Bob Dylan (the best since universe, (my man), a sensual song and dance man with hunger, with passion, with wisdom and I'm contemporary with this person OMG )
"It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be."
"True love can make a blade of grass
Stand up straight and tall
In harmony with the cosmic sea
True love needs no company
It can cure the soul, it can make it whole
"You don’t want all of her love, just a little bit. A little bit at a time, consistently—day and night spaced out over years. That’s all you ask."
"First, what downtrodden woman with no future, battered around by the whims of a cruel society, wouldn’t be better off as one of a rich man’s wives—taken care of properly, rather than friendless on the street depending on government stamps? And second, when did I ever posit that the polygamist marriage had to be male singular female plural? Have at it, ladies. There’s another glass ceiling for you to break."
Charles Bukowski
"Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness"
"Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around."
"Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone."
"beware the average man the average woman
beware their love, their love is average
seeks average"
Gay Paree
the cafes in Paris are just like you imagine
they are:
very well-dressed people, snobs, and
the snob-waiter comes up and takes your
order
as if you were a
leper.
but after you get your wine
you feel better
you begin to feel like a snob
yourself
and you give the guy at the next table
a sidelong glance
he catches you and
you twitch your nose
a bit as if you had just smelled
dogshit
then you
look away.
and the food
when it arrives
is always too mild.
the French are delicate with their
spices.
and
as you eat and drink
you realize that everybody is
terrorized:
too bad
too bad
such a lovely city
full of
cowards.
then
more wine brings more
realization:
Paris is the world and the world
is
Paris.
drink to it
and
because of
it.
"Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life."
"I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me. The thought of being a lawyer or a councilman or an engineer, anything like that, seemed impossible to me. To get married, to have children, to get trapped in the family structure. To go someplace to work every day and to return. It was impossible. To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.”
"the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. "
"as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a Saturday."
"I needed a vacation. I needed 5 women. I needed to get the wax out of my ears. My car needed an oil change. I'd failed to file my damned income tax. One of the stems had broken off of my reading glasses. There were ants in my apartment. I needed to get my teeth cleaned. My shoes were run down at the heels. I had insomnia. My auto insurance had expired. I cut myself every time i shaved. I hadn't laughed in 6 years. I tended to worry when there was nothing to worry about. And when there was something to worry about, i got drunk."
"How do you know that you’re the one? You don’t know. It’s a shot in the dark. You take it, or you become a normal civilized person from eight to five. Get married, have children; Christmas together, here comes Grandma, 'Oh, hi, Grandma! Come on in. Hi, you.' You know. Shit, I couldn’t take that, I’d rather murder myself (laughs). I guess just in the blood of me I couldn’t stand the whole thing that’s going on, the ordinariness of life. I couldn’t stand family life, I couldn’t stand job life, I couldn’t stand anything I looked at. I just decided I either had to starve, make it, go mad, come through, or do something. Even if I hadn’t made it on writing – I could not do the eight to five. I would have been a suicide, something. Something, I’m sorry. I could not accept the snail’s pace, eight to five, Johnny Carson, Happy Birthday, Christmas, New Year…to me this is the sickest of all sick things."
"I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles."
George Michael
I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits."
"I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?"
Thich Nhat Hanh
"For me, there is no happiness without freedom, and freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice”
"One of the greatest gifts we can offer people is to embody nonattachment and nonfear. This is a true teaching, more precious than money or material resources. Many of us are very afraid, and this fear distorts our lives and makes us unhappy. We cling to objects and to people like a drowning person clings to a floating log."
"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."
"The more you understand, the more you love; the more you love, the more you understand. They are two sides of one reality. The mind of love and the mind of understanding are the same."
"When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"
“In true love, you attain freedom."
"In true love, you attain freedom. When you love, you bring freedom to the person you love. If the opposite is true, it is not true love. You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free. "
"The desire to understand ourselves and to understand life is a deep thirst. There’s also the deep thirst to be loved and to love"
"When you produce a thought of hatred, anger, or despair, it harms you, and it also harms the world. None of us wants to be continued like that. We all want to produce thoughts of compassion, understanding, and love. "
"Happiness means feeling you are on the right path every moment. You don’t need to arrive at the end of the path in order to be happy. The right path refers to the very concrete ways you live your life in every moment."
"We are aware that our joy, peace, freedom, and harmony are the joy, peace, freedom, and harmony of our ancestors, our children, and their children."
