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He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying. i always give myself such very good advice, but i very seldom follow it. i may know the word but not say it / i may know the truth but not face it / i may hear a sound, a whisper sacred and profound / but turn my head, indifferent we all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough? 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. sure, the world is full of trouble. but as long as we have people undoing trouble, we have a pretty good world. the trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. 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. what is to give light must endure burning. 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..

My first thought about art, as a child, was that the artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and that he does it without destroying something else, a kind of refutation of the conservation of matter. that still seems to me its central magic, its core of joy. the ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. love is a great beautifier. why do some people always see beautiful skies and grass and lovely flowers and incredible human beings, while others are hard-pressed to find anything or any place that is beautiful? poetry does not necessarily have to be beautiful to stick in the depths of our memory. poets . . . create from the very depths of the collective unconscious, voicing aloud what others only dream. metaphors are not to be trifled with. a single metaphor can give birth to love. the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. one thing i've learned all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that. it is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. it's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. what is a hero? primarily one who has conquered his fears. 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. under every deep, a lower deep opens. the only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible so since i've been home, i've learned two important things: ethernet is a gift from god, and it just doesn't sound the same to listen to the indigo girls without two people singing along. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you the human soul is very much older than the human mind. 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..

Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. interesting that the beliefs of others are labeled mere superstitions, mr. todd. ours we call religion. these things seem small and indistinguishable, like far-off mountains turned into clouds. when you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. no pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. no man's life is ordinary to himself. 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. it's like you come onto this planet with a crayon box. now, you may get the 8-pak, or you may get the 16-pak, but it's all in what you do with the crayons--the colors-- that you're given. now don't worry about coloring inside the lines or outside the lines. i say, color outside the lines! color right off the page!.
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