Famous Quotes Ipsum

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. 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. the earth laughs in flowers. i preach there are all kinds of truths, your truth and somebody else's. but behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth. everything possible to be believed is an image of truth. seize the day. make your lives extraordinary. hope is a dangerous thing. drive a man insane. humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. there is more logic in humor than in anything else. because, you see, humor is truth. there is nothing like a kiss long and hot and down to your soul almost paralyzing you. if you press me to say why i loved him, i can say no more than because he was he, and i was i. insist upon yourself. be original. i used to think if you fell from grace it was more likely than not the result of one stupendous error, or else an unfortunate accident. i hadn't learned that it can happen so gradually you don't lose your stomach or hurt yourself in the landing. taken out of context / i must seem so strange how long till my soul gets it right / can any human being ever reach that kind of light?.

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 would rather be kicked with a foot than be overcome by a loud voice speaking cruel words. the truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless. this is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. it is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind-folded fear. true religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness. i'll pretend this is real / 'cause this is what i like best it's so sweet, i feel like my teeth are rotting when i listen to the radio. where there is great love there are always great miracles. there is one kind of laugh that i always did recommend; it looks out of the eye first with a merry twinkle, then it creeps down on its hands and knees and plays around the mouth like a pretty moth around the blaze of a candle, then it steals over into the dimples of the cheeks and rides around in those whirlpools for a while, then it lights up the whole face like the mellow bloom on a damask rose, then it swims up on the air, with a peal as clear and as happy as a dinner-bell, then it goes back again on gold tiptoes like an angel out for an airing, and it lies down on its little bed of violets in the heart where it came from. the only darkness is ignorance. women have been burnt as witches simply because they were beautiful. and i'm real if two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity. there is a certain poetry and mystery about what the sea washes up. the course of true love never did run smooth. the hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. no need to hurry. no need to sparkle. no need to be anything but oneself. if a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. think up something appropriate and do it. one cannot live well, love well, or sleep well unless one has dined well. i will tell you that there have been no failures in my life. i don't want to sound like some metaphysical queen, but there have been no failures. there have been some tremendous lessons. intolerance promotes isolation. tolerance lets you grow. intolerance makes judgements. tolerance preserves independence. intolerance locks people out. tolerance finds a way to keep doors open. intolerance locks you up. tolerance strengthens bonds. intolerance demands conformity. tolerance respects differences. intolerance seals doors. tolerance lets people in. i married the first man i ever kissed. when i tell this to my children they just about throw up. if you stare at someone long enough, you start to see their humanity. the family. we were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together. lusa sat still and marveled: this is how moths speak to each other. they tell their love across the fields by scent. there is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he's not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark. for several more minutes her hands lay motionless on her book while she considered a language that could carry nothing but love and simple truth. <b>annie:</b> now that was when people knew how to be in love. they knew it! time, distance...nothing could separate them because they knew. it was right. it was real. it was... <b>becky:</b> a movie! that's your problem! you don't want to be in love. you want to be in love in a movie. books are a uniquely portable magic..

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. i must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul. it is curious how silly, trivial things, sometimes for no apparent reason, become significant. at first you laugh at these things, you think they are of no importance, you go on and you feel that you haven't got the strength to stop yourself... and so it seems to me that if i die, i shall take part in life one way or another. penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. but there it sits, nevertheless, licking its chops. i like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do. i think i met my match again/ passing round the candle light / in the center of this blizzard / you stood and melted all the ice the hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. kiss me, and you will see how important i am. freedom is what you do with what's been done to you. when will you understand that being normal isn't necessarily a virtue? it rather denotes a lack of courage. it is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys. let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. 'right. yes. the usual choices.'.