Paying Attention
Paying attention to what we choose to pay it to is our greatest freedom. — Stephen Gaskin • See this smart saying in our shop.
smart sayings • mug and poster shop
Paying attention to what we choose to pay it to is our greatest freedom. — Stephen Gaskin • See this smart saying in our shop.
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly. — Bertrand Russell • See this smart saying in our shop.
Live the life you’ve dreamed. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
Despair is an irrational position on a battlefield of unknown surprises with an army of unknown power. Keep fighting, and watch and see. — Caitlin Johnstone • See this smart saying in our shop.
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. — Leo Tolstoy • See this smart saying in our shop.
The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. — Henry David Thoreau • See this smart saying in our shop.
When I first said I wanted to be a comedian, everybody laughed. They’re not laughing now. — Bob Monkhouse
There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other. — J.K. Rowling
I’ve never had a problem with drugs. I’ve had problems with the police. — Keith Richards
Do you seriously expect me to be the first prince of Wales in history not to have a mistress? — Prince Charles
Here’s a quick collection of screenshots of some of my favorite quotes from the book I Never Metaphor I Didn’t Like, by Dr. Mardy Grothe. There are lots of good quotes about aging towards the end.
Stumbling is not falling. — Malcolm X • See this smart saying in our shop.
The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible. — Bertrand Russell • See this smart saying in our shop.
A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering into the stream of time from an eternal world outside, than from a view which regards time as the devouring tyrant of all that is. — Bertrand Russelll • See this smart saying in our shop.
Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people’s approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity. — Lao Tzu • See this smart saying in our shop.
Good men must not obey the laws too well. — Ralph Waldo Emerson • See this smart saying in our shop.
You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. — Mark Twain • See this smart saying in our shop.
“All goes onward and outward, nothing collapses, And to die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.” — Walt Whitman • “There wasn’t a lot of bullshit in my heaven.” — Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones • “But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are ‘on’ concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it.” — C.S. Lewis
Tyranny is always better organized than freedom. — Charles Peguy • See this smart saying in our shop.
Be still, sad heart, and cease repining; Behind the clouds the sun is shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • See this smart saying in our shop.