Famous Quotes Ipsum

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. you can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. clothes make the man. naked people have little or no influence on society. writers tend to devour people, themselves included. words mean more than what is set down on paper - it takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning. it's strange that words are so inadequate. yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words. she thought now of the pink anemones waving in that water. like herself, when he'd first spied on her with her sensitive, fleshy tentacles of thought waving all around her, until he'd touched and made her draw up quickly into a stony fist. but he knew just how to touch her, speak to her, breathe on her, to draw her out again. physical pleasure was such a convincing illusion, and sex, the ultimate charade of safety. creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. the cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. 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. the choice may have been mistaken - the choosing was not. interesting that the beliefs of others are labeled mere superstitions, mr. todd. ours we call religion. janis joplin taught me about passion. 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. we shall not cease from exploration - and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started - and know the place for the first time. fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. the primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion. he felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not now where he ended and she began. loss is nothing else but change, and change is nature's delight..

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. there is something very wonderful in music. words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. it speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. music soothes us, stirs us up; it puts noble feelings in us; it melts us to tears; we know not how - it is a language by itself, just as perfect, in its way, as speech, as words..

It's important to have a voice; it's more important to use it. the opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. 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. i must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. i've learned that fate only takes you so far. after that, it's up to you to make it happen. too often we get scared. scared of what we might not be able to do. scared of what people might think if we tried. we let fears stand in the way of our hopes. we say no when we want to say yes. we sit quietly when we want to scream. and we shout with the others when we should keep our mouths shut. why? after all, we do only go around once. there's really no time to be afraid. just do it. there must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but i don't know many of them. whenever i'm sad i'm going to die, or so nervous i can't sleep, or in love with somebody i won't be seeing for a week, i slump down just so far and then i say: 'i'll go take a hot bath.' 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. the sun is always shining. even though clouds may come along and obscure the sun for awhile, the sun is always shining. the sun never stops shining. and even though the earth turns, and the sun appears to go down, it never stops shining. he felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not now where he ended and she began. i took us for better and i took us for worse / don't you ever forget it / now the steel bars between me and a promise / suddenly bend with ease / the closer i'm bound in love to you / the closer i am to free.