Famous Quotes Ipsum

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. when i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 'when i was a kid,' said irie softly, ringing the bell for their stop, 'i used to think they were little alibis. bus tickets. i mean, look: they've got the time. the date. the place. and if i was up in court, and i had to defend myself, and prove i wasn't where they said i was, doing what they said i did, when they said i did it, i'd pull out one of those.' oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible..

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. tomboy. alright, call me a tomboy. tomboys get medals. tomboys win championships. tomboys can fly. oh, and tomboys aren't boys. 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. she thought now of the pink anemones waving in that water. like herself, when he'd first spied on her with her sensitive, fleshy tentacles of thought waving all around her, until he'd touched and made her draw up quickly into a stony fist. but he knew just how to touch her, speak to her, breathe on her, to draw her out again. physical pleasure was such a convincing illusion, and sex, the ultimate charade of safety. compassion can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? the choice may have been mistaken - the choosing was not. give me a museum and i'll fill it. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. life moves pretty fast. if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. thoreau once said most men lead lives of quiet desperation... don't be resigned to that. live life! i always thought of myself as a house. i was always what i lived in. it didn't need to be big. it didn't even need to be beautiful. it just needed to be mine. i became what i was meant to be. i built myself a life. i built myself a house..

My first thought about art, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else, a kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. that still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. i sincerely hope a new generation will stand up that says: let's develop our brains and not just our bodies. girls that will say to a christina aguilera: you think you're a strong woman because you show your red thong? get a grip and put on some clothes. the one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. the writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. poets . . . create from the very depths of the collective unconscious, voicing aloud what others only dream. your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. hell has no fury like women's fury. this is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. peace begins with a smile. question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear. 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. i often wonder: suppose we could begin life over again, knowing what we were doing? suppose we could use one life, already ended, as sort of a rough draft for another? i think that every one of us would try, more than anything else, not to repeat himself, at the very least he would rearrange his manner of life, he would make sure of rooms like these, with flowers and light... 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. sure, the world is full of trouble. but as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. i mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping. 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. at the worst i accepted hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house. if i had a formula for bypassing trouble, i wouldn't pass it around. wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. trouble creates a capacity to handle it. i don't say embrace trouble. that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. but i do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. 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. 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> loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. everybody loves a hero / an image to create / the antithesis of everything / inside ourselves we hate / but you'd better close your eyes / when it's time for them to die / because you'd hate to think the life you'd built upon them was a lie we grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but more like ourselves. neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. it's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. now, you may get the 8-pak, or you may get the 16-pak, but it's all in what you do with the crayons--the colors-- that you're given. now don't worry about coloring inside the lines or outside the lines. i say, color outside the lines! color right off the page!.