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"I’ve had a vision. Even though this is a world where good men are murdered in their prime and mediocre hacks thrive and proliferate, I’ve got to share this with you because I love you, and you feel that." -Bill Hicks
“Never invest yourself in anything so deeply that its failure could cost you your happiness.” ― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
Edit: Okay, so people have given some mixed reviews about the quote. For starters, the context of the book matters a lot. I'm a huge believer in doing what you love and doing it with everything that you have. But this book by Ian Caldwell, “The Rule of Four”, has some other great quotes I'll share.
“Hope,… which whispered from Pandora's box after all the other plagues and sorrows had escaped, is the best and last of all things. Without it, there is only time. And time pushes at our backs like a centrifuge, forcing outward and away, until it nudges us into oblivion… It's a law of motion, a fact of physics…, no different from the stages of white dwarves and red giants. Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yardstick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.” ― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
“I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.” ― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
“Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.” ― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
“So ended the formative period in his life, the single year that set in motion all the clockwork of his future identity. Thinking back on it, I wonder if it isn't the same for all of us. Adulthood is a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.” ― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
“A son is a promise that time makes to a man, the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.” ― Ian Caldwell, The Rule of Four
Sorry for the length, I just thought these deserved to be seen too.
"The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.” -Neil Gaiman
Bill Hicks: "I had a vision of a way we could have no enemies ever again, if you’re interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? It’s kind of an interesting theory, and all we have to do is make one decisive act and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once. Here’s what we…
… You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year? Trillions of dollars. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded … not one … we could as one race explore inner and outer space together in peace, forever.”
"Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare." Japanese Proverb
"A very great vision is needed and the man who has it must follow it as the eagle seeks the deepest blue of the sky." Chief Crazy Horse
"Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is but a vision but today, well lived, will make every yesterday a pleasant memory and every tomorrow a vision of hope." – Sanskrit
"Surrealism is destructive, but it destroys only what it considers to be shackles limiting our vision." Salvador Dali
