Famous Quotes Ipsum

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. you set up your place in my thoughts / moved in and made my thinking crowded. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. there has never been an answer. there never will be an answer. that's the answer. 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. what is a hero? primarily one who has conquered his fears. one of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. the fear of death follows from the fear of life. a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. all religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. all these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom. i look upon death to be as necessary to the constitution as sleep. we shall rise again refreshed in the morning. it is not upon you alone the dark patches fall. the choice may have been mistaken - the choosing was not. we can't all, and some of us don't. that's all there is to it. the universe is made of stories, not atoms. if we could stay that way forever; if we could stay filled to the brim and floating toward the darkness, never suffocating or dying - . loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight. are there not chapters in everybody's life that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history? all sanity is great madness, but the greatest madness of all is to live life the way it is, rather than as it should be..

Change only takes place through action. words do not express thoughts very well. they always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. 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. any job a man can do to make his way in the world is a decent job as long as he works hard and does his best. god didn't put sweat on a man's body for no reason. he put it there so he could work hard, cleanse himself and feel proud. hard workin' folks only smell bad to some folks who have nothing better to do but stick their noses in the air. the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. the difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? the sky was that deep sunday blue going black, just on the cusp of color seeping into empty space. a wizard is never late. nor is he early. he arrives precisely when he means to. for man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, perfectly alive..

Power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. sex. in america it's an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact. i have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ere i'll weep. the fear of death follows from the fear of life. a man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. sure, the world is full of trouble. but as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?.