Quotes
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Twist your head around
It’s all around you
All is full of love
All around you
But those prison walls exist only because you have chosen to allow them to stand.
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him.
It is not events that disturb people, it is their judgments concerning them.
I had lost a head and gained a world.
Your mind makes it real.
You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage, born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind…
Don’t kick down the doorway to the deep; slide in on your tiptoes.
In reality, hope is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs man’s torments.
Somehow it’s always easy to believe the bad.
If you take it that you’re drowning your whole life — and that’s exactly how it is — then love is what helps you keep your head above the water.
To climb out of the well, you first have to fall into it.
Stop doing stupid things. Stop lying. Stop making things worse.
You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit
Edward Said
For the vast majority of beasts on this planet, stress is about a short-term crisis, after which it’s either over with or you’re over with.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.
Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float.