I’m a sucker for a good quote and succinct universal truths and seeing my own ideals expressed in poetic prose gives me a sense of self understanding.

On the flip side of that, my memory is shit and that’s why I thought I’d start collecting some of my favourite quotes here, so I don’t lose track of my inspiration.

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
– T.S. Eliot

“Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living”
– Anthony Bourdain

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
– Jack Kerouac

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“People settle for a level of despair they can tolerate and call it happiness.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“The best way of keeping a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
– Fyodor Dostovsky

“Everything you say should be true but not everything true should be said.”
– Voltaire

“Vision without action is a daydream, action without vision is a nightmare.”
– Japanese proverb

“You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.”
– Nikola Tesla

“Socialism never took root in America because the poor there see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”
– John Steinbeck

“Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
– Kurt Vonnegut

“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see it’s not the answer.”
– Jim Carrey

“He’s not really dead as long as we remember him.”
-McCoy to Kirk in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan