Famous Quotes Ipsum

I saw the angel in the marble and carved until i set him free. 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. change only takes place through action. thou shalt not be a victim. thou shalt not be a perpetrator. above all, thou shalt not be a bystander. 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. youth is wasted on the young. we do not write in order to be understood, we write in order to understand. the moment of change is the only poem. the opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. 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. history is particularly important in throwing light on the source of our attitudes about sex because many of the assumptions we make are not necessarily scientific or rational but holdovers of past belief systems that are no longer held by modern society. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? feel the fear and do it anyway. when i have a terrible need of - shall i say the word? - religion, then i go out and paint the stars. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! 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. he who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. as we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties, the inmost strength of the heart is developed. out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle. your mind might make a connection that is useful. but true is another matter. true implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. and i must say that i have never seen such a connection in my life. there are times when i suspect that there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creatures of thought and have no substance. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative..

Words mean more than what is set down on paper - it takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. metaphors are not to be trifled with. a single metaphor can give birth to love. do you understand, / child, how the moon, the tide / is in our own image? if the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. 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? music has been in my heart all the time, and poetry in my thoughts. everytime you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. i must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. 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. 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. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make interesting that the beliefs of others are labeled mere superstitions, mr. todd. ours we call religion. i discovered i scream the same way whether i'm about to be devoured by a great white or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. 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. give me a museum and i'll fill it. never judge a book by its movie. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. these things seem small and indistinguishable, like far-off mountains turned into clouds. adversity is like a strong wind. i don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. it also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. you know that place between sleep and awake? where you still remember dreaming? that's where i'll always think of you. your mind might make a connection that is useful. but true is another matter. true implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. and i must say that i have never seen such a connection in my life. there are times when i suspect that there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creatures of thought and have no substance. it is beautiful that our lives coincided for so long. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative. live simply, but be complicated..

. Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. 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. action is eloquence. one can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. and may these characters remain / when all is ruin once again never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other -- it doesn't matter who it is -- and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. what do you experience with your first mouthful of hot fudge sundae? its not surprising that we carry it over to describe the intensity of love and sex. it's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. early in the novel that tereza clutched under her arm when she went to visit tomas, anna meets vronsky in curious circumstances: they are at the railway station when someone is run over by a train. at the end of the novel, anna throws herself under a train. this symmetrical composition - the same motif appears at the beginning and at the end - may seem quite 'novelistic' to you, and i am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as 'fictive', 'fabricated', and 'untrue to life' into the word 'novelistic'. because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundations of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, every school. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. it is not upon you alone the dark patches fall. your mind might make a connection that is useful. but true is another matter. true implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. and i must say that i have never seen such a connection in my life. there are times when i suspect that there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creatures of thought and have no substance. i know that a life without love is no life at all. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love. there is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go. i wish you could invent some means to make me at all happy without you. every hour i am more and more concentrated in you; every thing else tastes like chaff in my mouth. hope is a dangerous thing. drive a man insane. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.