Famous Quotes Ipsum

Tolerating blind obedience in the name of patriotism or religion ultimately takes our lives. 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. 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. the opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. can i follow you home and listen to you think? think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. returning, i had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. all looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality; and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: i thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of travelers. pooh looked at his two paws. he knew that one of them was the right, and he knew that when you had decided which of them was the right, then the other was the left, but he never could remember how to begin. janis joplin taught me about passion. give me a museum and i'll fill it. 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. i know that a life without love is no life at all. doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love..

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. not being beautiful was the true blessing.... not being beautiful forced me to develop my inner resources. the pretty girl has a handicap to overcome. and may these characters remain / when all is ruin once again all good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath. you're never fully dressed without a smile. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. 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. 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. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make be still and know that i am god. can't say fairer than that. unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. all things are possible until they are proved impossible - and even the impossible, may only be so as of now. the sky was that deep sunday blue going black, just on the cusp of color seeping into empty space. the officials thought it was a cruel joke to leave us stranded in the desert with no way to get home. what they didn't realize was that we were home, soul-centered and strong, women who recognized the sweet smell of sage as fuel for our spirits. a memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment 'the horror of that moment,' the king went on,' i shall never, never forget!'<p> to love another person is to see the face of god. to live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common. this is to be my symphony..

Change is an easy panacea. it takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. love is a great beautifier. clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. an illiterate underbred book . . . the book of a self-taught working man . . . egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. and may these characters remain / when all is ruin once again the only thing worth saying is what you really feel. if you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''good morning'' at total strangers. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. no man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. compassion can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. 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. when the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate. creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.' we don't say everything that we could / so that we can say later / "oh, you misunderstood" religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. all humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. i say to mankind, be not curious about god. for i, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - i hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least. ordinary people believe only in the possible. extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. and by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. it's so sweet, i feel like my teeth are rotting when i listen to the radio. never judge a book by its movie. i don't think there is anything good about fame. 'tables in restaurants.' people say that but, then again, why don't you just call the day before? or go eat somewhere else? perfection is terrible; it cannot have children. the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. i'm at peace with the world. i'm completely serene. i've discovered my purpose in life. i know why i was put here and why everything exists... i am here so everybody can do what i want. once everybody accepts it, they'll be serene too. we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. 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.....