Famous Quotes Ipsum

I always give myself such very good advice, but i very seldom follow it. the act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. i am woman, hear me roar! the search for truth is more precious than its possession. truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. what do you experience with your first mouthful of hot fudge sundae? its not surprising that we carry it over to describe the intensity of love and sex. a new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. 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. 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. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. surely a king who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory. fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. perfection is terrible; it cannot have children. every man's memory is his private literature. 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. 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. it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative. what is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. it is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. it is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. 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.' you set up your place in my thoughts / moved in and made my thinking crowded. if you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''good morning'' at total strangers. too often we get scared. scared of what we might not be able to do. scared of what people might think if we tried. we let fears stand in the way of our hopes. we say no when we want to say yes. we sit quietly when we want to scream. and we shout with the others when we should keep our mouths shut. why? after all, we do only go around once. there's really no time to be afraid. just do it. nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. enough! or too much. there exists a passion for comprehension, just as there is a passion for music. that passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most of us later on. the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. in a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that god could still create perfection. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 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. to conquer loneliness we shall each have to assume the sacred responsibility of becoming a complete person. and most of all, to define ourselves without always including someone else in the definition. the person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. his heart withers if it does not answer another heart. his mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. 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. thoreau once said most men lead lives of quiet desperation... don't be resigned to that. live life!.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. i would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words. i am woman, hear me roar! if you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make 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. 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. when you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. one of the earliest lessons i learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back. the sky was that deep sunday blue going black, just on the cusp of color seeping into empty space. they took all the trees / and put them in a tree museum / and they charged all the people / a dollar and a half just to see 'em / don't it always seem to go / that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone / they paved paradise / and put up a parking lot years ago i discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down..