"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."
- Scott Adams
"At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important."
- M. C. Escher
"For me, a relationship without an artistic connection is like sex without chemistry: dull, flat and mechanical. And sex without chemistry is like bad art: forced strokes that inspire nothing but rolling eyes. Creative people are creative in every context, and sex is no exception. "
-Stephanie Sellars
"When the artists is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes and inventive, searching, daring, self-expressive creature. He becomes interesting to other people. He disturbs, upsets, enlightens, and opens ways for a better understanding. Where those who are not artists are trying to close the book , he opens it and shows that there are still more pages possible."
-Robert Henri
"Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. There is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up to discover what is already there."
- Henry Miller
"We photographers say that we take a picture and in a certain sense that is true. We take something from people's lives, but in doing so, we tell their story. In this case, I took a picture and others saw it, were moved and reached out to help the man. That is the best possible result."
-Steve McCurry
"A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know."
- Diane Arbus
"Art is a revolt against fate."
- André Malraux
"The photograph is completely abstracted from life, yet it looks like life. That is what has always excited me about photography."
- Richard Kalvar
"Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it."
- Confucius
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
"Happiness comes more from loving than being loved; and often when our affection seems wounded it is only our vanity bleeding. To love, and to be hurt often, and to love again - this is the brave and happy life."
- J. E. Buchrose
"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable."
- Aaron Copland
"What we play is life."
- Louis Armstrong
"Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow."
- James M. Barrie
"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."
- Walt Whitman
"I trust that everything happens for a reason, even when we're not wise enough to see it."
- Oprah Winfrey
"It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live."
- J. K. Rowling
"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit."
- e e cummings
"Why do we have to wait for special moments to say nice things or tell people we care about them?"
- Randy K. Milholland
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not a second rate version of someone else."
- Judy Garland
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
- Helen Keller
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."
- Mark Twain
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
- Aristotle
"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
- Barbara Hall
"Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you."
- Wally 'Famous' Amos
"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
- Carl Jung
"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth."
- Guatama Buddha
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
- Carol Burnett
"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
- Norman Vincent Peale
"It's the friends you can call up at four a.m. that matter."
- Marlene Dietrich
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
- Aristotle
"The mind is everything. What you think you become."
- Guatama Buddha
"Death may be the greatest of all human blessings."
- Socrates
"In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it."
- Randy K. Milholland
"It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be."
- J. K. Rowling
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
- Samuel Beckett
"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
- J. R. R. Tolkien
"In the end, you'll know which people really love you. They're the ones who see you for who you are and, no matter what, always find a way to be at your side."
- Randy K. Milholland
"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different."
- Coco Chanel
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You have to define your destiny in your own terms."
- K.W. Lee
"You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection."
- Guatama Buddha
"My night has become a sunny dawn because of you."
- Ibn Abbad
"I've learned that no one is perfect until you fall in love with them."
- Andy Rooney
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly."
- Sam Keen
"Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is."
- Gary Zukav
"Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Guatama Buddha
"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
- Marilyn Monroe
2008/03/21
"Love
Because of you, in gardens of blossoming flowers I ache from the
perfumes of spring.
I have forgotten your face, I no longer remember your hands;
how did your lips feel on mine?
Because of you, I love the white statues drowsing in the parks,
the white statues that have neither voice nor sight.
I have forgotten your voice, your happy voice; I have forgotten
your eyes.
Like a flower to its perfume, I am bound to my vague memory of
you. I live with pain that is like a wound; if you touch me, you will
do me irreparable harm.
Your caresses enfold me, like climbing vines on melancholy walls.
I have forgotten your love, yet I seem to glimpse you in every
window.
Because of you, the heady perfumes of summer pain me; because
of you, I again seek out the signs that precipitate desires: shooting
stars, falling objects."
- Pablo Neruda
"It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"When you want what you've never had, you must do what you've never done."
- Unknown
"Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak."
- Thomas Carlyle
"Writing will be your companion through the darkest and brightest days of your life — if that is what you want. It exposes pain and guilt and the greatest joy. It is your own assessment of who you are. You should write as much as you can and as much as you want to. It will be something to turn to."
- Proverb
"Want a thing long enough, and you don't."
- Proverb
2008/04/16
"To be nobody but yourself -in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you like everybody else- means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting."
- e.e. cummings
"Characters make their own plot. the dimensions of the characteristics determine the novel."
- Harper Lee
"I never make [my books]: they grow; they come to me and insist on being written."
