Famous Quotes Ipsum

If the person you're talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. it may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. the street corner where always, for years, in passing you felt, unexplained, a pang of despair, like nausea, till one night, late, late, on that spot you were struck, struck still, and again felt how her head had thrust to your shoulder..

Words mean more than what is set down on paper - it takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. when i have a terrible need of - shall i say the word? - religion, then i go out and paint the stars. but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? what i couldn't say was that the real reason was so much deeper and harder and that we spend our lives deceiving ourselves of these real reasons, perhaps because when they are clear they are too painful. the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ordinary people believe only in the possible. extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. and by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. as we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties, the inmost strength of the heart is developed. there is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. art thou pale for weariness / of climbing heaven and gazing on earth / wandering companionless... no man's life is ordinary to himself..

Security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. i am woman, hear me roar! my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. can i follow you home and listen to you think? simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. returning, i had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. all looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality; and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: i thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of travelers. but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best we can't all, and some of us don't. that's all there is to it. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it..