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  • “At first glance, the key and the lock it fits may seem very different,” Sazed said. “Different in shape, different in function, different in design. The man who looks at them without knowledge of their true nature might think them opposites, for one is meant to open, and the other to keep closed. Yet, upon closer examination, he might see that without one, the other becomes useless. The wise man then sees that both lock and key were created for the same purpose.”

    Source: the Well of Ascension
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:52 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: marriage
  • I leaned one elbow on the table and considered the clock. Watching the hands of a clock advance is a meaningless way to spend time, but I couldn’t think of anything better to do. Most human activities are predicated on the assumption that life goes on. If you take that premise away, what is there left?

    Speaker: Haruki Murakami
    Source: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:28 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • It seems to me a lot of trouble in this world has its origins in vague speech. Most people, when they go around not speaking clearly, somewhere in their unconscious they’re asking for trouble

    Speaker: Haruki Murakami
    Source: Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:22 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • You have the right to work, but for the work’s sake only. You have no right to the fruits of work. Desire for the fruits of work must never be your motive in working. Never give way to laziness, either.
    Perform every action with your heart fixed on the Supreme Lord. Renounce attachment to the fruits. Be even-tempered in success and failure; for it is this evenness of temper which is meant by yoga.
    Work done with anxiety about results is far inferior to work done without such anxiety, in the calm of self-surrender. Seek refuge in the knowledge of Brahman. They who work selfishly for results are miserable.

    Speaker: Bhagavad Gita
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:17 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • “He had a theory, Walt, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sicks on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.” Zooey

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:07 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: religion
  • “What happened was, I got the idea in my head – and I could not get it out – that college was one more dopey, inane place in the world dedicated to piling up treasure on earth and everything. I mean treasure is treasure, for heaven’s sake. What’s the difference if treasure is money, or property, or even culture, or even just plain knowledge? It all seemed like exactly the same thing to me, if you take off the wrapping – and it still does! Sometimes I think that knowledge – when it’s knowledge for knowledge’s sake, anyway – is the worst of all. The least excusable, certainly.” Franny

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 6:05 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • The cards are stacked (quite properly, I imagine) against all professional aesthetes, and no doubt we all deserve the dark, wordy, academic deaths we all sooner or later die.

    Speaker: J.D. Salinger
    Source: Franny and Zooey
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 22 Aug 2010 at 5:57 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving

    Speaker: Lao Tzu
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 30 Jul 2010 at 5:53 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • “People are so goddamn predictable. i should write a book about how to suckerpunch people into caring.” Jibsen

    Speaker: Reif Larsen
    Source: The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 18 May 2010 at 7:46 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: humanity, humor
  • The most efficient route that nature has found from point A to point B is rarely a straight line. It is always the path of least resistance. The most efficient way to to turn someone’s talent into performance is to help him find his own path of least resistance toward the desired outcomes.

    Source: First, Break All the Rules
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 08 May 2010 at 8:30 AM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: leadership
  • The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time, and still maintain the ability to function.

    Source: First, Break All the Rules
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 08 May 2010 at 8:28 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • A question where everyone always answers “Strongly Agree” is a weak question

    Source: First, Break All the Rules
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 08 May 2010 at 8:26 AM
    Posted By: Puck
  • When walking, walk. When eating, eat.

    Speaker: Zen proverb
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:33 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: simplicity
  • Before enlightenment; chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment; chop wood, carry water

    Speaker: Zen proverb
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life

    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:20 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated

    Speaker: Confucius
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: simplicity
  • Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves

    Speaker: Edwin Way Teal
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:19 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials

    Speaker: Lin Yutang
    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:18 PM
    Posted By: Puck
  • Our life is frittered away by detail… Simplify, simplify

    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: simplicity
  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

    Rating:
    1 (1 vote)
    Posted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:17 PM
    Posted By: Puck
    Tags: simplicity