“I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.”

Nikola Tesla

Add yours...

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.”

- Leonard Cohen

AND

"No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it."

- Fernando Pessoa (one of my faves)

I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him.

-Martin Luther King, Jr.-

"Don't pamper your vomit."  --Elsa Panizzon 

"When you're inspired to feel pity, offer compassion. Pity stands above someone. Compassion stands beside."

something I saw on Twitter a while ago haha.

"In youth, it was a way I had,
To do my best to please.
And change, with every passing lad
To suit his theories.

But now I know the things I know
And do the things I do,
And if you do not like me so,
To hell, my love, with you."

-- Dorothy Parker

 "Advice is what we ask for when we all ready know the answer but wish we didn't"

Erica Jong 

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. -Anais Nin

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Carl Jung

“I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.”

“We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - you can blame anyone but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change, you're the one who has got to change. It's as simple as that, isn't it?”

“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.”

All three by Katharine Hepburn

"You can't have it all."

Katherine Hepburn

The opposite of a false statement is a true one.

The opposite of a profound truth, however, may very well be another profound truth.

Neils Bohr

No matter where you go; there you are.

Jim Jarmusch movie

We were never exteriorized, we're in an inside--inside an another inside--inside another....

Jane Roberts

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Ben Franklin

Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he chooses to think and talk about other subjects than gaolers and prison walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it.
----J.R.R. Tolkien, answering charges that his novels were "escapist"

Never apologize for your reading tastes.
----Betty Rosenberg

"Whatever his way may take him, the pupil, though he may lose sight of his teacher, can never forget him. With gratitude as great as the uncritical veneration of the beginner, as strong as the saving faith of the artist, he now takes his Master's place, ready for any sacrifice. Countless examples down to the recent past testify that this gratitude far exceeds the measure of what is customary among mankind."

~from Zen and the Art of Archery, by Eugen Herrigel 

"Where love is, no room is too small."

– Talmud

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

*Carl Jung*

I have a few that I found humorous. I hope one of these will tickle your funnybone.

Pretty much anything by Stephen Wright

"If God dropped acid, would he see people?" 

http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~norm/SteveQuotes.html

"I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

 
"There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

In order for us to maintain our way of living, we must, in a broad sense, tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided. When we do allow self-evident truths to percolate past our defenses and into our consciousness, they are treated like so many hand grenades rolling across the dance floor of an improbably macabre party. We try to stay out of harm's way, afraid they will go off, shatter our delusions, and leave us exposed to what we have done to the world and to ourselves, exposed as the hollow people we have become." - Derrick Jensen

"There towers a huge mountain, here lies a boundless ocean, birds are singing, trees are growing, and I sit here looking over the verdant meadow; yet in spite of all these, nay indeed by reason of these, I believe in the nothingness of existence, in the non-reality of realities, and in the absolute oneness of all things; and it is thereby that I gain my peace of mind and realize the sense of perfect freedom in my everyday life." - Shaku Soen

Our imagination flies:

we are it's shadow

on the earth.

-Vladimir Nabokov

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others. - John Adams

Daemonness I'm going to get that Bismarck quote laminated to stick on my fridge. I should also send it to my ex, who (with his Virgo NN) could never eat a sausage without complaining about nitrates, LOL

omie thanks for that Goethe quote. it's one of my favorites and I had forgotten:) 

"The first day of spring was once the time for taking the young virgins into the fields, there in dalliance to set an example in fertility for nature to follow.  Now we just set the clocks an hour ahead and change the oil in the crankcase."  ~E.B. White, "Hot Weather," One Man's Meat, 1944

"I am, at heart, an extremely lazy person."

(My 83 year old Dad,who goes to the gym to lift weights 5X a week. He has Moon/Mars in Taurus) 

Yes! Live! Life's a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!

Auntie Mame

"You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.-- Charles Bukowski

A few of my favorite Gore Vidal quotes-

"It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."

"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn."

"There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise."

"Write something, even if it's just a suicide note"

 “Sex is. There is nothing more to be done about it. Sex builds no roads, writes no novels and sex certainly gives no meaning to anything in life but itself.”

“Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.”

“The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.” 

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?
– Mahatma Gandhi, “Non-Violence in Peace and War”

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.
– Mahatma Gandhi, 1931

these were on Priya Kale's blog the other day. 

Auntie Mame RULES!  Gosh darn it, I couldn't think of anyone for the Who's Your Muse thread the other day, but she's one of them.

When I first started writing in 2000, someone called me Auntie Mame and I didn't know who the hell they were talking about! :)

I had to ask Ben who directed me to the correct version of the movie... ::rolls eyes::

JILLY!  I just posted that exact quote earlier today.  I love Auntie Mame!  And Rosalind Russell.  It must be a Mame kind of day.  

Also I love the Leonard Cohen quote above - I find it comforting, oddly enough.

And my email signature, because I need my Edison:

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.  ~T.A. Edison

"Access to power must be confined to those who are not in love with it."

                                        Plato

The soldier: "Here is one from me."

“Their bosoms they bared to the glorious strife,
Their oath, ’twas recorded on high,
To prevail in a cause that was dearer than life,
Or crushed in its ruins to die.”

ADDRESS DELIVERED AT THE CELEBRATION OF THE BATTLE OF MOORE'S CREEK BRIDGE, FEBRUARY 27, 1857.BYJOSHUA G. WRIGHT, ESQ. 

It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique. And that's what I know for sure…I think.

Ellen DeGeneres

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold. Helen Keller

There are some really good quotes here!!! 

"I have been through many terrible things in my life . . . . . some of which actually happened."

~ Mark Twain 

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"Truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it." George Washington

...so it's not just the 3 Aquarians hahaha

i love carl jung. hes such a genius and has a way with words. A true genius in the field of astrology.

 i like the anais nin one too. gives me chills 

I thought this one was quintessential Libra by Oscar Wilde ( Sun & Venus in Libra)

"Beauty is a form of genius--is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."

i love it. 

"I am I plus my circumstance."-- Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Taurus