Famous Quotes Ipsum

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. art teaches nothing but the significance of life. change only takes place through action. when you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly. if the person you're talking to doesn't appear to be listening, be patient. it may simply be that he has a small piece of fluff in his ear. i always give myself such very good advice, but i very seldom follow it. the longer i live the more i become convinced that the only thing that matters in literature is the writer is first of all an enchanter. mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves--that's the truth. we have two or three great moving experiences in our lives--experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time that anyone else has been so caught up and pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. 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. 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. we are wise, wise women. we are giggling girls. peace begins with a smile. to find the universal elements enough; to find the air and the water exhilarating; to be refreshed by a morning walk or an evening saunter... to be thrilled by the stars at night; to be elated over a bird's nest or a wildflower in spring - these are some of the rewards of the simple life. be content with what you have, rejoice in the way things are. when you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you. why is compassion not part of our established curriculum, an inherent part of our education? compassion, awe, wonder, curiosity, exaltation, humility - these are the very foundations of any real civilization, no longer the prerogatives, the preserves of any one church, but belonging to everyone, every child in every home, every school. i lay down on the parched ground and looked as hard as i could at the blue sky. i wanted to feel the sheerness of space, to somehow reach what was empty and quiet, to hold what was right beyond my grasp. 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. start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. if i had a formula for bypassing trouble, i wouldn't pass it around. wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. trouble creates a capacity to handle it. i don't say embrace trouble. that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. but i do say, meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it. but you will,' the queen said, 'if you don't make a memorandum of it.'</p> doubt thou the stars are fine / doubt that the sun doth move / doubt truth be a liar / but never doubt i love. a life of self-indulgence, if led with a whole heart, may also bring a certain wisdom. no man's life is ordinary to himself..

A book is a present you can open again and again. so much of what i see reminds me of something i read in a book, when shouldn't it be the other way around? weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. 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. who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught tangled in a woman's body? if i can stop one heart from breaking, i will not live in vain. the whole difference between construction and creation is this; that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed, but a thing created is loved before it exists. 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. 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. goodbyes always make my throat hurt . . . i need more hellos..

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it. 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. we turn, not older with years, but newer every day. love is a great beautifier. i would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words. your daughter has a quick and witty tongue. do you understand, / child, how the moon, the tide / is in our own image? hell has no fury like women's fury. on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth. the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. you set up your place in my thoughts / moved in and made my thinking crowded. do, or do not. there is no "try". there are no mistakes, no coincidences. all events are blessings given to us to learn from. 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. nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. when i have a terrible need of - shall i say the word? - religion, then i go out and paint the stars. i shall not die of a cold. i shall die of having lived. 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. the very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. ordinary people believe only in the possible. extraordinary people visualize not what is possible or probable, but rather what is impossible. and by visualizing the impossible, they begin to see it as possible. the difference between the possible and the impossible lies in a person's determination. give me a museum and i'll fill it. 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. 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. one does not love a place the less for having suffered in it unless it has all been suffering, nothing but suffering. your mind might make a connection that is useful. but true is another matter. true implies that you have found a connection that exists independent of your apprehension of it, that would exist whether you noticed it or not. and i must say that i have never seen such a connection in my life. there are times when i suspect that there are no such connections, that all links, bonds, ties, and similarities are creatures of thought and have no substance. when christ said: "i was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. jesus himself experienced this loneliness. he came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. the same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. every human being in that case resembles christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger..