Famous Quotes Ipsum

Change only takes place through action. freedom lies in being bold. we turn, not older with years, but newer every day. the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. they must be felt with the heart. 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. personally, i would sooner have written alice in wonderland than the whole encyclopedia britannica. writers aren't people exactly. or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. it's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. who lean backward trying--only to see their faces in the reflecting chandeliers. truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. the mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heav'n of hell, a hell of heav'n. we all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? that's the way things come clear. all of a sudden. and then you realize how obvious they've been all along. too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. it isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for the long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. there is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear. 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. there are two kinds of people: those who say to god, "thy will be done," and those to whom god says, "all right, then, have it your way." the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible in memory, everything seems to happen to music. little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it. the primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion. a memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment ...love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds, / or bends with the remover to remove: / o no! it is an ever-fixed mark / that looks on tempests and is never shaken... there are two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle. live simply, but be complicated..

The artist's life is in his work, and this is the place to observe him. sit down before fact like a little child, and be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 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 we could stay that way forever; if we could stay filled to the brim and floating toward the darkness, never suffocating or dying - . loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty..

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness. 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. sleeping is curiously addictive. you are part of the world, but not in it, and somehow that just seems right. it seems enough. a new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. besides, i didn't have anything to fear anymore. maybe all post-suicidals feel that way. it's really great - it gives you a real sense of, not bravery exactly, and not recklessness, quite, but something in between the two. if i'd survived my own best attempts at dying, it probably just wasn't in the cards for me to perish young. anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. the creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport. keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. they took all the trees / and put them in a tree museum / and they charged all the people / a dollar and a half just to see 'em / don't it always seem to go / that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone / they paved paradise / and put up a parking lot i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go are there not chapters in everybody's life that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of history?.