Famous Quotes Ipsum

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. the unexamined life is not worth living.. Imagining something is better than remembering something. the artist's life is in his work, and this is the place to observe him. art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. 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. 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. metaphors are not to be trifled with. a single metaphor can give birth to love. the obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. compassion can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind. i shall not die of a cold. i shall die of having lived. 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. the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible we are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars..

Every child is an artist. the challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up. the act of writing is the act of discovering what you believe. if you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. spending time is inevitable. you're going to spend your time doing something. it might as well be something you want to do. never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. with our thoughts, we make the world. 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. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? 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... 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. two paths diverged in a wood, and i - i took the one less traveled by. and that has made all the difference. enough! or too much. we shall not cease from exploration - and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - and know the place for the first time. you teach what you have to learn. it is not necessary to have achieved perfection to speak of perfection. it is not necessary to have achieved mastery to speak of mastery. it is not necessary to have achieved the highest level of evolution to speak of the highest level of evolution. seek only to be genuine. strive to be sincere. as we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties, the inmost strength of the heart is developed. if any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after awhile, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up. a life of self-indulgence, if led with a whole heart, may also bring a certain wisdom..

I would rather fix something more important than my hair. change only takes place through action. we turn, not older with years, but newer every day. sure, the world is full of trouble. but as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. 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. no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. the human soul is very much older than the human mind. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.