Famous Quotes Ipsum

. I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. in the artist's own experience, of course, art is fundamentally indefinable, unsayable; there is something sacred about its demands upon the soul, something inherently mysterious in the forms it takes, no less than its contents. artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. the stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. change is an easy panacea. it takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. sex. in america it's an obsession; in other parts of the world, a fact. why? wherefore? inasmuch as which? a prudent question is one half of wisdom. no man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy sunday afternoon. 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. why do we kill people who kill people to show that killing people is wrong? the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. 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 you can't help respecting anybody who can spell tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right. it is not good for all our wishes to be fulfilled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest..

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. the writer should never be ashamed of staring. there is nothing that does not require his attention. words mean more than what is set down on paper - it takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. in our struggle for freedom, truth is the only weapon we possess. if you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. we all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. it is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. people living deeply have no fear of death. i have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws ere i'll weep. 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 creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life. keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best 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. the happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. it's so sweet, i feel like my teeth are rotting when i listen to the radio. a bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. he who has a 'why' to live can bear almost any 'how'. the world breaks us all. afterward, some are stronger at the broken places. out yonder there is this huge world... which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle. doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love. 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.

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. every child is an artist. the challenge is to remain an artist once he grows up. i would rather fix something more important than my hair. change is an easy panacea. it takes character to stay in one place and be happy there. once you are real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. if the path is beautiful, let us not ask where it leads. i am not quite sure how writing changes things, but i know that it does. it is indirect - like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. it is not always deliberate - like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets. but it does have an effect on the cosmos. before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. the act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded. an illiterate underbred book . . . the book of a self-taught working man . . . egotistic, insistent, raw, striking, and ultimately nauseating. when power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. when power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. when power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement. 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. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. can i follow you home and listen to you think? nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. but i always think that the best way to know god is to love many things. bush thinks he is still living in the age of cowboys, and that the world is like texas with himself as sheriff. if we build a society based on honoring the earth, we build a society which is sustainable, and has the capacity to support all life forms. doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love. 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good. i must pack my short life full of interesting events and creative activity. philosophy and aesthetic contemplation are not enough. i intend to do everything possible to broaden my experiences and allow myself to reach the fullest development. tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. what is life? it is the flash of a firefly in the night. it is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. it is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset..