Fargal Quotes & Sayings

If you have a high evaluation of yourself then your ability to recognize new facts is weakened. — Robert M. Pirsig

A normal life. Such a simple idea, but it's almost impossible for me to picture. — Pittacus Lore

You can recover the truth of what you really are. When you finally see yourself as you are, when you finally take responsibility for your creation, you will cleanse the lies from your own creation. — Miguel Angel Ruiz

The primary energy that is active in all things is kundalini. Kundalini energy is the energy of awareness. It can be used to modify awareness. — Frederick Lenz

How great would be our peril if our slaves began to number us! — Seneca The Younger

Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to "watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives." Amateurs fit the same bill: They're just regular people who get obsessed by something and spend a ton of time thinking out loud about it. — Austin Kleon

The moment you sense someone is making something because they think people are gonna buy it or like it, it's just so phony! The public has a nose for phony like nobody else. — Zooey Deschanel

I am learning to live close to the lives of my friends without ever seeing them. No miles of any measurement can separate your soul from mine. — John Muir

In his treatise on the battles between the gods underlying ancient Dionysian theatre, the young Nietzsche notes: 'Alas! The magic of these struggles is such, that he who sees them must also take part in them.' Similarly, an anthropology of the practising life is infected by its subject. Dealing with practices, asceticisms and exercises, whether or not they are declared as such, the theorist inevitably encounters his own inner constitution, beyond affirmation and denial. — Peter Sloterdijk

Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past. — P. J. O'Rourke

I pressed my lips to his and felt the addictive draw that everyone told me about. It was so much more enticing than anyone could have ever described. — Jordan Deen

Never pick up a stray kitten ... unless you've already made up your mind to be owned by it. — Robert A. Heinlein

Jackie's good arm was out the window, the sandy air tickling her skin with hundreds of inconsequential stings, a tangible Morse code saying something meaningless. Jackie — Joseph Fink

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past ... Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past. — George Steiner

Whenever I have had a sudden urge to quit dancing, I just remember that moment I had when I was young and remember that dancing is what I want to do. — Anna Pavlova