Famous Quotes Ipsum

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. the stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. the one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy. power consists.... in deciding which stories will be told. 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. in languages that form the word 'compassion' not from the root 'suffering' but from the root 'feeling', the word is used in approximately the same way, but to contend that it designates a bad or inferior sentiment is difficult. the secret strength of its etymology floods the word with another light and gives it a broader meaning: to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with others' misfortune but also able to feel with him any emotion - joy, anxiety, happiness, pain. this kind of compassion therefore signifies the maximal capacity of affective imaginations, the art of emotional telepathy. in the hierarchy of sentiments, then, it is supreme. when i dare to be powerful / to use my strength / in the service of my vision / then it becomes / less and less important / whether i am afraid. watching a peaceful death of a human being reminds us of a falling star; one of a million lights in a vast sky that flares up for a brief moment only to disappear into the endless night forever. 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. the real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes - but of having new eyes. i glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all..

The change of life comes when you meet yourself at a crossroads and you decide whether to be honest or not before you die. if the truth were to be known, everyone would be wearing a scarlet letter of one form or another. drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you. be still and know that i am god. i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best.

. Security is mostly a superstition. it does not exist in nature...life is either a daring adventure or nothing. 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. i could lay here and read all night. i am not able to fall asleep without reading. you have that time when your brain has nothing constructive to do so it rambles. i fool my brain out of that by making it read until it shuts off. i just think it's best to do something right up until you fall asleep. personally, i would sooner have written alice in wonderland than the whole encyclopedia britannica. it seems that whatever goes into my mouth makes me fat, just as whatever comes out of it embarrasses me. the greatest complexity is the greatest simplicity. the more "complex" a system is, the more simple is its design. indeed, it is utterly elegant in its simplicity. the master understands this. that is why a highly evolved being lives in utter simplicity. who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught tangled in a woman's body? her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin. a new position of responsibility will usually show a man to be a far stronger creature than was supposed. that's the way things come clear. all of a sudden. and then you realize how obvious they've been all along. destiny is not what is already made; destiny is what we are making. many people think that we are in the hands of destiny, driven in whatever direction life desires or wills, but really, we are the masters of our destiny, especially from the moment we realize this fact. man is responsible for his rise and fall. if i can stop one heart from breaking, i will not live in vain. 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. keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadows. 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. i say to mankind, be not curious about god. for i, who am curious about each, am not curious about god - i hear and behold god in every object, yet understand god not in the least. 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. unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. in memory, everything seems to happen to music. these things seem small and indistinguishable, like far-off mountains turned into clouds. the flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all. 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 a memory without a blot of contamination must be an exquisite treasure, an inexhaustible source of pure refreshment it is beautiful that our lives coincided for so long. watching stars without you, my soul cries we are each of us angels with only one wing. and we can only fly embracing each other. to live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else. all sanity is great madness, but the greatest madness of all is to live life the way it is, rather than as it should be. i live my life in widening rings..