Famous Quotes Ipsum

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. saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. new adventures hid around each corner. the future was again a secret. the change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. it takes two to speak truth - one to speak and another to hear. every now and then go away, even briefly, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer; since to remain constantly at work will cause you to lose power. fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. it's still snowing. and freezing. however, we haven't had an earthquake lately. live simply, but be complicated..

Saturday found him for the first time strolling alone through zurich, breathing in the heady smell of his freedom. new adventures hid around each corner. the future was again a secret. so much of what i see reminds me of something i read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? perhaps you too have met in the cause of your life women of that sort, who are self-luminous and shine in the dark, who are phosphorescent, like touchwood. it is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of anna, vronsky, the railway station and death, or the meeting of beethoven, tomas, tereza, and the cognac), but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. for he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty. oh help! i'd better go back. oh bother! i shall have to go on. i can't do either! oh help and bother! we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. a life of self-indulgence, if led with a whole heart, may also bring a certain wisdom..

The writer should never be ashamed of staring. there is nothing that does not require his attention. to laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and ignore the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or redeemed by social condition; or to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. this is to have succeeded. nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. i mean, even the most spiritual person loves to go shopping. give me a museum and i'll fill it. beauty and grace are performed whether or not we will or sense them. the least we can do is try to be there. 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. my piano is a universe. those eighty-eight keys arrange the seven planets in musical scales, an aural cosmos. years ago i discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down..