Famous Quotes Ipsum

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. tolerating blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. our collective will to resist what is unjust is like a fire that cannot be put out. 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. 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. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. 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. be still and know that i am god. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. i don't think there is anything good about fame. 'tables in restaurants.' people say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? or go eat somewhere else? the flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all..

We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. it seems that whatever goes into my mouth makes me fat, just as whatever comes out of it embarrasses me. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. if a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as michelangelo painted, or beethoven composed music, or shakespeare composed poetry. he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. 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. pooh looked at his two paws. he knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which of them was the right, then the other was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. i preach there are all kinds of truths, your truth and somebody else's. but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth..

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. every child is an artist. the challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up. nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. the writer should never be ashamed of staring. there is nothing that does not require his attention. i am a woman committed to / a politics / of transliteration, the methodology / of a mind / stunned at the suddenly / possible shifts of meaning - for which / like amnesiacs / in a ward on fire, we must / find words / or burn i am woman, hear me roar! you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. to find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. and if tonight my soul may find her peace / in sleep, and sink in good oblivion, / and in the morning wake like a new-opened flower / then i have been dipped again in god, and new-created. history is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? if i can stop one heart from breaking, i will not live in vain. do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. it takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make for what is it to die / why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong? most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. adversity is like a strong wind. i don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. it also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. moonlight is sculpture; sunlight is painting. i preach there are all kinds of truths, your truth and somebody else's. but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. to love another person is to see the face of god. i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go when christ said: "i was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. jesus himself experienced this loneliness. he came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. the same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. every human being in that case resembles christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger. i glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all..