A few favorite quotes by a few favorite people

Henry Rollins

half of life is fucking up--the other half is dealing with it

the best revenge is to survive yourself

don't do anything by half. if you love someone, love them. if you hate someone, hate them until it hurts

if i lose the light of the sun, i will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. if i lose paper and ink i will write in blood on forgotten walls. i will write always. i will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you

hope is the last thing a person does before they are defeated

scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. realise the strength, move on

as miserable as life may be i hold it pretty precious

isn't it pathetic that we can fuck but we can't look each other in the eyes

i believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. to not be like your parents. to not be like your friends. to be yourself. to cut yourself out of stone.

Jim Morrison

if my poetry aims to achieve anything, its to deliver people from the limited way in which they see and feel

they claim everyone was born, but i don't recall it. maybe i was having one of my blackouts

expose yourself to your deepest fear. after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. you are free

when you make your peace with authority, you become an authority

whoever controls the media, controls the mind

lets just say i was testing the bounds of reality. i was curious to see what would happen. that's all it was:curiosity.

people are afraid of themselves, of their own reality, their feelings most of all. people talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. love hurts. feelings are disturbing. people are taught that pain is evil and disturbing. how can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? pain is meant to wake us up. people try to hide their pain. but they're wrong. pain is something to carry, like a radio. you feel your strength in the experience of pain.

Maynard James Keenan

don't just call me a pessimist. try and read between the lines

see i think drugs have done some good things for us, i really do, and if you don't believe drugs have done good things for us, do me a favor, go home tonight and take all your albums, all your tapes and all your cd's and burn 'em. 'cause you know what, the musicians who made all that great music that's enhanced your lives throughout the years, Real fucking high on drugs


i think a lot of people whose been sheltered all their life and ignored realities, tend to not really understand the ugly side of nature as being necessary and present

Jewel

i'm going to die or do something i love because i could no longer face consciousness everyday doing something that doesn't fill me with any passion

cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer

reality is a funny thing, you know...reality is what you believe, believe it to be. it's what you put your thought and energy into

in silence you hear who you are becoming. you create yourself

the things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature but by your approach

we sacrificed our pride, compromised our health, we must demand more, not of each other, but from ourselves

Grant Lee Phillips

one of the things that's funny in today's society is the way drugs and guns are automatically associated with hoods and bad people. they're never associated with the government

Friedrich Nietzsche

one is most dishonest to one's god:he is not allowed to sin

'I have done that' says my memory. 'I cannot have done that' says my pride, and remains inexorable. Eventually memory yeilds

one is best punished for one's virtues

talking about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself

perhaps nobody yet has been truthful enough about what truthfulness is

Various other quotes

integrity is telling myself the truth. and honesty is telling the truth to other people.

whoever said love is blind is dead wrong. love is the only thing that lets us see each other with the remotest accuracy.

before you can win, you have to believe you are worthy

we never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public

you can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you

we cannot tempt fate without eventually getting scorched by it

everybody thinks of changing humanity and nobody thinks of changing himself

dreams are extremely important. you can't do it unless you imagine it.

never ruin an apology with an excuse.

we come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly

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