John Teller Journal Quotes & Sayings

Human life has no meaning independent of itself. There is no cosmic force or deity to give it meaning or significance. There is no ultimate destiny for man. Such a belief is an illusion of humankind's infancy. The meaning of life is what we choose to give it. Meaning grows out of human purposes alone. Nature provides us with an infinite range of opportunities, but it is only our vision and our action that select and realize those that we desire. — Paul Kurtz

When one sees one of the romantic creatures before him he imagines he is looking at some holy being, so wonderful that its one breath could dissolve him in a sea of a thousand charms and delights; but if one looks into the soul
it's nothing but a common crocodile. — Anton Chekhov

I close my eyes and ride the mindless bliss. It's all I can do. Be. Feel. Live.
I'm Pri-ya again.
I always will be with this man. — Karen Marie Moning

I cannot invest the way I want the world to be; I have to invest the way the world is. — Jim Rogers

It's always once the script's done in the first two years if it doesn't get going somehow or another, I've never had an old script that someone's made later on. — Brian Helgeland

Religious people were big on saying "the tongue is a mighty weapon, so use it wisely," and then forsaking this claim when the music director slept with the minister's wife or when the youth minister did what he did. — Tiffany King

I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like someone who observes it, and I can't ever imagine being like that. — Marina And The Diamonds

Mentally and physically, I find I can play with these people. — Chico Hamilton

Weak mortals, chained to the earth, creatures of clay as frail as the foliage of the woods, you unfortunate race, whose life is but darkness, as unreal as a shadow, the illusion of a dream. — Aristophanes

The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. — Stephen Malkmus

Many people think that it is the function of a spiritual teaching to provide answers to life's biggest questions,
but actually, the opposite is true.
The primary task of any good spiritual teaching is not to
answer your questions, but to question your answers. — Adyashanti

Sometimes when you see too much, you miss a lot. — Peter Watts

There are so many of us that just do things to pay bills, but I never wanted that to be me. — Mehcad Brooks

I think sports are extremely beneficial for our youth. They parallel life in so many ways. — Kerri Strug