Tone2 Icarus Quotes & Sayings

While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. "What will be the use of that?" he was asked. "To know this tune before dying." If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence. — Emil Cioran

People just want to watch people live their authentic lives and share the good and the bad. You can have fun and be a positive influence and have a good impact. And it can still be entertaining. — Tyler Oakley

The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us. — Charles Spurgeon

There are generally at least three sides to any story, though."
"Three?"
"One side, the other side, and the truth. — Garon Whited

Hunger is the piston of art. — Stephen King

Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value. — Robert Kraft

High honor is not only gotten and born by pain and danger, but must be nursed by the like, else it vanisheth as soon as it appears to the world. — Philip Sidney

We are pantheists when we study nature, polytheists when we write poetry, monotheists in our morality. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

THE STRONGEST MAN ALIVE IS THE MAN WHO CAN HOLD HIS PEACE IN THE FACE OF EVERY AGGRAVATION, AND THE WEAKEST ONE IS HE WHO CANNOT HOLD THAT PEACE! — Werner Schroeder

When wise man quits learning,
he will be more senile onwards. — Toba Beta

Focusing exclusively on what is in our power magnifies and enhances our power. But every ounce of energy directed at things we can't actually influence is wasted - self-indulgent and self-destructive. So much power - ours, and other people's - is frittered away in this manner. To see an obstacle as a challenge, to make the best of it anyway, that is also a choice - a choice that is up to us. — Ryan Holiday