Famous Quotes Ipsum

All art is quite useless. art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 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. curiosity is braver than rage. exploration is a nobler calling than combat. the unknown beckons to us, singing its siren song and making our hearts pound with fear and desire. all good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience. though she be but little, she is fierce. can i follow you home and listen to you think? the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. you're never fully dressed without a smile. do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. i have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ere i'll weep. be brave enough to live life creatively. the creative is the place where no one else has ever been. you have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. you can't get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you're the whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists. i liked how sterile my room was, cleansed of all the emotions that have ever been felt there, all the fights and lovemaking and plain rest of weary travelers wiped clean, leaving no mark on the perfectly made bed. millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon. when i have a terrible need of - shall i say the word? - religion, then i go out and paint the stars. the realization that he was utterly powerless was like the blow of a sledgehammer, yet it was curiously as well. no one was forcing him into a decision. the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. 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. the difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination. walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heart break. trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. the entertainment business. what voyeurs we all have become. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you there is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. goodbyes always make my throat hurt . . . i need more hellos. to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. 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..

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free. 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. if the person you're talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. it may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. i don't want my hair cut! i don't want my eyebrows up or down. i want them right where they are! i'm leaving now, and if anyone so much as makes a move to stop me, there'll be plenty of hair cut and it won't be mine! everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. never joke about a woman's hair, clothes or menstrual cycle. page one. a day is a miniature eternity. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. these qualities are rare enough in a world where sexual performance has become as obligatory as sexual abstinence - or the pretension to it - once was. the worst by-product of the so-called sexual revolution is the substitution of performance for passion. it's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. they are composed like music. guided by his sense of beauty, and individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (beethoven's music, death under a train) into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life. anna could have chosen another way to take her life. but the motif of death and the railway station, unforgettably bound to the birth of love, enticed her in her hour of despair with its dark beauty. without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. it takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. doing. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. i shall not die of a cold. i shall die of having lived. one can go on living when one is intoxicated by life. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. run for office? no. i've slept with too many women, i've done too many drugs, and i've been to too many parties. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. but you will,' the queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'</p> i know that a life without love is no life at all. we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. seize the day. make your lives extraordinary. are there not chapters in everybody's life that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history? life is a struggle, but there's hope and beauty in the world. even though a lot of our songs are dark, there's oftentimes the strain of 'but we're powerful as individuals and we're loved and we're good and the things we struggle with are the things that teach us the most and help us to grow.' in the end, that's what matters. the human soul is very much older than the human mind. 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..

Do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. he who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. my understanding of truth can change from day to day, and my commitment must be to truth rather than to consistency. to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. 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. for man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, perfectly alive..