Waking Life
Movie Quote Quiz

Man on TV: A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage from which to view this experience. And where most consider their individual relationship to the universe, I contemplate relationships of my various selves to one another.

Speed Levitch: Life is a matter of a miracle that is collected over time by moments flabbergasted to be in each others presence.

Louis Mackey: What are these barriers that keep people from reaching anywhere near their real potential? The answer to that can be found in another question and that's this: Which is the most universal human characteristic: fear, or laziness?

Speed Levitch: On really romantic evenings of self, I go salsa dancing with my confusion.

Speed Levitch: The ongoing WOW is happening right NOW.

Boat Car Guy: The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure while always arriving.

Otto Hofmann: The quest is to be liberated from the negative, which is really our own will to nothingness. And, once having said yes to the instant, the affirmation is contagious. It bursts into a chain of affirmations that knows no limit. To say yes to one instant, is to say yes to all of existence.

Alex Jones: Resistance is not futile, we're gonna win this thing, humankind is too good, we're not a bunch of under-achievers! We're gonna stand up, and we're gonna be human beings. We're going to get fired up about the real things, the things that matter! Creativity, and the dynamic human spirit that refuses to submit.

Guy Forsyth: The worst mistake that you can make is to think you're alive when really you're asleep in life's waiting room.

John Christensen: ...and, of course, everyone knows fun rules.

Alex Jones: We have got to realise that we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state.

Man on TV: I do not await the future, anticipating salvation, absolution, not even enlightenment through process. I subscribe to the premise that this flawed perfection is sufficient and complete, in every single ineffable moment.

Celine: I've been thinking also about something you said.
Jesse: What's that?
Celine: Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come through over time. Everybody says they have been the reincarnation of Cleopatra or Alexander The Great. I always want to tell them they were probably some dumb fuck like everybody else.

Pinball Playing Man: I mean, I'm not saying that you don't know what you're talking about, but I don't know what you're talking about.

John Christensen: Super perfundo on the early eve of your day.

Philosophy Professor: What you do makes a difference. We should never simply write ourselves off and see ourselves as the victim of various forces. It's always our decision who we are.

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