all my quotes from facebook

since i've been slumming so hard (completely uninspired right now) i thought i would post this, my quotes from facebook, all of which i thoroughly love. I feel like these quotes have been amassed as I have developed myself as a person, and they kind of document the changes, each quote signifies a point where i shifted direction in terms of how my perspectives and thought processes grow and change... i live by the first one, it's the one that keeps me going when i feel like shit. blah blah blah... read and enjoy

"Some observers have been led to comment on a 'childlike' or 'primative' quality in a creative individual. He is childlike and primative in the sense that he has not been trapped by the learned rigidities that immobilize the rest of us."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
-Jimi Hendrix

"The only way to fight the inevitability of death is to stay young through daily challenges, both physical and mental."
-philosophy of Arakawa and Madeline Gins

"Yes, I know my enemies:
They're the teachers that taught me to fight me;
Compromise, conformity, assimilation, submission, ignorance, hypocricy, brutality, the elite...
ALL OF WHICH ARE AMERICAN DREAMS."
- Rage

"Now you may look around and see two groups here: white collar, blue collar.
But i don't see it that way.
You know why not?
Because I am collar blind."
-Steve Carell from the Office

"Those who would sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."
-Interpretation of Benjamin Franklin

"A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
-Albie Einstein

"Most people think
great God will come from the sky
Take away everything
and make everybody feel high
But if you know what life is worth
you will look for yours on earth
And now you see the light
to stand up for your rights."
-The late great Robert Nesta Marley (Get Up Stand Up)

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but looking outward together in the same direction..."
- Antoine de Sainte d'Exupery, The Little Saint

"Those who dance are considered insane by those who can't hear the music."
-George Carlin

"It is not your environment, it is you - the quality of your soul, and the determination of your will - that will decide your future and shape your life."
-Benjamin Elijah Mays

"Be who you are and say what you feel,
because those who mind don’t matter
and those who matter don’t mind."
-Dr. Seuss

"The secret is here in the present. If you pay attention to the present, you can improve upon it. And, if you improve on the present, what comes later will also be better. Forget about the future, and live each day according to teachings...Each day, in itself, brings with it an eternity."
-Eldest seer in the oasis in the Alchemist

"...the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
-Franklin Delano Roosevelt

"Real artists do what the fuck they want!!"
- Kanye West

If we ascribe wholly to any one man's philosophies, we are indeed fools.

You can lie to anyone on earth, but you can't lie to yourself.