Age Quotes - Page 20

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.

When I was a teenager, I began to settle into school because I'd discovered the extracurricular activities that interested me: music and theater.

In the new computer age, the proliferation of typefaces and type manipulations represents a new level of visual pollution threatening our culture. Out of thousands of typefaces, all we need are a few basic ones, and trash the rest.

The opposite for courage is not cowardice, it is conformity. Even a dead fish can go with the flow.

No wonder psychedelics are threatening to an authoritarian religious hierarchy. You don’t need faith to benefit from a psychedelic experience, let alone a priest or even a shaman to interpret it. What you need is courage—courage to drink the brew, eat the mushroom, or whatever it is, and then to pay attention, and make of it what you will. Suddenly, the tools for direct contact with the transcendent other (whether you call it God or something else) is taken from the hands of an anointed elite and given to the individual seeker.

I never dreamt of being in the movies. I was from a very average, I would say, a rather poor family, so my big treat was to work hard all week - I mowed lawns and babysat and washed dishes and washed cars - to go to the movies.

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

[Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

To begin is the most important part of any quest and by far the most courageous.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

The important word there is inspire. The key difference between managers and leaders is that managers tell people what to do, while leaders inspire them to do it. Inspiration comes from three things: clarity of one's vision, courage of their conviction and the ability to effectively communicate both of those things.

We need more men with the guts, with the courage, with the strength, with the moral integrity to break our complicit silence and challenge each other and stand with women and not against them.

Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.

If you make your relationship with your Inner Being your top priority, and you deliberately choose thoughts that allow your alignment, you will consistently offer the greatest advantage to others with whom you interact. Only when you are aligned with your Source do you have anything to offer another.

Optimism is the true moral courage

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.

A good marriage is where both people feel like they're getting the better end of the deal.

Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

In an age that has thrown off all tradition, the only rebellion possible is orthodoxy.

Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person’s eyes.

It's my view that gender is culturally formed, but it's also a domain of agency or freedom and that it is most important to resist the violence that is imposed by ideal gender norms, especially against those who are gender different, who are nonconforming in their gender presentation.