everburning

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
— Amulet 4 The Last Council

to exist is to survive unfair choices.
— Khatun (The OA)

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other
person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from
your own.
— Henry Ford

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
— Emerson

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any
kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer
nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
— Etienne de Grellet

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among my people the greatest asset I
possess, and the way to develop the best that is in a person is by appreciation
and encouragement. There is nothing else that so kills the ambitions of a person
as criticisms from superiors. I never criticize anyone. I believe in giving a
person incentive to work. S o I am anxious to praise but loath to find fault. If
I like anything, I am hearty in my approbation and lavish in my praise.
— Charles Schwab

We do not do this thing because it is permitted. We do it because we have to.
We do it because we are compelled.
— Rorschach (The Watchman)

For nature can't be fooled.
— Richard Feynman

I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that
courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked
before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
— To Kill a Mockingbird

Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change -- this is the
rhythem of living. Out of our over-confidence, fear; out of our fear, clearer
vision, fresh hope. And out of hope, progress.
— Bruce Barton

七転び八起き (Fall seven times and stand up eight)
— Japanese Proverb

You think your present sorrow is solid, like a sphere of diamond encasing
your soul. But, the nature of sorrow is closer to that of ice. Ice melts
when warmth is applied.
— Prospero Regained: Propspero's Daughter

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings
total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and
through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
— Litany Against Fear -- Dune

because failure is interesting.
— The Burning Wheel Adventure Burner

You plunge into the challenge wholeheartedly, no matter the danger. You don't
hide or evade.
— The Burning Wheel Adventure Burner

When you accept authority, you must be willing to take responsibility for it at
all times -- even when you don't particularly feel like it.
— Elantris

Be willing to get fired.
— Mike Monteiro

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you
have.
— Anonymous

Wield your anger like a steel fist and smash in their faces.
— All you need is kill

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.
— Foundation

Because the farther down you go, the bigger and scarier the turtles get,
with sharper and sharper beaks. Until eventually they start looking less
like turtles and more like dragons
— Professor March (The Magicians)

it is better to do something than nothing, even if the cost is great.
— Sabriel

Everyone and everything has a time to die.
— Abhorsen (Sabriel)

You should never hesitate to trade your cow for a handful of magic beans.
— Tim Robbins

The best way out is always through.
— Robert Frost

The most important art is to omit.
— Robert Louis Stevenson

We are all inventors, each sailing out
on a voyage of discovery,
guided each by a private chart,
of which there is no duplicate.
The world is all gates, all opportunities.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don’t Blink. Blink and you’re dead. Don’t turn your back. Don’t look away.
And don’t Blink. Good Luck.
— Dr. Who

The trick is to never stop looking. There is always another secret.
— Mistborn

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.
— Faber, Fahrenheit 451

Then I had another thought: Physics disgusts me a little bit now, but I used
to enjoy physics.  Why did I enjoy it? I used to play with it.  I used to do
whatever I felt like doing - it didn’t have to do with whether it was important
for the development of nuclear physics, but whether it was interesting and
amusing for me to play with.  When I was in high school, I’d see water
running out of a faucet growing narrower, and wonder if I could figure what
determines that curve.  I found it was rather easy to do. I didn’t have to do
it; it wasn’t important for the future of science; somebody else had already
done it.  This didn’t make any difference: I’d invent things and play with
things.

So I got this new attitude.  Now that I am burned out and I’ll never
accomplish anything, I’ve got this nice position at the university
teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights
for pleasure, I’m going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without
worrying about importance whatsoever.

Within a week I was in the cafeteria and some guy, fooling around, throws a
plate in the air.  As the plate went up in the air I saw it wobble, and I
noticed the red medallion of Cornell on the plate going around. It was pretty
obvious to me that the medallion went around faster than the wobbling.

I had nothing to do, so I start to figure out the motion of the rotating plate.
I discovered that when the angle is very slight, the medallion rotates twice
as fast as the wobble rate  -  two to one.  It came out of a complicated
equation!  Then I thought, “Is there some way I can see in a more fundamental
way, by looking at the forces or the dynamics, why it’s two to one?

