Favorite Quotes

This is a collection of quotes and phrases that I found interesting, insightful, or just funny.

Let everything happen.

Just let everything happen because you’re going to know what to do in each moment. Even if it’s a messed up moment, you’re going to learn from it either way it goes. Just follow your path. Let everything happen because it will all make you the person you’re supposed to become.

The most important lesson I’ve learned in my career is deeper than rap. It’s always going to be deeper than rap. I’ve learned there’s a difference between friends and associates. I went from following people to being on my own. Once I was on my own, I watched people start liking me and I watched people stop liking me. Everything was supposed happen. It was all supposed to reveal itself.

Go with the times, but stay true to you. Always be true to you. But learn how to adapt, too. That’s something I wish I did when I was younger. I started adapting and that’s how I’ve been able to stay afloat all these years. It’s important to be adaptable. You’re going to have to learn to be able to change.

— Denzel Curry

They are playing a game. They are playing at not playing a game. If I show them I see they are, I shall break the rules and they will punish me. I must play their game, of not seeing I see the game.

— R.D. Laing

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

— Oscar Wilde

As the man said, for every complex problem, there’s a simple solution, and it’s wrong.

— Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum

Be curious, not judgmental.

— Unknown

Every disadvantage has its advantage.

— Unknown

The opposite of good is not evil; the opposite of good is indifference… where terrible wrongs exist, some are guilty, but all are responsible.

— Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel

Tikkun Olam

— Hebrew phrase meaning “repairing the world”

A man cannot step in the same river twice, for both the man and the river are ever changing.

— Heraclitus

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

— Edmund Burke

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

— Stephen Hawking

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

— Aristotle

If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts—not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs. They may break our bodies (a microbe can do that) but they need not dominate our minds.

— C.S. Lewis

Work hard, study well, eat and sleep plenty.

— Master Roshi

We did not ask for this room,
or this music;
we were invited in.
Therefore,
because the dark surrounds us,
let us turn our faces to the light.
Let us endure hardship
to be grateful for plenty.
We have been given pain
to be astounded by joy.
We have been given life
to deny death.
We did not ask for this room,
or this music.
But because we are here,
let us dance.

— Stephen King and/or Bridget Carpenter

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.

— Abraham Lincoln

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: “If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.”

— G.K. Chesterton