Famous Quotes Ipsum

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it. always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors. try to be better than yourself. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. the act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. the blood jet is poetry, there is no stopping it. 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. the obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. one of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. give me a museum and i'll fill it. 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. it is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love. i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go there i am in younger days, stargazing / painting picture perfect maps / of how my life and love would be / not counting the unmarked paths / of misdirection / my compass, faith in love's perfection / i missed ten million miles of road / i should have seen.

Nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. freedom lies in being bold. change is an easy panacea. it takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. to read a writer, for me, is not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. when you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. 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. when i dare to be powerful / to use my strength / in the service of my vision / then it becomes / less and less important / whether i am afraid. be still and know that i am god. they say that god is everywhere, and yet we always think of him as somewhat of a recluse. fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. 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 think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. goodbyes always make my throat hurt . . . i need more hellos. 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. 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. the human soul is very much older than the human mind..

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. we must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee. 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. one of the impressive qualities of charlotte brontë's heroines, the quality that makes them more valuable to the woman reader than anna karenina, emma bovary, and catherine earnshaw combined is their determined refusal to be romantic. can i follow you home and listen to you think? think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself. our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities, or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidence. do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. the cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. 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. as to the way i've spent my money, i think it has done credit to my emotions, and i don't regret it. on occasion, i have calculated things to a very fine point, but you may well cease hoping that i will ever be practical in the accepted sense. i would sooner die..