Ones - Quotes
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one`s nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.
We choose to live (...) rooting ourselves to a home or a career and using the future as a kind of phony ritual that justifies the present. In this way, we end up spending (as Thoreau put it) "the best part of one`s life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it."
Stupid dreams. Even the good ones are bad, because they remind you how poorly reality measures up.
There's no bond like that betwixt a mum and her wee ones. No one can make yer heart sing louder or yer knees quake more.
Parents were the only ones obligated to love you; from the rest of the world you had to earn it.
It`s always necessary to know when a stage of one`s life has ended. If you stubbornly cling to it after the need has passed, you lose the joy and meaning of the rest.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I`ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one`s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one`s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person`s view requires to be faked. [...] The man who lies to the world, is the world`s slave from then on.
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.
You want to be good for the ones you love, because you know that your time with them will end up being too short, no matter how long it is.
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just... in between.
Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.