Famous Quotes Ipsum

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. 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. a day is a miniature eternity. sex. in america it's an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact. by all accounts, sex is a personally encoded communique, continually reinvented. if i can stop one heart from breaking, i will not live in vain. feel the fear and do it anyway. religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. the primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion. if we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. some things are true whether you believe them or not. you're all i notice in a crowded room..

Art teaches nothing but the significance of life. advice is what we ask for when we know the answer but wish we didn't. think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. love is a great beautifier. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. a single sun shines here and in the land where i was born, though we call it by different names. in the realm of idea, the great principles behind the forms that we see are the same. 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. 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 is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. 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. 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. there is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. as the last leaf falls it only symbolizes the end of the tree's cycle, not the end of the tree's life. so too, as we complete our life cycle, there is a new beginning as our souls journey onward. prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. i discovered i scream the same way whether i'm about to be devoured by a great white or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. janis joplin taught me about passion. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. listening four or five times a day to newscasters and commentators, reading the morning papers and all the weeklies and monthlies - nowadays this is described as 'taking an interest in politics'. st. john of the cross would have called it indulgence in idle curiosity and the cultivation of disquietude for disquietude's sake. most of the dandelions had changed from suns to moons. 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. music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to men is felt to be so divine. it brings us nearer to the infinite. it is curious how silly, trivial things, sometimes for no apparent reason, become significant. at first you laugh at these things, you think they are of no importance, you go on and you feel that you haven't got the strength to stop yourself... and so it seems to me that if i die, i shall take part in life one way or another. there are two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. it's kind of fun to do the impossible. 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. when i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. poetry does not necessarily have to be beautiful to stick in the depths of our memory. if the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. 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. with our thoughts, we make the world. by all accounts, sex is a personally encoded communique, continually reinvented. there has never been an answer. there never will be an answer. that's the answer. do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. interesting that the beliefs of others are labeled mere superstitions, mr. todd. ours we call religion. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. 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. 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..