Quotestream

Who doesn’t enjoy a well crafted quote? We like them so much, we feature one every Wednesday here at 3MPH. Inspiration to get you over the hump. Here they all are streaming down the page. Enjoy!

“We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. ~ Carlos Castaneda

“You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inert, so hopelessly dependent on the system that they will fight to protect it.” ~ Morpheus, The Matrix

“Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind.” ~ John F. Kennedy

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” ~ Lao Tzu

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. ~ C.S. Lewis

“The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Pablo Coelho

“The secret to happiness is freedom… And the secret to freedom is courage.” ~ Thucydides

“Capitol Hill is an assisted living facility for psychopaths. It’s where people who receive sexual gratification from dropping military explosives on civilians go to wait for the sweet embrace of death. The whole place smells like night terrors and urine.” ~ Caitlin Johnstone

“Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti

“Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” ~ John Muir

“The first reaction to truth is hatred.” ~ Tertullian

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.” ~ Bob Dylan

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.” ~ Bob Dylan

“Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers.”― Socrates

“History teaches us that man learns nothing from history.” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

“There comes a point in your life when you need to stop eating other people’s bread and make your own!” ~ Chris Geiger

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk: every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.” ~ Søren Kierkegaard

Science is only a manmade truth-seeking tool. It is fallible. It is a statistical, probabalistic mathematical model. It has limitations. Wielded for profit – truth can become lost. ~ Dr. Andrew Moulden

“One of the advantages to getting older, though: while you might not change all that much, you at least got to know yourself. The real you, minus the bullshit and wishful thinking.” ~ Edward W. Robertson

“We’ve got to cut down on farming due to Climate Change…or people are going to starve…” ~ John Kerry

“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.” ~ Benjamin Franklin

“The pharmaceutical industry is as interested in world health as the arms industry is in world peace.” ~ Dr. Simon Goddek

Freedom’s just another word for nothin’ left to lose. ~ Kris Kristofferson

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” ~ Pablo Neruda

“The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.” ~ Joe Klaas

“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” ~ H.L. Mencken

“When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Max Planck

“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free” ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” ~ Preamble to the Declaration of Independence

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” ~ Albert Camus

"We would rather be ruined than changed
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
~ W. H. Auden

“It’s how you behave that matters, not what you believe.”

“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” ~ Frank Zappa

“I learned that every mortal will taste death, but only some will taste life.” ~ Rumi

“Learning is an ornament in prosperity, a refuge in adversity, and a provision in old age.” ~ Aristotle

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ~ Anita Desai

“Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” ~ Paulo Coelho

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the color of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

“It is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.” ~ Alan Watts

“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” ~ Rumi

“In order to write about life first you must live it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” ~ Carl Gustav Jung

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

We have created thousands and thousands of places in America that aren’t worth caring about, and when we have enough of them, we’re going to have a country that’s not worth defending. ~ James Howard Kunstler

“When I sit down and play the guitar, I’m 20 years old again.” ~ J.J. Cale

“Most people work just hard enough not to get fired & get paid just enough money not to quit.” ~ George Carlin

“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.” ~Rumi

“There is one path in the world that none can walk but you. Where does it lead? Don’t ask, walk!” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“You have to die a few times before you can really live.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“Find what you love and let it kill you.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“Dogs and angels are not very far apart.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“Happiness lies not in finding what is missing, but in finding what is present” ~ Tara Brach

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.” ~ Robert Frost

“Society tames the wolf into a dog. And man is the most domesticated animal of all.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the Universe, to match your nature with Nature.” ~ Joseph Campbell

“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their mind cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

“Always drink upstream from the herd.” ~ Will Rogers

“I was educated once – it took me years to get over it.” ~ Mark Twain

“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ W.B. Yeats

You are looking everywhere except within you,
and that is the only place where you are going to find the treasure,
the truth,
the beauty.
~ Osho

“The only source of knowledge is experience.” ~ Albert Einstein

If you must look back, do so forgivingly.
If you must look forward, do so prayerfully.
But the wisest course would be to be present
in the present gratefully.
~ Maya Angelou

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.” ~ Frank Zappa

Keep on Walking. “Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh

“The things you run from are inside you.” ~ Seneca

“The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.” ~ Dale Carnegie

“They have money for war but they can’t feed the poor.” ~ Tupac Shakur

“No amount of belief makes something a fact.” ~ James Randi

“When you decide that you are more interested in being aware of your thoughts than you are in the thoughts themselves – that is when you will find your way out.” ~ Michael Singer

“Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it.” ~ Salvador Dali

“Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.” ~ Josh Billings

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto.” ~ Lao Tzu

“Everything the state says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.” ~ William Shakespeare

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.” ~ Albert Einstein

“No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.” ~ William Blum

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.” – Carl Jung

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.” ― Paulo Coelho

“The leaves fall, the wind blows, and the farm country slowly changes from the summer cottons into its winter wools.” ― Henry Best

“We’re so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody’s going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don’t even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven’t learned how to care for one another. We’re gonna save the fuckin’ planet? . . . And, by the way, there’s nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin’ great. It’s been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn’t goin’ anywhere, folks. We are! We’re goin’ away. Pack your shit, we’re goin’ away. And we won’t leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we’ll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.” ― George Carlin

