Famous Quotes Ipsum

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. never judge a book by its movie. a pain stabbed my heart as it did every time i saw a girl i loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world..

It takes two to speak truth - one to speak and another to hear. you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. one thing i've learned all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. we say that the hour of death cannot be forecast, but when we say this we imagine that hour as placed in an obscure and distant future. it never occurs to us that it has any connection with the day already begun or that death could arrive this same afternoon, this afternoon which is so certain and which has every hour filled in advance. 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. a man can no more diminish god's glory by refusing to worship him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell. i shall not die of a cold. i shall die of having lived. finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. 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. every now and then, everybody is entitled to too much perfection. 'the horror of that moment,' the king went on,' i shall never, never forget!'<p> life moves pretty fast. if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. the unexamined life is not worth living. to look life in the face, always, to look life in the face, and to know it for what it is. at last to know it, to love it, for what it is, and then, to put it away. leonard, always the years between us, always the years, always the love, always the hours.....

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. in the artist's own experience, of course, art is fundamentally indefinable, unsayable; there is something sacred about its demands upon the soul, something inherently mysterious in the forms it takes, no less than its contents. every child is an artist. the challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up. personally, i would sooner have written alice in wonderland than the whole encyclopedia britannica. what is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from the biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult to come by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become not merely unspoken but unspeakable.... all silence has a meaning. she walks in beauty, like the night / of cloudless climes and starry skies; / and all that's best of dark and bright / meet in her aspect and her eyes: / thus mellow'd to that tender light / which heaven to gaudy day denies every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power. i have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ere i'll weep. too often we get scared. scared of what we might not be able to do. scared of what people might think if we tried. we let fears stand in the way of our hopes. we say no when we want to say yes. we sit quietly when we want to scream. and we shout with the others when we should keep our mouths shut. why? after all, we do only go around once. there's really no time to be afraid. just do it. 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. nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. doing. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything i still believe that people are really good at heart. i simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. these things seem small and indistinguishable, like far-off mountains turned into clouds. what is to give light must endure burning. i am young. i am younger each year at the first snow. when i see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then i am in love again and very young and i believe everything. christ is in the manger and santa in heaven. it is beautiful that our lives coincided for so long. a pain stabbed my heart as it did every time i saw a girl i loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world..