xstasis - quotes

We've had a near life experience - Tyler Durden, Fight Club

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation - Andre Gide

Another day, another carrot... - Bugs Bunny

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. - Rabindranath Tagore

If I am not for myself who is for me? But if I'm for myself alone, who am I? - Rabbi Hillel

If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti

To be AND not to be...That is the answer. - Kevin Darbro

Nature abhores a vacuum, and if only I can walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled - Henri Thoreau

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do." - Freys Stark

"I've strived for some time to develop a lifestyle that does not require my presence." - Rajneesh

"There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity." - Gn Douglas McCarthur.

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

The more fondly we imagine something will live for ever the more ephemeral it often proves to be - Iain Banks.

And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards - Sooren K Eerkgaard

Not one shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. - Brendan Gill

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.
- John Fowles, The Magus

Accident is the creator of life - Charles Darwin

"A man with a pelican on his head is not much of a man, but a pelican with a man on his head is some pelican." - Benny Guerriero

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A rat would probably be killed, though it can fall safely from the eleventh story of a building, a man is broken, a horse splashes. - J. B. S. Haldane, On Being the Right Size.

'Slide' - Penguin, Fight Club.

You and I are but earth - Daniel Waterhouse, Quicksilver, Neal Stephenson

The opposite of love, art, pleasure and life is indifference. - Elie Wiesel

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together. - William Shakespeare

In the end, everything is a gag - Charlie Chaplin