“My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.” Woody Allen
“If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.” Woody Allen
“I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.”- Woody Allen
“If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.”- Woody Allen
“What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream?”- Woody Allen
“I'd never join a club that would allow a person like me to become a member.” - Groucho Marx
“I've often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me” - Woody Allen
“It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more.”- Woody Allen
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans.” - Woody Allen
“To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.”- Woody Allen
“To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then, one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.”- Woody Allen
“My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality.” - Ethan Hawke
“We're not in Wonderland anymore Alice.” - Charles Manson
“You know, a long time ago being crazy meant something. Nowadays everybody's crazy.” - Charles Manson
"None of us can do it all, but each of us can do something." - John Abrams
"We are lucky to be alive and therefore we should value life. Life is precious. We're never going to get another one. This is it. Don't waste it. Open your eyes. Open your ears.Treasure the experiences that you have and don't waste your time fussing... Try to do as much good as you can now to others. Try to live life as richly as possible during the time that you have left available to you."
"We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here."
"Knowing is not enough, we must apply; willing is not enough, we must do." - Goethe
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
Some things I believe:
-With the exception of very few things, nothing in life is black and white. And if you think the world is black and white - you aren't thinking.
- It is more important to be interested than interesting.
- Listen more. Talk less (really working on this one)
- Listen and learn from the opposition.
Most of us surroung ourselves with like minded people. The result being that we are not encouraged to question our views.
Learning about different cultures, customs, religions, political views is critical to grow.
Here's the catch...
Once you allow yourself to see through other's eyes you quickly descend down the rabbit hole.
Life is never again black and white.
Opening that door is frightening...makes you question and assess all of your beliefs. The process is scary and turns your life upside down.
However, without expanding your mind, you cease to grow.
And then what?
- Humility is noble trait.
- After 30 or so you can no longer blame your parents. It's all on you.