I don’t remember how I did it, but I ultimately worked out what the motion of
the mass particles is, and how all the accelerations balance to make it two
to one.

I still remember going to Hans Bethe and saying, "Hey, Hans!  I noticed
something interesting.  Here the plate goes around so, and the reason it’s two
to one is ..." and I showed him the accelerations.

He says, "Feynman, that’s pretty interesting, but what’s the importance of it?
Why are you doing it?"

"Hah!" I say.  "There’s no importance whatsoever.  I’m just doing it for the
fun of it."  His reaction didn’t discourage me; I had made up my mind I was
going to enjoy physics and do whatever I liked.

I went on to work out equations of wobbles.  Then I thought about how electron
orbits start to move in relativity.  Then there’s the Dirac Equation in
electrodynamics.  And then quantum electrodynamics.  And before I knew it (it
was a very short time)  I was "playing" - working, really - with the same old
problem that I loved so much, that I had stopped working on when I went to
Los Alamos: my thesis-type problems; all those old-fashioned, wonderful things.

It was effortless.  It was easy to play with these things.  It was like
uncorking a bottle: Everything flowed out effortlessly.  I almost tried to
resist it!  There was no importance to what I was doing, but ultimately there
was.  The diagrams and the whole business that I got the Nobel Prize for came
from that piddling around with the wobbling plate.
— Richard Feynman (Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman)

Do not feel absolutely certain of anything.
— Bertrand Russell

Never try to discourage thinking for you are sure to succeed.
— Bertrand Russell

That’s the thing. If I don’t dare, everyone dies.
— The Doctor

You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on
the way down.
— Ray Bradbury

The choice isn’t always about what you do, son, but why you do it.
— Tam al''Thor (The Gathering Storm)

People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take
a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings
and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply
you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else.
They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to
the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you
with it. They are The Advertisers and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property
rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they
like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you
see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do
whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock
someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them
any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves
in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start
asking for theirs.
— Banksy

You don’t need planning permission to build castles in the sky.
— Banksy

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
— Hermann Hesse

Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
— Plato

Find more pleasure in intelligent dissent than in passive agreement, for,
if you value intelligence as you should, the former implies a deeper
agreement than the latter.
— Bertrand Russell

Have no respect for the authority of others, for there are always contrary
authorities to be found.
— Bertrand Russell

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was
once eccentric.
— Bertrand Russell

Fear is a useful spur. To the wits, and to determination, when well controlled.
If we have no fear of our enemies, that leaves only contempt, and contempt
leads to the enemy’s victory.
— Masuri (Crossroads of Twilight)

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be
trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s
thinking. Don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner
voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.
They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is
secondary.
— Steve Jobs

Hit hard. Hit fast. Hit often.
— Admiral WF Halsey

The truth will set you free.
— Unknown

We have met the enemy and he is Us.
— Walt Kelly

I believe in, and I will fight for, the Charter of Rights. I believe in, and I
will fight for, a Canada that respects the foresight and vision of those who
created and entrenched the Charter. I believe in, and I will fight for, a
future in which generations of Canadians to come, Canadians born here and
abroad, will have the opportunity to value the Charter as we do today - as an
essential pillar of our democratic freedoms.
— Paul Martin

Do not go quietly into the night, rage, rage, rage, against the dying of the
light.
— Dylan Thomas

I am the devil, and I come to do the devils work.
— V for Vendetta

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stuipd. Human beings are
incredibly slow, inaccurate and briliant. Together they are powerful beyond
imagination.
— Albert Einstein

It does not do to rely to much on silent majorities, Evey, for silence is a
fragile thing one loud noise and it’s gone.
— V for Vendetta

There are times when all you can do to survive is one single thing, however
unlikely it may be, and so you act as if it can be done.
— Guy Gavriel Kay [Last light of the Sun]

... this is the Great Theater of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is
mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is
continuous. Good-night.
— Robertson Davies

I’m not going there to die. I’m going to find out if I’m really alive.
— Cowboy Bebop (Spike)

