Two years he walks the earth. No phone, no pool, no pets, no cigarettes. Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road. So now, after two rambling years comes the final and greatest adventure. The climactic battle to kill the false being within and victoriously conclude the spiritual revolution. No longer to be poisoned by civilization, he flees, and walks alone upon the land to become lost in the wild.
-Alexander Supertramp, May 1992
Truth is bully we all pretend to like.
-Shantaram
The truth is that there are no good men, or bad men,' he said, 'It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds and there are bad deeds. Men are just men —it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good or evil. The truth is that an instant of real love, in the heart of anyone —the noblest of man alive or the most wicked— has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-folds of its passion. The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God.
-Shantaram
We are here to make a dent in the universe. Otherwise why even be here?
-Steve Jobs
So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
-Chris Mccandless
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Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
I just got this mail today and I loved it. Selected quotes from a beautiful book, The Monk who sold his Ferrari.
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (1998)
Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. Failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.
Self-mastery and the consistent care of one's mind, body and soul are essential to finding one's highest self and living the life of one's dreams.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.
The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.
The less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come; with one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.
The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.
Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. The best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it. This is the way to lasting personal mastery and to realize the true potential of your human endowments.
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
The real source of happiness can be stated in a word: achievement.
You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.
Never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do.
Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Stay focused on your purpose. The Universe will take care of everything else.
The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness.
The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.
The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
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The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari (1998)
Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. Failure, whether of the personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.
Self-mastery and the consistent care of one's mind, body and soul are essential to finding one's highest self and living the life of one's dreams.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens.
There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.
The mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master.
The less you focus on the end result, the quicker it will come; with one eye fixed on the destination, there is only one left to guide you along the journey.
The secret of happiness is simple: find out what you truly love to do and then direct all of your energy towards doing it. Once you do this, abundance flows into your life and all your desires are filled with ease and grace.
Most people live within the confines of their comfort zone. The best thing you can do for yourself is regularly move beyond it. This is the way to lasting personal mastery and to realize the true potential of your human endowments.
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self.
The purpose of life is a life of purpose.
The real source of happiness can be stated in a word: achievement.
You will never be able to hit a target that you cannot see.
Never do anything because you have to. The only reason to do something is because you want to and because you know it is the right thing for you to do.
Never neglect to see the exquisite beauty in all living things. Stay focused on your purpose. The Universe will take care of everything else.
The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.
Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness.
The only way to improve tomorrow is to know what you did wrong today.
The Universe favors the brave. When you resolve to lift your life to its highest level, the strength of your soul will guide you to a magical place with magnificent treasures.
Failing to plan is planning to fail.
Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Quotes again!
Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,its about learning to dance in the rain.
-Anonymous
Certain young men, of which I was one, lecture patient girl friends about how such a life of purity and denial makes perfect sense.
-Roger Ebert referring to Into the Wild
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
-David Blaine
The first right on earth is the right of the ego.
-Howard Roark from The Fountainhead
Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.
-Muhammad Ali
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
-David Blaine
02/12/2009
This is what I learned about what being a writer meant in the early 1960s:
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published. A writer has a duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation.. A writer understands about things with alarming names, like semiotics, epistemology, neoconcretism. When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works. When invited to say what he is reading at the moment, a writer always mentions a book no one has ever heard of.
-Paulo Coelho
17/01/2010
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
-Woody Guthrie
10/05/2010
I really believe what happens in the writing experience happens in the reading experience. If there is velocity in the writing, then there will be the same sort of momentum in the reading process.
-Micheal Connelly
26/05/2010
We just didn't read poetry. We let it drip through our tongues, like honey. Spirits soared, women swooned and Gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, is it?
John Keating in The Dead Poets' Society
-Anonymous
Certain young men, of which I was one, lecture patient girl friends about how such a life of purity and denial makes perfect sense.
-Roger Ebert referring to Into the Wild
In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by our own minds.
-David Blaine
The first right on earth is the right of the ego.
-Howard Roark from The Fountainhead
Allah is the Greatest. I'm just the greatest boxer.
