Robert M. Pirsig
Its so hard when contemplated in advance, and so easy when you do it.
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You make me want to be a better man. As good as it gets.
Can you dig it ?
As knowledge increases, wonder deepens.
Formal education will make you a living, self-education will make you a fortune.
The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success only a subsequent consideration.
Now is the time. Needs are great, but your possibilities are greater.
Be Here Now.
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, loving someone deeply gives you courage.
What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first steps to something better.
Anonymity is your friend. Hmmm.. If someone adds an item to this list without knowing who "Larry" is... Is this still a list of Larryisms?
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Sawyer, you're going out a youngster, but you've got to come back a star!
Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.
Why is it that the more mistakes people make, the more paranoid they become about other people's mistakes ?
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter can not understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
May no gift be too small to give, nor too simple to receive, which is wrapped in thoughtfulness and tied with love.
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Count your blessings.
Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lie's man's only promise.
You have enemies ? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
What really matters is what you do with what you have.
He who treads the path of love walks a thousand meters as if it were only one.
I love thee, I love but thee with a love that shall not die till the sun grows cold and the stars grow old.
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
First say to yourself what you would be , and then do what you have to do.
The gem can not be polished without friction, nor man be perfected without trials.
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life.
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
What you are is god's gift to you, what you become is your gift to god.
Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life.
Never give in -- never, never, never, never.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says Leave no stone unturned.
Love is like a piece of art work, even the smallest bit can be so beautiful.
If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, then we did it. If anything goes really good, then you did it.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
And our bodies are earth. And our thoughts are clay. And we sleep and eat with death.
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
God gives nothing to those who keep their arms crossed.
Till I loved, I never lived, enough.
Enjoy each step, for in every moment there is something to learn.
You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough ! You must take action.
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
Each human organism is conceived with a potential for becoming a complete human being -- as a seed contains the potential for becoming a complete plant. But his becoming may be completed in an infinite variety of ways.
Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, and live on idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success. tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it , and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the ocean of life and bliss.
I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.
Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive can not be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations, there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
Who so loves believes the impossible.
Your children will become what you are, so be what you want them to be.
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.
We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.
Seek first to understand and then to be understood.
Love is the only rational act.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.
Conflict itself is, of course, a sign of relative health as you would know if you ever met really apathetic people, really hopeless people, people who have given up hoping, striving, and coping.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Happiness is a butterfly, which, when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
If I am not for myself, who will be for me ? Yet if I am for myself alone, of what good am I ?
Indecision is the thief of opportunity.
Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as to think.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
Wealth is but dung, useful only when spread about.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Men always want to be a woman's first love. Women like to be a man's last romance.
It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
Love like you've never been hurt, dance like no one is watching, live as though heaven is on earth.
One can be a soldier without dying, and a lover without sighing.
Draw from others the lesson that may profit yourself.
A simple I love you means more than money.
Love, a temporary insanity, curable by marriage.
Think of me as a sex symbol for men who don't give a damn.
Most people don't get much praise in daily life, but we all need it very much. I think receiving praise makes us brave. Down deep we really know our worth, but we don't have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won't remember that we deserve it.
It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.
Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.
The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, "I believe'' three times.
For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it.
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.
When one door closes another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost, that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
To my big brother George, the richest man in town !
There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
Don't fall victim to your own melodrama. Keep things in perspective. The odds are that your problem is solvable. Address the solution and don't dwell on the problem to the point at which it paralyzes you.