- Samuel Butler
"The writer is an explorer. Every step is an advance into new land."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start, and you especially have to be hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt, use it - don't cheat with it."
- Ernest Hemingway
"A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket."
- Charles Peguy
"A writer should never be brief at the expense of being clear."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"Writers should use common words to say uncommon things."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"A writer can do nothing for men more necessary, satisfying, than to just simply reveal to them the infinite possibilities of their own souls."
- Walt Whitman
"Writing is a form of prayer."
- Frank Kafka
"Write while the heat is still in you!"
- Henry David Thoreau
"Childhood trauma and suffering does not provide us with an excuse for our problems. It explains the origins of our problems while in no way relieving us of the responsibility to understand and to improve ourselves. The point is not to blame the people in our past, but to use insight into our past to refocus on the good effects and to free ourselves from its harmful ones."
- Peter R. Breggin
"Like every writer, I am asked where my work originates, and if I knew I would go there more often to find more."
- Arthur Miller
"Everyone has his burden; what counts is how you carry it."
- "Kings Go Forth"
"Burdens shared are easier to bear."
- Jesse Jackson
"A dream is the (disguised) fulfillment of a (suppressed/repressed) wish."
- Sigmund Freud
"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable."
- Dave Tyson Gentry
"Your friend is the person who knows all about you, and still likes you."
- Elbert Hubbard
"One is not born a genius: one becomes a genius."
- Simone de Beauvoir
"A person's pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness leads to ruin. Pursue goodness and you will achieve great things."
- John E. Kramer
"I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally."
- WC Fields
"If your left leg was Easter, and your right leg was Christmas, would I be able to meet you in between the holidays?"
- Josh Longden
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can’t make me happy."
- Spike Milligan
"If one synchronized swimmer drowns, do all the rest have to drown too?"
- Steven Wright.
"Money can’t buy happiness, but neither can poverty."
- Leo Rosten
"Gravity is a habit that is hard to shake off."
- Terry Pratchett
"An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do."
- Dylan Thomas
"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly." - Langston Hughes
"The same day I got my diploma, someone dropped it off I guess, and my dad had also gone out for donuts. So, I looked on the counter and went: diploma, DONUTS." - John Mayer
"No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't." - Marilyn Monroe
"I always feel like a pirate." - Orlando Bloom
"There is no such thing as a plain woman. Every woman has attractive points, so accentuate your best assets." - Dita Von Teese
"Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.' - Andy Warhol
“Madonna really influenced how I wanted to look when I was growing up, and made me realize that I didn’t have to look like a blonde beach bunny or a Playboy model.” - Dita Von Teese
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-- Wm. Shakespeare
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that
procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain
The whole world is a tuxedo and you are a pair of brown shoes.
-- George Gobel
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a
creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely
a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the
bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.
Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact
that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth
to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the
very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more
afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by
an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam
as men who "didn't know what fear was," we ought always to add the flea--and
put him at the head of the procession.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
ROMEO: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much.
MERCUTIO: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide
as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve.
The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was no one on the other line. Once she said "God Bless you" I said, "I didn't sneeze" She looked deep into my eyes and said, "You will, eventually." And damn it if she wasn't right. Two days later I sneezed.
--Ellen DeGeneres
"Just a little case of mood poisoning... Must be something I hate."
-David Warner, Wild Palms
"The real problem is in the hearts and minds of men. It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
-Albert Einstein
"An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind."
-Buddha
"Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's the hardest thing in the world--to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want."
-Ayn Rand
"Nothing is evil which is according to nature."
-Marcus Aurelius
Worry is like a rocking chair--it gives you something to do but it doesn't get you anywhere.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
- Fran Lebowitz
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.
- Woody Allen
The idea of all-out nuclear war is unsettling.
- Walter Goodman
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.
- Edwin Schlossberg
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
- Frank Wilczek (1951 - )
When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
- Quintilian
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
- Ausonius
I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) [MY ******** HERO!!!!!! <3]
There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.
- Rebecca West (1892 - 1983)
I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
- Cato the Elder (234 BC - 149 BC)
About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.
- Herbert Hoover (1874 - 1964)
The main things which seem to me important on their own account, and not merely as means to other things, are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.
- George Santayana
When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody.
- W. S. Gilbert
Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.
- Barbara Tober
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again.
- Rick Polito
A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
- Robert M. Hamilton
I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to respect.
- George Burns
Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk
I think it would be a good idea.
- Mahatma Gandhi
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