Since 2008, I’ve been compiling and sharing quotes as @dailyzen on Twitter. I used a social analytics tool to figure out the most popular posts of all time. Here are a bunch of them:
“People think you’re crazy if you talk about things they don’t understand.”
“You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.”
“I am that clumsy human, always loving, loving, loving. And loving. And never leaving.”
“You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy. Then you should sit for an hour.”
“Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure you are not just surrounded by assholes.”
“You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you.”
“Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.”
“A writer who waits for ideal conditions under which to work will die without putting a word to paper.”
“You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.”
“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he’s in prison.”
“I hate the word homophobia. It’s not a phobia. You are not scared. You are an asshole.”
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”
“Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.”
“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
“Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”
“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.”
“The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood.”
“Let go or be dragged.”
“You fall in love with people’s minds.”
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