"A summer breeze can be very refreshing; but if we try to put it in a tin can so we can have it entirely to ourselves, the breeze will die. Our beloved is the same. He is like a breeze, a cloud, a flower. If you imprison him in a tin can, he will die. Yet many people do just that. They rob their loved one of his liberty, until he can no longer be himself. They live to satisfy themselves and use their loved one to help them fulfill that. That is not loving; it is destroying"
"True love is something that helps you suffer less and helps the other person to suffer less. True love is something that makes you happy and makes the other person happy. True love can help you to have more freedom "
"Someone who can understand our suffering is our best friend. We listen to each other. We are there for each other. Otherwise, the coming together of two bodies becomes routine and monotonous after a time"
"Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made. A mind without anger is cool, fresh, and sane."
"In our society, we’re inclined to see doing nothing as something negative, even evil. But when we lose ourselves in activities, we diminish our quality of being. We do ourselves a disservice. It’s important to preserve ourselves."
"Your good intentions are not enough; you have to be artful."
"Doing nothing brings about quality of being, which is very important."
"When we feed and support our own happiness, we are nourishing our ability to love. That’s why to love means to learn the art of nourishing our happiness."
Jack Kerouac
"but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love; he didn’t care one way or the other, “so long’s I can get that lil ole gal with that lil sumpin down there tween her legs, boy,” and “so long’s we can eat, son, y’ear me? I’m hungry, I’m starving, let’s eat right now!"
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
"colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization."
"Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
"I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work"
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.”
"Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much." Jack Kerouac
Clint Eastwood
"I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things."
"I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality."
David Hawkins
" the process of becoming successful is one of becoming sensitive, observant, and aware. In the process of becoming conscious, of widening our actual field of vision, we will observe that the reason most people are not successful is because they literally can’t see."
"Love is misunderstood to be an emotion; actually, it is a state of awareness, a way of being in the world, a way of seeing oneself and others."
Erich Fromm
“True love is like a pair of socks: you gotta have two and they've gotta match."
“Hatred is a passionate wish for destruction; love is a passionate affirmation of an "object"; it is not an "affect" but an active striving and inner relatedness, the aim of which is the happiness, growth, and freedom of its object. It is a readiness which, in principle, can turn to any person and object including ourselves.”
"Whether a carpenter makes a table, or a goldsmith a piece of jewelry, whether the peasant grows his corn, or the painter paints a picture, in all types of creative work the worker and his object become one, man unites himself with the world in the process of creation. This, however, holds true only for productive work, for work in which I plan, produce, see the result of my work. In the modern work process of a clerk, the worker on the endless belt, little is left of this uniting quality of work. The worker becomes an appendix to the machine or to the bureaucratic organization. He has ceased to be he—hence no union takes place beyond that of conformity."
"Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person in the essence of his or her being. In essence, all human beings are identical. We are all part of One; we are One.”
"If one wants to become a master in any art, one's whole life must be devoted to it, or at least related to it. One's own person becomes an instrument in the practice of the art, and must be kept fit, according to the specific functions it has to fulfill. With regard to the art of loving, this means that anyone who aspires to become a master in this art must begin by practicing discipline, concentration and patience throughout every phase of his life.”
"The only way in which the world can be grasped ultimately lies, not in thought, but in the act, in the experience of oneness. "
"Love is not primarily "caused" by a specific object, but a lingering quality in a person which is only actualized by a certain "object.”
'To be fully awake is the condition for not being bored, or being boring—and indeed, not to be bored or boring is one of the main conditions for loving. To be active in thought, feeling, with one's eyes and ears, throughout the day, to avoid inner laziness, be it in the form of being receptive, hoarding, or plain wasting one's time, is an indispensable condition for the practice of the art of loving.”
“Automatons cannot love; they can exchange their “personality packages” and hope for a fair bargain.”
“In the view of the wise, Heaven is man and Earth woman: Earth fosters what Heaven lets fall.”
“l’amour est l’enfant de la liberté” love is the child of freedom
Khalil Gibran
"All can hear, but only the sensitive can understand." "Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.”
Harrison Ford
"Romantic love is one of the most exciting and fulfilling kinds of love and I think there is potential for it at any stage of your life."
"I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges."Harrison Ford
Ernest Hemingway Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do. About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better. Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you. Work could cure almost anything Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene
Ernest Hemingway Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place then come down and shoot the survivors. Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire. I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen. Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead. All cowardice comes from not truly loving, or at least, not loving well To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors. Ronda is the place where to go, if you are planning to travel to Spain for a honeymoon or for being with a girlfriend. The whole city and its surroundings are a romantic set. ... Nice promenades, good wine, excellent food, nothing to do. About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it. The first and final thing you have to do in this world is to last it and not be smashed by it You ought to dream. All our biggest businessmen have been dreamers. When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature that every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them. I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better. Be fully in the moment, open yourself to the powerful energies dancing around you. Work could cure almost anything Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene