Famous Quotes Ipsum

Never trust the artist. trust the tale. we do not write in order to be understood, we write in order to understand. i've learned that fate only takes you so far. after that, it's up to you to make it happen. what is a hero? primarily one who has conquered his fears. from my rotting body, flowers shall grow and i am in them and that is eternity. 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. the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. 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. footfalls echo in the memory / down the passage we did not take / towards the door we never opened / into the rose garden 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 i think the loneliest thing is to be alone with another person. i'd rather be by myself than with someone who has no idea who i am. hope is a dangerous thing. drive a man insane. 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! 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..

The way i see it, the men that i'm with, whoever they are, it's like look, you have to accept that i like ice cream, and i know it shows up on my hips but if you can't accept that, then leave. go away. toodles. it is non-negotiable. power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. if a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as michelangelo painted, or beethoven composed music, or shakespeare composed poetry. he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. 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 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. 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. there are absolute things in the world but you must look deeply for them. the things that first present themselves to your notice are for the most part relative. fame lost its appeal for me when i went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door..

Imagination is more powerful than knowledge. security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. when i get a little money, i buy books; and, if any is left, i buy food and clothes. it was only the first of many occasions during those months that seemed to take place out of time, or in a historical moment i had yet to identify. the heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night..