”
-- Joan Baez - “Once freedom has exploded in the soul of a man, the gods have no more power over him.”
-- Jean-Paul Sartre - “Years ago, a person, he was unhappy, didn't know what to do with himself - he'd go to church, start a revolution - something. Today you're unhappy? Can't figure it out? Go shopping.”
-- Arthur Miller - “In the United States, you have to be deviant, or die from boredom.”
-- William S. Burroughs - “Many people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want to acquire.”
-- Anwar Al-Sadat - “I have nothing to offer anyone except my own confusion.”
-- Jack Kerouac - “When ideas fail, words come in very handy.”
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - “Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.”
-- Benjamin Disraeli - “The men who learn endurance are the ones that call the whole word brother.”
-- Charles Dickens - “It is not the function of our government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the job of the citizen to keep the government from falling into error.”
-- Robert H. Jackson - “There is more to life than increasing its speed.”
-- Mahatma Gandhi - “"By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.”
-- Agesilaus - “To reduce all human activity to a form of labor is to belittle human creative possibility.”
-- Hannah Arendt - “All paid employments absorb and degrade the mind.”
-- Aristotle - “The play concept as such is of a higher order than seriousness, for seriousness seeks to exclude play, whereas play can very well include seriousness.”
-- Johan Huizinga (Homo Ludens) - “Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great examples are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.”
-- Henry Miller - “When we cannot bear to be alone, it means that we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death...ourselves.”
-- Eda LaShan - “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
-- Judy Garland - “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”
-- Helen Keller - “All truly great thoughts have been conceived while walking.”
-- Freidrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can possibly do is to take a complete rest.”
-- Ashleigh Brilliant - “I celebrate myself and sing myself, I loafe and invite my soul...”
-- Walt Whitman