-Muhammad Ali
We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
-David Blaine
02/12/2009
This is what I learned about what being a writer meant in the early 1960s:
A writer always wears glasses and never combs his hair. Half the time he feels angry about everything and the other half depressed. He says very 'deep' things. He always has amazing ideas for the plot of his next novel, and hates the one he has just published. A writer has a duty and an obligation never to be understood by his own generation.. A writer understands about things with alarming names, like semiotics, epistemology, neoconcretism. When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works. When invited to say what he is reading at the moment, a writer always mentions a book no one has ever heard of.
-Paulo Coelho
17/01/2010
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a darn. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
-Woody Guthrie
10/05/2010
I really believe what happens in the writing experience happens in the reading experience. If there is velocity in the writing, then there will be the same sort of momentum in the reading process.
-Micheal Connelly
26/05/2010
We just didn't read poetry. We let it drip through our tongues, like honey. Spirits soared, women swooned and Gods were created, gentlemen. Not a bad way to spend an evening, is it?
John Keating in The Dead Poets' Society
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Quotable Quotes
Practice, Persistence, Patience...Perfection.
-Anonymous
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
-Holden Caulifield in The Catcher in the Rye
You see things and you say, "Why?". But I dream things which never were; and I say "Why not?".
-George Bernard Shaw
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific
-Adolf Hitler
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
—Barbra Streisand
It is nice when people want you. But it is better when people fight over you.
-Sourced from iCon
There are two ways to live your life: one, as if nothing is a miracle and the other, as if everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
A leader leads by example not by force.
-Sun Tzu
I don't suffer from Insanity...I enjoy every moment of it.
-Anonymous
Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
-Sourced from The Pursuit of Happyness
Girls are beautiful, let's face it, and life is quite, quite worthless without them.
-Sourced from Five Point Someone
Success is the measuring rod for differentiating between the good and the not so good.
-Anonymous
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
The real source of happiness can be stated in a word: achievement.
-Sourced from The Monk who Sold his Ferrari
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
-Sourced from Love Story
God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.
-Sourced from Wings of Fire
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Edison
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
-Richard Feynman
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill
There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
-Sourced from Shantaram
I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
-Sourced from Gladiator
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
-Adolf Hitler
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
-Albert Einstein
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
-Steve Jobs
-Anonymous
Human subtlety...will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature, because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.
-Leonardo Da Vinci
Anyway, I keep picturing all these little kids playing some game in this big field of rye and all. Thousands of little kids, and nobody's around — nobody big, I mean — except me. And I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy.
-Holden Caulifield in The Catcher in the Rye
You see things and you say, "Why?". But I dream things which never were; and I say "Why not?".
-George Bernard Shaw
Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
-Joshua J. Marine
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific
-Adolf Hitler
A human being is only interesting if he's in contact with himself. I learned you have to trust yourself, be what you are, and do what you ought to do the way you should do it. You have got to discover you, what you do, and trust it.
—Barbra Streisand
It is nice when people want you. But it is better when people fight over you.
-Sourced from iCon
There are two ways to live your life: one, as if nothing is a miracle and the other, as if everything is a miracle.
-Albert Einstein
A leader leads by example not by force.
-Sun Tzu
I don't suffer from Insanity...I enjoy every moment of it.
-Anonymous
Don't ever let someone tell you, you can't do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you got to protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they want to tell you you can’t do it. You want something, go get it. Period.
-Sourced from The Pursuit of Happyness
Girls are beautiful, let's face it, and life is quite, quite worthless without them.
-Sourced from Five Point Someone
Success is the measuring rod for differentiating between the good and the not so good.
-Anonymous
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
-Arthur C. Clarke
The real source of happiness can be stated in a word: achievement.
-Sourced from The Monk who Sold his Ferrari
Love means never having to say you're sorry.
-Sourced from Love Story
God has not promised Skies always blue, Flower-strewn pathways All our life through; God has not promised Sun without rain, Joy without sorrow, Peace without pain.
-Sourced from Wings of Fire
Restlessness is discontent — and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man — and I will show you a failure.
-Thomas Edison
Obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
-Michael Jordan
I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
-Richard Feynman
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
-Winston Churchill
There is no man, and no place, without a war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
-Sourced from Shantaram
I knew a man once who said, "Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back."
-Sourced from Gladiator
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
-Adolf Hitler
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
-Albert Einstein
Stay hungry. Stay foolish.
-Steve Jobs
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