Copy and paste from my Facebook 'Favorite Quotations' list. May add more later.


“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” - John Green

“Everyone is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it’s stupid.” - Albert Einstein

“You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.” - Robert A. Heinlein

“Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” - Henry David Thoreau

The question is not, "Can they reason" nor, "Can they talk," but rather, "Can they suffer?" - Jeremy Bentham

"There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality." - Seneca

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent” - Victor Hugo

"We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." - Charles Bukowski

"A human being is a part of a whole, called by us 'universe', a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest... a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty." - Albert Einstein

"Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice." - Charles Bukowski