Famous Quotes Ipsum

I could lay here and read all night. i am not able to fall asleep without reading. you have that time when your brain has nothing constructive to do so it rambles. i fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. i just think it's best to do something right up until you fall asleep. on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. the change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. besides, i didn't have anything to fear anymore. maybe all post-suicidals feel that way. it's really great - it gives you a real sense of, not bravery exactly, and not recklessness, quite, but something in between the two. if i'd survived my own best attempts at dying, it probably just wasn't in the cards for me to perish young. i look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. we shall rise again refreshed in the morning. a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. we shall not cease from exploration - and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - and know the place for the first time. 'so i ran like the wind to the water "please don't leave me again" i cried. and i threw bitter tears at the ocean and all that came back was the tide..

. Love is a great beautifier. writers tend to devour people, themselves included. the moment of change is the only poem. and may these characters remain / when all is ruin once again to talk to each other is but a more animated and audible thinking. 'when i was a kid,' said irie softly, ringing the bell for their stop, 'i used to think they were little alibis. bus tickets. i mean, look: they've got the time. the date. the place. and if i was up in court, and i had to defend myself, and prove i wasn't where they said i was, doing what they said i did, when they said i did it, i'd pull out one of those.' do, or do not. there is no "try". wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. when you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. a new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? call it fate, call it luck, call it karma. i believe everything happens for a reason. i have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ere i'll weep. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. 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. great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse. as to the way i've spent my money, i think it has done credit to my emotions, and i don't regret it. on occasion, i have calculated things to a very fine point, but you may well cease hoping that i will ever be practical in the accepted sense. i would sooner die. so since i've been home, i've learned two important things: ethernet is a gift from god, and it just doesn't sound the same to listen to the indigo girls without two people singing along. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you 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. 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..

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. creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am in them and that is eternity. no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. we grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. it's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. now, you may get the 8-pak, or you may get the 16-pak, but it's all in what you do with the crayons--the colors-- that you're given. now don't worry about coloring inside the lines or outside the lines. i say, color outside the lines! color right off the page!.