#life

"What's great about the geek spirit is that life never seems to stop us, and they never seem to kill our enthusiasm, our optimism and our hunger to experience the world. We keep our sense of humor, we protect our dignity, we talk to our friends about the experience and then we start again fresh the very next day."

"Binatang itu bicara, makan -- tapi tak mengerti dirinya sendiri. Dan aku begitu juga."

"Consolation [10w] Man finds consolation in love, laughter and Ben & Jerry's."

"Divine Write [10w] To write is to divinely dabblein infinite alternate realities."

"What I'm not sure about, is if our lives have been so different from the lives of the people we save. We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we've lived through, or feel we've had enough time."

"Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read."

"You are an ocean in a drop of dew,all the universes in a thin sack of blood.What are these pleasures then,these joys, these worldsthat you keep reaching for,hoping they will make you more alive?"

"Live authentically. Why would you continue to compromise something that's beautiful to create something that is fake?"

"V-Day…if you need this one day in a year to show everyone else you truly care for “your loved one” I think it’s quite stupid. I hate this commercialism. It’s all artificial, and has nothing to do with real love."

"Life is absolutely impossible without love."

"We all learn lessons in life. Some stick, some don't. I have always learned more from rejection and failure than from acceptance and success."

"Choices makes us, choices made at mire proves a person to be righteous or evil. It depends on us to be vanquished or to stand indomitable to a predicament."

"Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive"

"There are many things worth living for, a few things worth dying for, and nothing worth killing for."

"Opportunity Knocks: China When opportunity knocksthe Chinese make knock-offs."

"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."[The Title Always Comes Last; NEH 2003 Jefferson Lecturer interview profile]"

"What looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself; maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."

"Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?"

"Sometimes, the simple things are more fun and meaningful than all the banquets in the world ..."

"I take thee at thy word:Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized;Henceforth I never will be Romeo."