Famous Quotes Ipsum

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. security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. action is eloquence. for as long as i can remember, i had been transparent to myself, unselfconscious, learning, doing, most of every day. now i was in my own way; i myself was a dark object i could not ignore. i couldn't remember how to forget myself. i didn't want to think about myself, to reckon myself in, to deal with myself every livelong minute on top of everything else - but swerve as i might, i couldn't avoid it. i was a boulder blocking my own path. i was a dog barking between my own ears, a barking dog who wouldn't hush. so this was adolescence..... think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. words mean more than what is set down on paper - it takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. if the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. 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. 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. that's the way things come clear. all of a sudden. and then you realize how obvious they've been all along. people living deeply have no fear of death. what is a hero? primarily one who has conquered his fears. 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. 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. 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. two paths diverged in a wood, and i - i took the one less traveled by. and that has made all the difference. be still and know that i am god. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. a memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 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. 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 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. neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being. live simply, but be complicated. for man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, perfectly alive. 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..

Out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle. it is beautiful that our lives coincided for so long.. Clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. does a hero know she's a hero if no one tells her? do you know a hero no one else knows? a hero doesn't have to save a busload of school kids from certain disaster; or score the winning point in the big game. a hero can be anyone who inspires you, anyone you look up to ,anyone who cheers you on, makes you feel better than you were before - just as they made themselves better then they were before. do you know a hero? tell her. then tell everyone else. truth is in the eye of the beholder. no man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain. it's awfully hard to be b-b-brave when you are only a very small animal. 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... true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. janis joplin taught me about passion. 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." never judge a book by its movie. at the worst i accepted hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. he who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'. as we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties, the inmost strength of the heart is developed. the earth laughs in flowers. he felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not now where he ended and she began. where there is great love there are always great miracles. i think of love, and you, and my heart grows full and warm, and my breath stands still. a life of self-indulgence, if led with a whole heart, may also bring a certain wisdom. 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. life moves pretty fast. if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. the human soul is very much older than the human mind. all sanity is great madness, but the greatest madness of all is to live life the way it is, rather than as it should be. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.

Security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. action is eloquence. so much of what i see reminds me of something i read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? in tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. for she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her: the books she took out of the municipal library, and above all, the novels. she had read any number of them, from fielding to thomas mann. they not only offered her the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for her as physical objects: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. it had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. it differentiated her from the others. i have not lived as a woman. i've lived as a man. i've just done what i damn well wanted to and i've made enough money to support myself and i ain't afraid of being alone. you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. it is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. they are composed like music. guided by his sense of beauty, and individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (beethoven's music, death under a train) into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life. anna could have chosen another way to take her life. but the motif of death and the railway station, unforgettably bound to the birth of love, enticed her in her hour of despair with its dark beauty. without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. i've learned that fate only takes you so far. after that, it's up to you to make it happen. 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. when you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon. i pray because i can't help myself. i pray because i'm helpless. i pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. it doesn't change god, it changes me. religion is a daughter of hope and fear, explaining to ignorance the nature of the unknowable. it's really a wonder that i haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. yet i keep them, because in spite of everything i still believe that people are really good at heart. i simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. at the worst i accepted hollywood with the resignation of a ghost assigned to a haunted house. what is to give light must endure burning. when you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you nothing revives the past so completely as a smell that was once associated with it. there is always a little corner which remains a secret to the world - and is only known to those two. the person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. his heart withers if it does not answer another heart. his mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. years ago i discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being..