The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and see simple distinctions - simple once they are stated, vastly difficult before. If we are to follow them we too must be childishly simple in our questions - and maturely wise in our replies.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com... NICK HORNBY Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS It's the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand... PAULO COELHO Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON But alas, the world is not a wish-granting factory. JOHN GREEN Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He called out to his fellow monks,'Come quickly I am tasting stars. JOHN GREEN She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is s... JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN Wow,” I said. “Are you making this up?” “Hazel Grace, could I, with my meager intellect... JOHN GREEN Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the St... JOHN GREEN We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down ... JOHN GREEN So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,”... JOHN GREEN I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will gran... JOHN GREEN «Hazel Grace,” he said, my name new and better in his voice. “It has been a real pleasure to ma... JOHN GREEN Cold,” he said, pressing a finger to my pale wrist. “Not cold so much as underoxygenated,�... JOHN GREEN If he is anything other than a total gentleman, I’m going to gouge his eyes out.” “So you... JOHN GREEN People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he ... JOHN GREEN Augustus: “You probably need some rest.” Me: “I’m okay.” Augustus: “Okay.” (... JOHN GREEN Time's a slut, she screws with everyone. JOHN GREEN como toda pregunta sobre el universo, esta vía de investigación nos obliga inevitablemente a pregu... J.K. ROWLING No puedes escoger si serás lastimado en este mundo, pero si puedes decidir quién te lastima JOHN GREEN But it's your life. JOHN GREEN No matter how hard you kick, no matter how high you get, you can't go all the way round. JOHN GREEN Cancer kids are essentially side effects of the relentless mutation that made the diversity of life ... JOHN GREEN No puedes elegir si van hacerte daño en este mundo, pero sí eliges quién te lo hace. JOHN GREEN you clench your teeth,you look up, you tell yourself that if they see you cry, it will hurt them,and... JOHN GREEN That's the think about pain. It demands to be felt. JOHN GREEN Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. seeing me ... JOHN GREEN Writing does not resurrect. It buries.. JOHN GREEN Pero diré esto: Cuando los científicos del futuro aparezcan en mi casa con ojos robot y me digan q... JOHN GREEN You’re arguing that the fragile, rare thing is beautiful simply because it is fragile and rare. Bu... JOHN GREEN So how’s it going?” “Okay. Glad to be home, I guess. Gus told me you were in the ICU?”<... JOHN GREEN Still perfect,” he said. “Read to me.” “This isn’t really a poem to read aloud when y... JOHN GREEN Life can really be quite simple; we just get in our own way. RICK PRICE Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH But in the end, music is ultimately an aural art, pure and simple. LEO ORNSTEIN Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON That’s what I liked about those nuns. You could tell, for one thing, that they never went anywhere... J.D. SALINGER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ... E.J. PATTEN When the living gets unburdened with needs and desires, the life becomes simple and easy to carry. SHASHI When Luke had descended into the River Styx, he would've had to focus on something important that wo... RICK RIORDAN I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I've led a commo... NICHOLAS SPARKS We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness (often expressed... JOHN H. GROBERG The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in lo... J.D. SALINGER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Art must be parochial in the beginning to be cosmopolitan in the end. GEORGE A. MOORE I was a bit of a Victorian Lady, fainting-wise. JOHN GREEN While I did not fancy myself a particularly good person, I never thought my first real sexual action... JOHN GREEN Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds ou... JOHN GREEN Come over here so I can examine your face with my hands and see deeper into your soul than a sighted... JOHN GREEN But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassiu... JOHN GREEN But this was the truth, a pitiful boy who desperately wanted not to be pitiful, screaming and crying... JOHN GREEN I'm feeling grand. I'm on a rollercoaster only going up. AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS In the end no segregationist scheme has withstood the force of a simple idea: equality under law. ERIC LIU The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... KILROY J. OLDSTER In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is... R.J. GONZALES Running through the maze of life, you come across profound ambiguities and complexities. Yet the ess... ROOPLEEN ...you must understand that not even the Jedi know all there is to be known about the Force; no mort... MATTHEW WOODRING STOVER Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an a... KONSTANTIN STANISLAVISKY Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an a... CONSTANTIN STANISLAVSKI Our demands are simple, normal, and therefore they are difficult to satisfy. All we ask is that an a... KONSTANTIN E. TSIOLKOVSKY Those who worry stumble long The Way. Those who pray have no time to stray. ERROL ANTHONY SMYTHE Now is everything Now is the essence Now is the focus Focus on the now For that ... KAREN HACKEL We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure. FRANCIS OF ASSISI I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise. CHARLES MONTESQUIEU I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise. CHARLES DE MONTESQUIEU Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT We need to embrace every day and enjoy it as much as we can. KAREN TODD SCARPULLA I fear oblivion' he said. "I fear it like a proverbial blind man fears the dark AUGUSTUS WATERS THE FAULT IN OUR STARS We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r... MANDY HALE The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being s... LAO TZU There are impertinent inquiries made; your rule is, to leave the inquirer uninformed on the matter; ... THOMAS CARLYLE Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... SOLANGE NICOLE The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them. PAULO COELHO The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what comple... AYN RAND Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated ... DAVE BARRY It is the simple things that are in the ocean. People think that simple things are on the seashore, ... C. JOYBELL C. The goal in life is not to try and live forever, but to create something that will forever in people... KARON WADDELL We Greeks are lovers of the beautiful, yet simple in our tastes, and we cultivate the mind without l... THUCYDIDES
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ALLAN ADLER The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript... FREDA ADLER It is always self-defeating to pretend to the style of a generation younger than your own; it simply... RENATA ADLER It is the patriotic duty of every man to lie for his country. ALFRED ADLER Love of country is like love of woman -- he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest go... FELIX ADLER That man is a creature who needs order yet yearns for change is the creative contradiction at the he... FREDA ADLER Man know much more than he understands. ALFRED ADLER The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for t... ALFRED ADLER Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, o... RENATA ADLER The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationshi... ALFRED ADLER