Albert Einstein
- "The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Along with "Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." what Einstein is telling all of us, including we marketers, that we must never lose our imagination; we must never stop pushing; never stop dreaming. As children our imaginations are free to go wherever they want, yet as adults we tend to rein them in. Don't. Keep dreaming. Keep imagining. You'll be a lot smarter for it.
Wikipedia
- Cock and Ball Torture
Cock and ball torture (CBT), occasionally known as penis torture, dick torture, or male genitorture or male genital torture, is a sexual activity involving the application of pain or constriction to the penis or testicles. This may involve directly painful activities, such as genital piercing, wax play, genital spanking, squeezing, ball-busting, genital flogging, urethral play, tickle torture, erotic electrostimulation, kneeing or kicking.
Matt Haig
- The Midnight Library
She imagined, now, what it would be like to accept herself completely. Every mistake she had ever made. Every mark on her body. Every dream she hadn't reached or pain she had felt. Every lust or longing she had suppressed. She imagined accepting it all. The way she accepted nature. She imagined seeing herself as just another brilliant freak of nature. Just another sentient animal, trying their best. And in doing so, she imagined what it was like to be free.
Dean Alfange
- My Creed (abridged)
I seek to develop whatever talents God gave me - not security. I do not wish to be a kept citizen, humbled and dulled by having the state look after me. I want to take the calculated risk; to dream and to build, to fail and to succeed. I prefer the challenges of life to the guaranteed existence; the thrill of fulfillment to the stale calm of utopia. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout. I will never cower before any earthly master nor bend to any threat.
Lucas
- Time
Time is such a peculiar concept. It is everywhere, and nowhere, an abstract notion of something not quite real. Yet we are all dependent on it. Without time, the Universe would cease to exist. So be grateful for whatever time you have, because it really is such a precious thing.
jamie
- Procrastination
I am drunk, I achieved one hundred words per minute tonight for the first time, and I am procrastinating writing a paper on the country of Greece for my international business class. I'm making a quote for no other reason than boredom, but I'm trying to use words that I like to type because they're easy. If you've been typing for too long, go have a snack. Hopefully your next quote is short. Good luck.
Hogarth - The Iron Giant
- Grace
Oh my God. Um, uh... O my God! We... thank you! For the food, that mom has... put in front of us, and- stop! The devil! From... doing bad things, and, uh... Get out of here! Uh... Satan? Go! Go... so that we may live in peace. Amen.
Gene Wolf
- Masters - Shadow & Claw
The difficulty lies in learning that we ourselves encompass forces equally great. We say, "I will," and "I will not," and imagine ourselves (though we obey the orders of some prosaic person every day) our own masters, when the truth is that our masters are sleeping. One wakes within us and we are ridden like beasts, though the rider is but some hitherto unguessed part of ourselves.
Gene Wolf
- Figures Beyond the Void of Death
No intellect is needed to see those figures who wait beyond the void of death - every child is aware of them, blazing with glories dark or bright, wrapped in authority older than the universe. They are the stuff of our earliest dreams, as of our dying visions. Rightly we feel our lives guided by them, and rightly too we feel how little we matter to them, the builders of the unimaginable, the fighters of wars beyond the totality of existence.
"Twisted" by Starkid
- Gaston's Lament
In town there was only she who was as beautiful as me... on the inside. But then, tragedy struck. She was taken hostage in a castle filled with demonic furniture. So I did what anyone would do and I organized a rescue mission. But how was I to know that she had fallen in love with her captor? To me that doesn't seem entirely healthy. Especially since he's a wolf bear thing. A buffalo monster. In a cape. But the heart wants what it wants. And sometimes what it wants is twisted.
Shouya Ishida (A Silent Voice)
- I think I can understand
Things would have been so much better back then. If we had heard each other's voices. I hate myself. I was selfish, and I never thought about anyone else's feelings. Since then, my classmates have all looked down on me. I've lived for seventeen years, and I haven't lived one of them as a good person. The only time I heard your voice was when we got into that fight. And what pisses me off the most is the fact that I haven't changed at all since back then! But now, I think I can understand.
Mystic Messenger - Zen
- Sudden realisation
I understand why none of us have girlfriends. I'm dating my job, that trust fund kid is dating his cat, Seven is a freak and Yoosung is addicted to games. No wonder we don't have anyone.
Mystic Messenger - MC
- You made me a better person 707
I care for you and I was addicted to you. I stay up late until 3 am and then wake up at 6 am. You are the reason I keep striving to do my best to one day be smart as you. You are the reason I want to make others happy the way you make my day so bright.
Taylor Swift
- this is me trying
And it's hard to be at a party when you feel like an open wound. It's hard to be anywhere these days when all I want is you. You're a flashback on a film reel on the one screen in my town. And I just wanted you to know that this is me trying. I just wanted you to know that this is me trying. At least I'm trying.
Taylor Swift
- this is me trying
They told me all of my cages were mental so I got wasted like all my potential and my words shoot to kill when I'm mad. I have a lot of regrets about that. I was so ahead of the curve, the curve became a sphere, fell behind all my classmates and I ended up here. Pouring out my heart to a stranger but I didn't pour the whiskey. I just wanted you to know that this is me trying. I just wanted you to know that this is me trying. At least I'm trying.
Taylor Swift
- this is me trying
I've been having a hard time adjusting. I had the shiniest wheels; now they're rusting. I didn't know if you'd care if I came back. I have a lot of regrets about that. Pulled the car off the road to the lookout, could've followed my fears all the way down. And maybe I don't quite know what to say but I'm here in your doorway. I just wanted you to know that this is me trying. I just wanted you to know that this is me trying.
Unknown
- Desiderata
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism. Be yourself. Especially do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment, it is as perennial as the grass. Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth.
Unknown
- Desiderata
Avoid loud and aggressive persons; they are vexatious to the spirit. If you compare yourself with others, you maybe become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself. Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Unknown
- Desiderata
Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender, be on good terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even to the dull and the ignorant; they too have their story.
Bhikkhu Sujato
- One Might Wish
So I have heard. At one time the Buddha was staying near Savatthi in Jeta's Grove, Anathapindika's monastery. There the Buddha addressed the mendicants, "Mendicants!" "Venerable sir," they replied. The Buddha said this: "Mendicants, live by the ethical precepts and the monastic code. Live restrained in the monastic code, conducting yourselves well and seeking alms in suitable places. Seeing danger in the slightest fault, keep the rules you've undertaken."
