Thread: Quip Of The Day

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

" If I had to live my life over, I'd live over a saloon."

W.C.Fields

Originally Posted by Geezer

" What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."

-Havelock Ellis

"The intolerable nuisance of consistently low quality food, was overcome by McDonald's, with a larger menu... Now THAT'S progress!"
--Disgruntled Clown

" There was a scientist that invented a machine that would destroy the world. . . He pushed the button and never found out."

Happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile.

Yuval Noah Harari

Narrator: There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.

There is another theory mentioned, which states that this has already happened.

- Douglas Adams, original BBC radio script for Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

A meaningful life can be extremely satisfying even in the midst of hardship whereas a meaningless life is a terrible ordeal no matter how comfortable it is.

Yuval Noah Harari

The first to apologize is the bravest. The first to forgive is the strongest. The first to forget is the happiest.

Unknown

"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
-Jonathon Swift