I don’t believe one can show greater respect than to weep for a stranger
— Jose Saramago (All the names)

Like an angel from the underworld, or a demon from paradise.
— Cowboy Bebop

Sometimes insanity is the only alternative.
— Unknown

Once in a while you get shown the light, in the strangest of places if you
look at it right.
— The Grateful Dead

Hell is other people.
— Jean-Paul Sartre

The truth you speak has no past and no future. It is, and that’s all it
needs to be.
— Unknown

If you do not survive what you do now, you will not reach the future. If you
do not think now about where you go, you will have precious few choices when
you reach next year or the years after.
— Colors of Chaos

First you must survive.
— Colors of Chaos

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the
most important.
— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Once expanded to the dimensions of a larger idea, [the mind] never returns to
its original size.
— Oliver Wendall Holmes

When the situation is passed all remedies, it is righteousness to take to
sword.
— Guru Gobind Singh

You’re walking on gallows ground, and there’s a rope around your neck and a
raven bird on each shoulder waiting for your eyes, and the gallows tree has
deep roots, for it stretches from heaven to hell, and our world is only the
branch from which the rope is swinging.
— Neil Gaiman

Everything has a beginning and an end. Life is just a cycle of starts and
stops. There are ends we don’t desire, but they’re inevitable, we have to face
them. It’s what being human is all about.
— Cowboy bebop (Jet)

As sure as waters wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint
you in the end.
— Neil Gaiman

I believe life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what
happens when you’re alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.
— Neil Gaiman

Its easy, there’s a trick to it, you do it or you die.
— Neil Gaiman

The trick is to just keep moving.
— M*A*S*H

Living was struggling to do something impossible - to succeed, or die,
knowing you had tried!
— Dragonflight

Don’t think you are, know you are.
— Morphious

Just so. Opening your eyes is all that is needed. The heart lies and the head
plays tricks with us, but the eyes see true. Look with your eyes. Hear with
your ears. Taste with your mouth. Smell with your nose. Feel with your skin.
Then comes the thinking, afterward, and in that way knowing the truth.
— A Game of Thrones

Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn rain.

When you wake in the morning hush,
I am the swift, uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circling flight.
I am the soft starlight at night.

Do not stand at my grave and weep.
I am not there, I do not sleep.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die!
— Mary Frye (1932) [Do not stand at my grave and weep.]

You look at where you’re going and where you are and it never makes sense, but
then you look back at where you’ve been and a pattern seems to emerge
— Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Don’t ask permission. Just do it! It’s easier to apologize for having done
something than it is to get permission to do it.
— Admiral Grace Hopper

If you would take a mans life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear
his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does
not deserve to die.
— A Game of Thrones

They can because they think they can.
— Virgil, Aeneid

Life isn’t fair. It’s just fairer than death, that’s all.
— William Goldman

All worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is
to poor to buy.
— C.S. Lewis

Let’s make these machines do something they’ve never done before, lets make
them sing!
— Microserfs

For every fact there is a infinity of hypotheses. The more you look the more
you see.
— Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

What I was I no more remain.
— Mary Queen of Scots

Tell me and I may forget, Show me and I may remember, Involve me and I’ll
understand.
— Chinese Proverb

Just a fading fucking reminder of who I used to be.
— NIN

Any dream worth having, is worth fighting for.
— Professor Xavier

There comes a point in every mans life when he must stop thinking and start
doing.
— Ben Sisko

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
— Shakespeare

Only he can command who has the courage to disobey.
— William McDougall

It’s a good day to die.
— Worf son of Mogh

Plan to throw one away; you will anyhow.
— Fred Brooks

I’m a thief, I’m a liar, I’m an angel in the fire.
— Our Lady Peace

Perfection (in design) is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but
rather when there is nothing more to take away.
— Antoine de Saint-Enupery

Even if it’s a stupid dream holding on to it is my only proof of who I am. If I
run away now all that I’ve been – all that I’ve tried to be –
will become a lie.
— Battle Angel (Hugo)

Too fucked up to care anymore.
— NIN

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that
matters, in the end.
— Ursula K. Le Guin

Pain is a thing of the mind. The mind can be controlled.
— Spock

In order to attain the impossible one must attempt the absurd.
— Miguel do Unamun

Any view of things that is not strange is false.
— Sandman

It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make
the attempt.
— Sandman

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or
more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a
new order of things.
— Niccold Machiavelli

Funny, as grim as things look right now I kind of like the challenge.
— Dragonball Z (Goku)

There’s nothing in this world of value. Nothing worth risking our lives for
except perhaps what little we can create ourself.
— Battle Angel (Ido)

Everyone’s out to get you mother fucker.
— Beck

I’ve never been one to play it safe. I choose to try.
— Picard, ST:TNG

She’s got everything delightful, she’s got everything I need.
— The Grateful Dead (Sugar Magnolia)

You who chose to lead must follow, but if you fall you fall alone. If you
should stand who’s to guide you? If I knew the way I would take you home.
— The Grateful Dead (Ripple)

You can only be what you are.
— Battle Angel (Ido)

Smile pretty and watch your back.
— Ani Defranco

As a nation of free men, we will live forever or die by suicide.
— Unknown

Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
— Wyszkowski’s Second Law

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do
because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourself. I will do
what I have to do. And I will do what I must.
— Sandman

His eyes were cold. As cold as the bitter winter snow that was falling outside.
Yes, cold and therefore difficult to chew.
— Unknown

What have I become my sweetest friend? Everything goes away in the end.
— NIN

There are no responsibilities too small for your concern, nor none too
great to be borne.
— Timegod (Martel)

You sing when you can, not when someone wants you to.
— Timedivers Dawn (Stammis)

We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and
running code.
— David Clark

Sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you.
— Unknown

I wish I felt something.
— NIN

We walk the narrow path
Beneath the smoking skies
Sometimes you can barely tell the difference
Between the darkness and the light
Do we have faith in what we believe?
The truest test is when we cannot,
When we cannot see.
— Jane Silberry

Truth is lived, not taught.
— The Glass Bead Game

Head like a hole, black as your soul, I’d rather die then give you control.
— NIN

Always the principle of a thing is more important than the thing itself.
— Lord of the Isles (Sharina)

The sweetest tounge, has the sharpest tooth.
— Unknown

The power comes in response to a need, not a desire. You have to create
that need.
— Dragonball Z (Goku)

We will honour the past, and fight to the last, it will be a good way to die.
— Bruningee Song - Lexx

Krishna answers. “I am Time, Arjuna – and now, here at this place of battle,
I am the mighty world-destroying Time. With or without you, the warriors are
arrayed to fight, and whether on the righteous or corrupt side, they are
readied for their ruin and must die. The destruction of enemies is inevitable.
It is not possible for an individual person to avert the design of Divinity.”
— The Bhagavad Gita

Nothing can hurt me, nothing can hurt me, nothing can stop me now.
— NIN

It’s better to burn out than to fade away.
— Kurt Cobain

If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right,
then we deny it. Mr. Speaker, together as a nation, together as Canadians:
Let us step forward.
— Paul Martin

Being drunk is a good disguise. I drink so I can talk to assholes. This
includes me.
— Jim Morrison

I’m not like them
But I can pretend
The sun is gone
But I have a light
The day is done
But I’m having fun
I think I’m dumb
Or maybe just happy.
— Kurt Cobain

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your
eternity in each moment.
— Henry David Thoreau

The future is just a fucking concept that we use to avoid living today.
— 6 Feet Under

What does it mean to succeed? Most people see success as being rich and famous
or powerful and influential. Others see it as being at the top of their
profession and standing out from the rest. The wise see success in a more
personal way; they see it as achieving the goals they have set for themselves,
and then feeling pride and satisfaction in their accomplishments. True success
is felt in the heart, not measured by money and power. So be true to yourself
and achieve the goals you set. For success is reaching those goals and feeling
proud of what you have accomplished.
— Tim Tweedie

The night of the fight, you may feel a slight sting. That’s pride fucking with
you. Fuck pride. Pride only hurts, it never helps.
— Pulp Fiction (Marcellus Wallace)

