Famous Quotes Ipsum

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? i sincerely hope a new generation will stand up that says: let's develop our brains and not just our bodies. girls that will say to a christina aguilera: you think you're a strong woman because you show your red thong? get a grip and put on some clothes. when power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. when power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. when power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement. the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. 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. wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been. there are no mistakes, no coincidences. all events are blessings given to us to learn from. our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities, or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call coincidence. when the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles give under the strain, the climb seems endless, and suddenly nothing will go quite as you wish - it is then that you must not hesitate. enough! or too much. i love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. to conquer loneliness we shall each have to assume the sacred responsibility of becoming a complete person. and most of all, to define ourselves without always including someone else in the definition. it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative..

I think night-time is dark so you can imagine with less distraction. freedom lies in being bold. love is a great beautifier. i have not lived as a woman. i've lived as a man. i've just done what i damn well wanted to and i've made enough money to support myself and i ain't afraid of being alone. if a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as michelangelo painted, or beethoven composed music, or shakespeare composed poetry. he should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. it's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy. when you get into a tight place and it seems you can't go on, hold on, for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn. doing. what you'll discover will be wonderful. what you'll discover will be yourself. but to stand in the sun and melt into the wind? the choice may have been mistaken - the choosing was not. all humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual. 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. it's so sweet, i feel like my teeth are rotting when i listen to the radio. they took all the trees / and put them in a tree museum / and they charged all the people / a dollar and a half just to see 'em / don't it always seem to go / that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone / they paved paradise / and put up a parking lot footfalls echo in the memory / down the passage we did not take / towards the door we never opened / into the rose garden 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. no man's life is ordinary to himself. we are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams. 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. both my wife and daughter think i'm this gigantic loser and they're right.

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. change only takes place through action. 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. 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. to talk to each other is but a more animated and audible thinking. either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. any job a man can do to make his way in the world is a decent job as long as he works hard and does his best. god didn't put sweat on a man's body for no reason. he put it there so he could work hard, cleanse himself and feel proud. hard workin' folks only smell bad to some folks who have nothing better to do but stick their noses in the air. 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. no man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. 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. the cure for everything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea. 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. walter turned on the radio: electric violins wailing, twisted romance, the four-square beat of heart break. trite suffering, but suffering nonetheless. the entertainment business. what voyeurs we all have become. maybe that's not exactly how it happened. but that's the way it should have happened. and that's the way i like to remember it. i have the sense to recognize / that i don't know how to let you go everybody loves a hero / an image to create / the antithesis of everything / inside ourselves we hate / but you'd better close your eyes / when it's time for them to die / because you'd hate to think the life you'd built upon them was a lie it occurred to him that, for the first time since his birth, life had said yes to archie jones. not simply an 'ok' or 'you-might-as-well-carry-on-since-you've-started', but a resounding affirmative..