“In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric. Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.” ― John Stuart Mill

Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed childhood. ~Immanuel Kant

“What Government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms, and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” ~ Tom Clancy

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“You’d be surprised to know how much you can change if you just get your butt off the couch.” ~ George Carlin

“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.” ~ H. L. Mencken

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.” — Lao Tzu

Sure sign of Spiritual Growth: You want more freedom and less stuff. — Lisa Villa Prosen

“To find yourself, think for yourself.” ― Socrates

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.” — Maya Mendoza

“Nature does not hurry. Yet everything is accomplished.” ~ Lao Tzu

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ~ Marcel Proust

“Better to die fighting for freedom than to be a prisoner all the days of your life.” — Bob Marley

““Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” — Bob Marley

“None but ourselves can free our minds.” — Bob Marley

“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading” ― Siddhārtha Gautama

The Earth laughs in Flowers. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“Tears are words that need to be written.” ― Paulo Coelho

“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.” ― Immanuel Kant

A flower blossoms for it’s own joy.

– Oscar Wilde

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god.” ― Aristotle

“The world’s big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” ― John Muir

“If we are creating ourselves all the time, then it is never too late to begin creating the bodies we want instead of the ones we mistakenly assume we are stuck with.” ― Deepak Chopra

“Defiance, not obedience, is the American’s answer to overbearing authority.” – Ayn Rand

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~ Leo Tolstoy

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ~ Charles Bukowski

“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck

Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ~ Ferris Bueller

“If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized … If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.” – Ian Watson

The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new. ~ Socrates

“As a retired physician, I can honestly say that unless you are in a serious accident, your best chance of living to a ripe old age is to avoid doctors and hospitals and learn nutrition, herbal medicine and other forms of natural medicine unless you are fortunate enough to have a naturopathic physician available. Almost all drugs are toxic and are designed only to treat symptoms and not cure anyone..” –Dr. Alan Greenberg, MD

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” ― William Butler Yeats

“No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

“Rights aren’t rights if someone can take them away. They’re privileges. That’s all we’ve ever had in this country, is a bill of temporary privileges. And if you read the news even badly, you know that every year the list gets shorter and shorter.” ~ George Carlin

Most people would rather die than think. — Bertrand Russell

Coexistence on this tightly knit earth should be viewed as an existence not only without wars… but also without [the government] telling us how to live, what to say, what to think, what to know, and what not to know. —Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” —Albert Einstein

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson

“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.”

― George Carlin

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.”

– H.L. Mencken

You can’t catch the wild horse by running,

but nobody who is not running will catch the wild horse.

Sufi Proverb

“The more artificial taboos and restrictions there are in the world, the more the people are impoverished… The more that laws and regulations are given prominence, the more thieves and robbers there will be.”

~ Lao Tzu

“Collective fear stimulates herd instinct and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.”

― Bertrand Russell

“I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don’t believe anything the government tells me. Sooner or later the people in this country are going to realize: the government does not give a fuck about them. The government doesn’t care about you, or your children, or your rights, or your welfare, or your safety. It simply doesn’t give a fuck about you. It’s interested in its own power. That’s the only thing keeping it and expanding it wherever possible.”

– George Carlin

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” ― Mark Twain

“The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.” ~Edward Abbey

“Nobody can be in good health if he does not have all the time fresh air, sunshine and good water.” ~ Flying Hawk

“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold onto.” ~Lao Tzu

“The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks.” ― Christopher Hitchens

“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything – anger, anxiety, or possessions – we cannot be free.”

― Thich Nhat Hanh

“There are no Ordinary Moments.”

-Dan Millman

“If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.”

― Edward Abbey

“Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.”

― Aldous Huxley

“Sometimes, the most productive thing that you can do is to step outside and do nothing… relax and enjoy nature.”

― Melanie Charlene

“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Nature doesn’t need knowledge, because nature is knowledge, knowledge manifest.”

― Martin Pretchel

“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”

― Tom Robbins

“The Edge… There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.”

― Hunter S. Thompson

“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.”

― Lao Tzu

“The real secret of success is enthusiasm.”

― Walter P Chrysler

“The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”

― Socrates

“Wherever forests have not been mowed down, wherever the animal is recessed in their quiet protection, wherever the earth is not bereft of four-footed life - that to the white man is an 'unbroken wilderness.' 

But for us there was no wilderness, nature was not dangerous but hospitable, not forbidding but friendly. Our faith sought the harmony of man with his surroundings; the other sought the dominance of surroundings.

For us, the world was full of beauty; for the other, it was a place to be endured until he went to another world.

But we were wise. We knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard.” 

― Standing Bear

“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” ― Albert Einstein

“It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.”

― Paulo Coelho

“Life has three rules: Paradox, Humor, and Change.

Paradox: Life is a mystery; don’t waste your time trying to figure it out.
Humor: Keep a sense of humor, especially about yourself. It is a strength beyond all measure.
Change: Know that nothing ever stays the same.”

― Dan Millman