Brian Dyson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • There are no perfect human beings! Persons can be found who are good, very good indeed, in fact, great. There do in fact exist creators, seers, sages, saints, shakers, and movers...even if they are uncommon and do not come by the dozen. And yet these very same people can at times be boring, irritating, petulant, selfish, angry, or depressed. To avoid disillusionment with human nature, we must first give up our illusions about it.

  • I bought abandon dearAnd sold all piety for pleasure.My own free spirit I have followed,And never will I give up lust.

  • Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise your true self as undifferentiated awareness, unaffected by time, past, present or future, and enter Peace.

  • Don't ever give up. Believe in yourself or no one else will. My personal saying is: 'I'd rather die knowing that I tried to do what I love.'

  • A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.

  • If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

  • I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.

  • Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.

  • It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.

  • Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.