takshimada’s most recent Quotables

Don't ask yourself what the world needs - ask yourself what makes you come alive, and then go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive

We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Sometimes low self-esteem is earned. It’s the correct response if you are not trying your best.

Always provide correction in private and praise in public.

Your style is defined by what makes you feel most comfortable.

Your outlook on life defines how you react to those life changing moments.

Everyday people shape and influence your life. Find the right people and you’ll be a better person for it.

Nothing beats a good hat, so long as it is removed when indoors.

Be honest in your opinion. Be gracious in your manner. Be humble in your tone. Be thankful for what you’re given.

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.

The supreme arrogance of religious thinking: that a carbon-based bag of mostly water on a speck of iron-silicate dust around a boring dwarf start in a minor galaxy in an underpopulated local group of galaxies in an unfashionable suburb of a supercluster would look up at the sky and declare, 'It was all made so that I could exist!'

While nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer, nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

Poetry is when you make new things familiar and familiar things new.

Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. … If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

I'm Buddhist, I respect religion. But I talk always about secularism.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Think of it as you want it, not as it is!

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.