Myself - Quotes
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.
I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.
Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.
And pray that I may forget
These matters that with myself I too much discuss
Too much explain
Because I do not hope to turn again
Let these words answer
For what is done, not to be done again
May the judgement not be too heavy upon us
Because these wings are no longer wings to fly
But merely vans to beat the air
The air which is now thoroughly small and dry
Smaller and dryer than the will
Teach us to care and not to care
Teach us to sit still.
I don`t like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.
Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more.
I steeled myself to focus only on the present yet remain alert to what might come next.
I need to rebel against myself. It`s the opposite of following your bliss. I need to do what I most fear.
My generation is on the way out, and each death I have felt as an abruption, a tearing away of part of myself. There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.
You are the only thing I have that is neither duty nor obligation, the only thing I chose for myself. The only thing I want.
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: `If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?` And whenever the answer has been `No` for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, `I am going to produce a work of art`. I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing.