“There is plenty of misery in the world, all right, but there is ample pleasure, as well. If a person forswears pleasure… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
When a man confines an animal in a cage, he assumes ownership of that animal. But an animal is an individual; it… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
If desire causes suffering, it may be because we do not desire wisely, or that we are inexpert at obtaining what we… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
There are times when we can feel destiny close around us like a fist around a doorknob. Sure, we can resist. But a knob… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The party in Alobar’s head, which agitation and anxiety were throwing, now was crashed by a notion: existence can be rearranged. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I believe in everything; nothing is sacred. I believe in nothing; everything is sacred. Ha Ha Ho Ho Hee Hee.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“Love is the ultimate outlaw. It just won't adhere to any rules. The most any of us can do is to sign on as… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“The glue that holds the natural world together appears to be a harmonious balance of opposites: day and night, light and dark, winter and… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Zippers are primal and modern at the very same time. On the one hand, your zipper is primitive and reptilian, on the other, mechanical… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
She continued weeping until the heat of her tear water, the sheer velocity of its flow, finally obscured the already vague circumstances of its… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
![“My personal motto has always been: Joy in spite of everything. Not just [mindless] joy, but joy in spite of everything. Recognizing the inequities and the suffering and the corruption and all that but refusing to let it rain on my parade. And I advocate this to other people.” quote by Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/eb3/tom-robbins-169_corruption_my-personal-motto-has-always-been-joy-in_557352.jpg)
