Soul Pancake Quotes

"Man is a being with free will, therefore each man is potentially good or evil, and it's up to him and only him, through his reasoning mind to decide which he wants to be." Ayn Rand

"There is nothing that makes it's way more directly into the soul than beauty." Joseph Addison

"The life of the creative man is led, directed, and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes." Saul Steinberg

"Every block of stone has a statue inside it, and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it." Michelangelo

"Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties." Erich Fromm

"Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things." Ray Bradbury

"The main thing is to pay attention, pay clear attention to everything you see. Notice what no one else notices, and you'll know what no one else knows." Loris Harrow

"A Columbia University study suggests that the guilt we often feel right after making "indulgent" choices or mistakes passes as quickly as it flares up. However, regrets over missed opportunities rarely fade; in fact, they increase over time." Fox News

"A man's errors are his portals of discovery." James Joyce

"Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit." Vince Lombardi

"Everything can be taken from a man or a woman but one thing: the last of human freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way." Viktor E. Frankl

"To get from ordinary to extraordinary takes a little...extra. And with a little extra effort, you can find beauty anywhere." Soul Pancake

"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence." Aristotle

"If you observe a really happy man, you will find him building a boat, educating his child, growing double dahlias or looking for dinosaur eggs in the Gobi Desert. He will not be searching for happiness as if it were a collar button that had rolled under the radiator, striving for it as a goal in itself. He will have become aware that he is happy in the course of living life 24 crowded hours of each day." W. Beran Wolfe

"Marry your best friend. Someone who constantly makes you laugh. Someone who will begin and end each day with a kiss. Someone who wants to make it work with you...no matter what. Someone who moves you as if you were sitting in a church pew singing hymns to God." Heather Armstrong

"Love is or it ain't. Thin love ain't love at all." Toni Morrison

"When entering into a marriage, one ought to ask oneself: Do you believe you are going to enjoy talking with this woman up into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory, but most of the time you are together will be devoted to conversation." Friedrich Nietzsche

"The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love." Hilary Stanton Zunin

"Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly." Sam Keen

"The minute I heard my first love story I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along." Jalal Ad-din Muhammad Rumi

"People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life." Elizabeth Gilbert

"The most wasted of all days is one without laughter." E.E. Cummings

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, Heaven or Hell." Buddha

"It is not only what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." Moliere

"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

"Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt." William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

"If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia." Thomas S. Szasz

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new." Brian Tracy

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." Jonathan Swift

"This is a beautiful planet and not at all fragile. It can withstand significant volcanic eruptions, tectonic cataclysms, and ice ages.  But this canny, intelligent, prolific and extremely self-centered human creature had proven himself capable of more destruction of life than mother nature herself...We've got to be stopped." Michael L. Fischer

"One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others." Lewis Carroll

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled." Barack Obama

"Our souls are hungry for meaning, for the sense that we have figured out how to live so that our lives matter, so that the world will be at least a little bit different for our having passed through it." Rabbi Harold Kushner

"You know you are on the road to success if you would do your job and not be paid for it." Oprah Winfrey

"To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...the leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded." Ralph Waldo Emerson