Famous Quotes Ipsum

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. 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. saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. new adventures hid around each corner. the future was again a secret. the writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. i would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words. the only thing worth saying is what you really feel. but surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to speed the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect. and as archie knows, it's not like that. it's never been like that. have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause in a roomful of people when someone is just about to speak, or, most beautiful of all, the moment after the door closes and you're all alone in the whole house? each one is different, you know, and all very beautiful, if you listen carefully. 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. in our minds we can understand the highest god, but so long as we are in human bodies living in this rich and varied world, we need images that we can see and touch and love. and each one of them shows us a part of that supreme power, and all the parts together give us a glimpse of the whole. so the people who insist there is only one god are right, and so are those who honor the many, but they are right in different ways. religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. 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. he who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'. one does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. if we could stay that way forever; if we could stay filled to the brim and floating toward the darkness, never suffocating or dying - . i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. 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..

When i dare to be powerful / to use my strength / in the service of my vision / then it becomes / less and less important / whether i am afraid. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas..

I would rather fix something more important than my hair. love is a great beautifier. anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. to read a writer, for me, is not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. to laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and ignore the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed by social condition; or to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to have succeeded. this is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. it isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. two paths diverged in a wood, and i - i took the one less traveled by. and that has made all the difference. religion is what the individual does with his own solitariness. one can go on living when one is intoxicated by life. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. 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. 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..