I hated myself and the world because I had failed to face and accept the limitations of my self and of life. In literature this refusal is called romanticism; in psychology, neurosis.

Life is islands of ecstasy in an ocean of ennui, and after the age of thirty land is seldom seen.

We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.

Why did children seem to be so often spontaneous, joy-filled and concentrated while adults seemed controlled, anxiety-filled and diffused? It was the Goddam sense of having a self.

Patterns are prostitution to the patter of parents.

There is something fundamentally wrong with the way we normally live our lives and we'd sort of like to find out what it is.

And it's his illusions about whatconstitutes the real world which are inhibiting him...His reality, his reason, his society ... These are what must be destroyed

Understand yourself, accept yourself, but do not be yourself.

Love is one of society's many socially accepted forms of madness.

Psychoanalysis seemed an expensive, slow working, unreliable tranquilizer. If LSD were really to do whatAlpert and Leary claimed for it, all psychiatrists would be out of a job overnight.

One desire, my friends, one: to kill yourself. You must desire this. You must feel that a voyage of discovery is more important than all the little trips which the normal consumer self wants to buy.

Yes, I'm a fan of living some part of each day with my head in the clouds.

I'll show you secrets if you stay...you'll never know if you run away...

Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course. Nor June. But January is your third most common month for madness.

And you still haven't answered any of my one-hundred ten questions, or my follow ups.

I don't know if my faith stems from what I'd call unconditional love, but the energy certainly feels boundless.

It would be hilarious if I worked in a bowling alley.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

Strategic planning for projects management using a project management maturity model

Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.

Really you don't need more information. If you've lived twenty years, you probably have enough material for the rest of your life