The Spinning Quotes

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.

—Marcus Aurelius

An unshared life is not living.

—Stephen S. Wise

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on and individual level. It’s got to happen inside first. You can take away a man’s political freedom and you won’t hurt him- unless you take away his freedom to feel. That can destroy him. That kind of freedom can’t be granted. Nobody can win it for you.

—Jim Morrison

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

—Orson Welles

Always account for variable change.

—21

Find peace in where and what you are.

—Eragon, Christopher Paolini

Everyone is a genius.
But if you judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.

—Albert Einstein

To laugh often and much;
to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children;
to earn the appreciation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends.
To appreciate beauty;
to find the best in others;
to leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition;
to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.
This is to have succeeded.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

What do you want a meaning for? Life is a desire, not a meaning.

—Charlie Chaplin

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness.
Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

—George Sand