Think - Quotes
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it`s such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
Free will is an illusion. Our wills are simply not of our own making. Thoughts and intentions emerge from background causes of which we are unaware and over which we exert no conscious control. We do not have the freedom we think we have.
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?
By definition, a world constructed from the familiar is a world in which there's nothing to learn. If personalization is too acute, it could prevent us from coming into contact with the mind-blowing, preconception-shattering experiences and ideas that change how we think about the world and ourselves.
I do not fear death. I fear suffering. And I fear old age, though less so now that I am witnessing the tranquil and pleasant old age of my father. I am afraid of frailty, and of the absence of love. But death does not alarm me. It did not scare me when I was young, and I thought at the time that this was because it was such a remote prospect. But now, at sixty, the fear has yet to arrive. I love life, but life is also struggle, suffering, pain. I think of death as akin to a well-earned rest.
We thought we were young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.
I personally don`t think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you`re better at, because you try harder in it.
What is the difference between a man and a parasite? A man builds, a parasite asks `Where`s my share?` A man creates, a parasite says `What will the neighbors think?` A man invents, a parasite says `Watch out, or you might tread on the toes of God..."
Not that I don`t like smiling, but I think it`s really hard to smile when you don`t mean it.
The young people think the old people are fools - but the old people know the young people are fools.
As you get older, I think you'll find that the real reason we have birthday celebrations is not because it's important to the birthday girl/boy, but that it's important to people who care about them.