The Picture of Dorian Gray Quotes

-The real drawback of marriage is that it makes one unselfish. And unselfish people are colorless. They lack individuality.

-Pleasure is nature's test, her sign of approval. When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy.

-Beautiful sins, like beautiful things, are the privilege of the rich.

-Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there. That is the reason why people who live out of town are so absolutely uncivilized. Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only 2 ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt. Country people have no opportunity of being either, so they stagnate.

-The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of Faith and the lesson of Romance.

-I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and intellect, because you realized the dreams of great poets and gave shape and substance to the shadows of art.

-Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age. I consider that for any man of culture to accept the standard of his age is a form of the grossest immorality.

-What does it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his soul?

-I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects.

-The aim of life is self development. To realize one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for.

-Young people nowadays imagine money is everything.
-Yes, and when they grow older, they know it.

-I can sympathize with everything except suffering.

-As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood each other. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

-Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Finally read this book.

Love this quote:
"To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."

Amen.

Quotes from 12 Year Old

Today:
"What did you learn in science today?
"Nothing, we had a new girl in class so the teacher was off the hook."
"What? Do you know what that means?"
"She was very busy?"
"No."

Yesterday:
"So this girl in our clique was being a bitch"
"WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY? That is a very bad word JY Lee"
"Doesn't it mean brat?"
"No."

Comes in wearing pink Uggs
"Look at me I'm a fashionister"

I need Some Inspiration

So I only work 3 hours a day. I came to Korea to find myself, figure out what I want to do in life. Instead of figuring out my life, I find myself sleeping until noon and watching shows on the internet until I need to shower at 3 PM to get ready for work.

I need some inspiration/contemplation in my life and it helps to remind myself with quotes I saved in my diary from various sources, literature, rap music, confucius etc.

Paul Auster:
"The pressure was off, and without any pressure, nothing important can ever be at stake. "

Nawal el Saadawi:
" How is it possible to live? Life is so hard. You must be harder than life. Life is very hard. The only people who really live are those that are harder than life itself."

Shambhala :
-" You can never avoid death. Whatever you do, death occurs. But if you have lived with a sense of reality and with gratitude towards life, then you leave the dignity of your life behind you, so that your relatives, your friends, and your children can appreciate who you were."
-" We prefer to hide in our personal jungles and caves. When we hide from the world in this way we feel secure. We may think that we have quieted our fear but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us. We are so afraid of our own fear that we deaden our hearts."

Oscar Wilde:
"Who, being loved, is poor?"

Jay-Z:
-"Life is for living not for living uptight."
-"We don't just shine, we illuminate the whole show."

Anton Chekhov:
"The lieutenant draws his plans and you sit in the kitchen all day longing for your homeland. Plans....it's a man's life that counts, not plans. Life can't be repeated, it must be cherished."

Confucius (says):
-"Great man is accommodating but not one with the crowd"
-"Great man neither worries or fears."

Weird Swiss Movie:
"I put up a facade and go about my day, but underneath it all I am crying. I cry because I can never be what I once was."

Coco Chanel:
-"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
-"There is time for work and time for love. That leaves no other time."

Hemingway from A Moveable Feast:
"We'll come home and eat here and we'll have a lovely meal and drink Beaune from the co-operative you can see right out of the window...and afterwards we'll read and then go to bed and make love."
"And we'll never love anyone but eachother."
"No. Never""