Tom Hodgkinson Quotes

Boredom is the very opposite of beauty and truth. Life has been sacrificed to profit, and the result is boredom on a massive scale.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

Our dreams take us into other worlds, alternative realities that help us make sense of day-to-day realities.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

...[W]e should be mucking about all the time, because mucking about is enjoying life for its own sake, now, and not in preparation for an imaginary future. It's obvious that the mirth-filled man, the cheerful soul, the childish adult is the one who has least to fear from life.