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I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I`m always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
There are always outside forces trying to tell you what to do. (...) Shut yourself off from anyone who wants to run the show, and run it yourself.
I didn`t want to be the lead guy. That`s too much work. But I thought that it might be fun to be the lead guy`s friend. I`d have days off and still get a paycheck every week.
If you look confident, you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you`re doing.
I was having a bad day, and my friend said, "Go wash your hair." I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
It`s better to be bold than meek. [...] If you jump off a cliff at least you`ll fly before you fall.
Nobody understands the world they`re in, but some people are better off at it than others.
Send a boat off and you`ll see that I`m not an island but an iceberg.
I don`t wanna say goodbye
it`s tearing me up inside
I just can`t get you off my mind
And now I`m gonna be up all night.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
We philosophers are mistake specialists. (I know, it sounds like a bad joke, but hear me out.) While other disciplines specialize in getting the right answers to their defining questions, we philosophers specialize in all the ways there are of getting things so mixed up, so deeply wrong, that nobody is even sure what the right questions are, let alone the answers. Asking the wrongs questions risks setting any inquiry off on the wrong foot. Whenever that happens, this is a job for philosophers! Philosophy - in every field of inquiry - is what you have to do until you figure out what questions you should have been asking in the first place.
Whenever you’re looking for a solution, you are feeling positive emotion - and whenever you’re looking at a problem, you’re feeling negative emotion, which, as you know, never gets us anywhere. But once you take the focus off yourself and your wants, and instead turn it toward how getting what you want might also benefit someone else, well then, you can’t help but succeed.