Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

People gonna be they own individuals and have they own worlds and I can’t knock it.

Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.

I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

Once I realized that right thinking is vital to victorious living, I got more serious about thinking about what I was thinking about, and choosing my thoughts carefully.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

I’m rather kind of old school, thinking that when an artist does his work, it’s no longer his… I just see what people make of it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

I’m considered wise, and sometimes I see myself as knowing. Most of the time, I see myself as wanting to know. And I see myself as a very interested person. I’ve never been bored in my life.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

I don’t have the best track record with quotes.

If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?

Oh, I’ve always been very… Emotional. ‚Hypersensitive‘ is what they call it, I think.

The truth is, somebody is always talking about you, so you have to let it go… if it’s not a part of your God-given destiny.

Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.

There is a need for aloneness, which I don’t think most people realise for an actor. It’s almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you’ll let the whole world in on only for a moment, when you’re acting. But everybody is always tugging at you. They’d all like sort of a chunk of you.

I was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.

Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn’t be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.

All of my misfortunes come from having thought too well of my fellows.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

If human beings were shown what they’re really like, they’d either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

In a certain sense the Good is comfortless.

We boil at different degrees.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

Modesty is a learned affectation. And as soon as life slams the modest person against the wall, that modesty drops.

Every human being is under construction from conception to death.

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me.

Peace is one of the most precious gifts God has promised His children. I know, because for many years my life was not peaceful, and I was miserable.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

I never admire another’s fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Boys do cry, but I don’t think I shed a tear for a good chunk of my teenage years.

The thing about Jiu Jitsu is it is also not for everybody. It can be very humiliating and humbling. If you have a hard time dealing with the fact that someone smaller than you may be able to tap you out, it is going to be difficult.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

How does a nice Catholic girl end up going to prison for a year? It’s crazy. I’ve made mistakes. I have to pay for those mistakes.

Seeing is not always believing.

There is no coming to consciousness without pain.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

Life cannot be without relationship, but we have made it so agonizing and hideous by basing it on personal and possessive love. Can one love and yet not possess? You will find the true answer not in escape, ideals, beliefs but through the understanding of the causes of dependence and possessiveness.

My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.