Famous Quotes Ipsum

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. the stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. love is a great beautifier. everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. it's hard to stay mad when there's so much beauty in the world. sometimes i feel like i'm seeing it all at once and it's too much. my heart fills up like a balloon that's about to burst, and then i remember to relax and stop trying to hold on to it and it flows through me like rain and i can feel nothing but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid, little life. you have no idea what i'm talking about, i'm sure, but don't worry. you will someday. the way i see it, the men that i'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that i like ice cream, and i know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. go away. toodles. it is non-negotiable. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. never joke about a woman's hair, clothes or menstrual cycle. page one. on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. if you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. spending time is inevitable. you're going to spend your time doing something. it might as well be something you want to do. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. the feeling of sunday is the same everywhere: heavy, melancholy, standing still. like when they say, 'as it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be; world without end.' the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. peace begins with a smile. i must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundations of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, every school. never during its pilgrimage is the spirit of man completely adrift and alone. from start to finish its nucleus is the atman - the self - luminous abiding point, boundless as the sky, indivisible, absolute, the only reality. the soul is an emanation of the divinity, a part of the soul of the world, a ray from the source of light. it comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, it goes out of it anew; it wanders in ethereal regions, it returns to visit.... it passes into other habitations, for the soul is immortal. a man can no more diminish god's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. i try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time. my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything i still believe that people are really good at heart. i simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. i am young. i am younger each year at the first snow. when i see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then i am in love again and very young and i believe everything. christ is in the manger and santa in heaven. maybe that's not exactly how it happened. but that's the way it should have happened. and that's the way i like to remember it. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free i wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. every hour i am more and more concentrated in you; every thing else tastes like chaff in my mouth. tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice..

Change only takes place through action. freedom lies in being bold. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. now, what was tiring had disappeared and only the beauty remained. a book is a present you can open again and again. i am not quite sure how writing changes things, but i know that it does. it is indirect - like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. it is not always deliberate - like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets. but it does have an effect on the cosmos. before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. the act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded. i may know the word but not say it / i may know the truth but not face it / i may hear a sound, a whisper sacred and profound / but turn my head, indifferent if the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. peace begins with a smile. it's at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. i don't know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. i wish i believed, as j. b. priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! a "bad night" is not always a bad thing. destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. many people think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction life desires or wills, but really, we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we realize this fact. man is responsible for his rise and fall. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make i try to draw the line but it ends up running down the middle of me most of the time. all humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. we don't see things as they are - we see them as we are. you teach what you have to learn. it is not necessary to have achieved perfection to speak of perfection. it is not necessary to have achieved mastery to speak of mastery. it is not necessary to have achieved the highest level of evolution to speak of the highest level of evolution. seek only to be genuine. strive to be sincere. moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. the primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion. maybe that's not exactly how it happened. but that's the way it should have happened. and that's the way i like to remember it. he felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not now where he ended and she began. it is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. watching stars without you, my soul cries seize the day. make your lives extraordinary. horror is shock, a time of utter blindness. horror lacks every hint of beauty. all we can see is the piercing light of an unknown event awaiting us. sadness, on the other hand, assumes we are in the know. the unexamined life is not worth living..

Security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. one can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. never joke about a woman's hair, clothes or menstrual cycle. page one. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. i've learned that fate only takes you so far. after that, it's up to you to make it happen. destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. many people think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction life desires or wills, but really, we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we realize this fact. man is responsible for his rise and fall. it's awfully hard to be b-b-brave when you are only a very small animal. when you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. i shall not die of a cold. i shall die of having lived. the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. i say to mankind, be not curious about god. for i, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - i hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least. 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. when you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. i am young. i am younger each year at the first snow. when i see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then i am in love again and very young and i believe everything. christ is in the manger and santa in heaven. live simply, but be complicated. i live my life in widening rings..