Famous Quotes Ipsum

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. the engine that gives its mysterious inner life to a work of art must be the subterranean expression of a wish, working its way to the surface of a narrative. nothing strengthens the judgement and quickens the conscience like individual responsibility. think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy. poetry does not necessarily have to be beautiful to stick in the depths of our memory. a day is a miniature eternity. if you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning ''good morning'' at total strangers. 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. her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin. nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous. one of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action. 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. finish each day and be done with it. you have done what you could. some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. start by doing what's necessary, then what's possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. give me a museum and i'll fill it. hollywood is a place where they'll pay you 50,000 dollars for a kiss and 50 cents for your soul. you can't help respecting anybody who can spell tuesday, even if he doesn't spell it right. 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. perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. 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. to live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable and wealthy, not rich; to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly; to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart; to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never; to let the spiritual, unbidden, and unconscious grow up through the common. this is to be my symphony. the unexamined life is not worth living. there are two ways to live your life, one is as though nothing is a miracle. the other is as though everything is a miracle..

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. there are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. i know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. they wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. the search for truth is more precious than its possession. truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. the whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not. we are governed not by armies and police but by ideas. in a cruel and imperfect world, she was living proof that god could still create perfection. music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to men is felt to be so divine. it brings us nearer to the infinite. you'll remember me like a melody / yeah, i'll haunt the world inside you you're all i notice in a crowded room. a pain stabbed my heart as it did every time i saw a girl i loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. loneliness is the first thing which god's eye named, not good..

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. and so i choose to go with you / as if the choice were mine to make the very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself. my piano is a universe. those eighty-eight keys arrange the seven planets in musical scales, an aural cosmos..