Famous Quotes Ipsum

Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. 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. clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. 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. when power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. when power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. when power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement. a day is a miniature eternity. the obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. sex. in america it's an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact. that's the way things come clear. all of a sudden. and then you realize how obvious they've been all along. i pray because i can't help myself. i pray because i'm helpless. i pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. it doesn't change god, it changes me. watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. never judge a book by its movie. 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. how many joys are crushed under foot because people look up at the sky and disregard what is at their feet? the fact is, i was a trifle beside myself; or rather out of myself, as the french would say: i was conscious that at moment's mutiny had already rendered me liable to strange penalties and, like any other rebel slave, i felt resolved, in my desperation, to go to all lengths. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. 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..

All art is quite useless. change only takes place through action. 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. 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! if the path is beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. spending time is inevitable. you're going to spend your time doing something. it might as well be something you want to do. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse. the form of government most suitable to the artist is no government at all. one of the earliest lessons i learned as a child was that if you looked away from something, it might not be there when you looked back. out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle..

Change only takes place through action. when you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. love is a great beautifier. the writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words? 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. 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 awfully hard to be b-b-brave when you are only a very small animal. it isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. maybe that's what bravery is, a stronger fear of not being brave. let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. if you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want and all that is left is a compromise. in a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that god could still create perfection. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest. some things are true whether you believe them or not. i think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. seize the day. make your lives extraordinary. 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. neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.