If they give you ruled paper, write the other way.
— Juan Ramon Jimenez

That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any
risk you want.
— Farenheit 451 (Montag)

Those who don’t build must burn. It’s as old as history and juvenile
deliquents.
— Farenheit 451 (Faber)

Now you will apologize to me, and you will call me by my right name, or I
will - with enormous pleasure - devote the rest of my life to hunting you down
and destorying everything that you care for and everything that you are.
— Neil Gaiman (Stardust)

When angels go bad, Richard, they go worse than anyone. Remeber Lucifer
used to be an angel.
— Neil Gaiman (Neverwhere)

Love must not entreat”, she added, “or demand. Love must have the strength to
become certain within itself. Then it ceases merely to be attracted and begins
to attract.
— Hermann Hesse (Damian)

In the land of the dark the Ship of the Sun is driven by the Grateful Dead.
— Egyptian Book of the Dead

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of
patriots and tyrants.
— Thomas Jefferson

Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many
things and we don’t know why, and if we do find out why, it’s decades later
and knowing why dosen’t matter any more.
— Douglas Coupland (All families are Psychotic)

My story is not a plesant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented
stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -
like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
— Hermann Hesse (Demian)

Where I come from, we believe in using what is closest to an enemy or what
comes from him, as a weapon against him.
— Terry Goodkind (The Pillars of Creation)

Surt; he has a flaming sword, and at the end of the world he will come and
harry and will vanquish all the gods and burn the whole world with fire.
— Snorri Sturluson

Never give in. Never give in. Never. Never. Never.
— Winston Churchill

If the situation or problem is such that it can be remedied, then there is no
need to worry about it. Alternatively if there is no way out, no solution, no
possibility of resolution, then there is also no point in being worried about
it, because you can’t do anything about it.
— The Dalai Lama

Beauty often seduces us on the road to truth.
— House M.D.

Reality is almost always wrong.
— House M.D.

Gravity is a harsh mistress.
— The Tick

You’re going sane in a crazy world.
— The Tick

Of course I’m crazy, but that doesn’t mean I’m wrong. I’m mad but not ill.
— Robert Anton Wilson (Werewolf Bridge)

Knowledge is a weapon John. Arm yourself well before you ride forth to battle
— Maester Aemon (A Feast for Crows)

The worst isn’t done. The worst is just beginning, and there are no happy
endings.
— Samwell Tarly (A Feast for Crows)

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to
frighten you.
— Eric Hoffer

To this I will make reply although he be a god and it will mean my death.
— Kevin Laine (The Wandering Fire)

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will
help you move a body.
— Unknown

Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane.
— Philip K. Dick

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
— Doctor Who

In preparing for battle, plans are useless but planning is indispensable.
— Dwight Eisenhower

It is at this point that Shaftoe makes his big decision. It is surprisingly
easy - but then, really stupid decisions are always the easiest
— Neil Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)

To know one thing, you must know the opposite.
— Henry Moore

Sometimes, you know, you’ve just got to let go.
— Richard Morgan (Blackman)

Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
— Cory Doctorow (Little Brother)

Do not try to imitate the old masters. Seek what they sought.
— Basho

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
— Sir Winston Churchill

When I’m working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only
how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not
beautiful, I know it is wrong.
— R. Buckminster Fuller

If you’re not prepared to be wrong you’ll never come up with anything original.
— Ken Robinson

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to
say something.
— Plato

No matter how far down the wrong road you’ve gone, turn back.
— Turkish proverb

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple
system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex
system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have
to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
— John Gall

Force your way down a path you choose to take and do it all yourself.
— Simon (Gurren Lagann)

You know, I was once belted like that too. At the time, you might think it’s a
mistake you can never undo. Even if it is, if we kick and scream and fight
like hell, we move forward a little bit. I was taught to believe in the me
that believes in myself!
— Simon (Gurren Lagann)

Kick logic out and do the impossible.
— Kamina (Gurren Lagann)

Veritas Vos Liberabit (The truth will set you free.)