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"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man."
"There was clearly felt the presence of a force not bound to be kind to man. It was a place for heathenism and superstitious rites, to be inhabited by men nearer of kin to the rocks and to wild animals than we."
"Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some."
"A good heart will, at all times, betray the best head in the world."
"Have you ever noticed that there are people who do things which are most indelicate, and yet at the same time — beautiful?"
"Life’s splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though, not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come."
"There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don’t work."
"I am rooted. But I flow."
"Move as a total being, and accept things. Just for twenty-four hours, try it - total acceptance, whatsoever happens. Someone insults you, accept it; dont react, and see what happens. Suddenly you will feel an energy flowing in you that you have not felt before."
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
"He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words."
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars."
"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
"Don’t make stuff because you want to make money, it will never make you enough money, and don’t make stuff because you want to get famous because you will never feel famous enough. Make gifts for people, and work hard on making those gifts in the hope that those people will notice and like the gifts. Maybe they will notice how hard you worked and maybe they won’t, and if they don’t notice I know it’s frustrating, but ultimately that doesn’t change anything because your responsibility is not to the people you’re making gift for but to the gift itself."
"May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art - write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. May your coming year be a wonderful thing in which you dream both dangerously and outrageously. I hope it’ll make something that didn’t exist before you made it, that you will be loved and you will be liked and you will have people to love and to like in return. And most importantly, because I think there should be more kindness and more wisdom in the world right now - I hope that you will, when you need to be, be wise and that you will always be kind. And I hope that somewhere in the next year you surprise yourself."
"It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels, the primitive vigor of Nature in us, that inspires that dream."
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."
"Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future."
"He is not poor, for he does not want riches."
"Pay attention to that unchanging part of yourself. It is perfect. At the source of life, and only there, one finds peace, harmony, and the undisturbed contentment of bliss."
"I am the handle of your hoe, the door of your homestead, the wood of your cradle, and the shell of your coffin."
"I leave you my portrait so that you will have my presence all the days and nights that I am away from you."
"It's not what you are that holds you back, it's what you think you are

not."

Denis Waitley

"…say a prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages."
"It doesn’t interest me how old you are. I want to know if you will risk looking like a fool for love, for your dream, for the adventure of being alive."
"Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds."
"The most sophisticated people I know - inside they are all children."
"Honor the sacred. Honor the Earth, our Mother. Honor the Elders. Honor all with whom we share the Earth: Four-leggeds, two-leggeds, winged ones, swimmers, crawlers, plant and rock people. Walk in balance and beauty."
"Being born into this world is God telling us, "It's time for you to explore, be lost, and search." Passing just means we’ve finally found what we were looking for."
"Be brave, don't shave."
"Sometimes I’m terrified of my heart; of its constant hunger for whatever it is it wants. The way it stops and starts."
"There is a wolf in me…I keep the wolf because the wilderness gave it to me, and the wilderness will not let it go."
"Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
"Never are voices so beautiful as on a winter’s evening, when dusk almost hides the body, and they seem to issue from nothingness with a note of intimacy seldom heard by day."
"It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them."
"Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night."
"I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights."
"I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to."
"We do not inherit the land from our forefathers. We borrow it from our children."
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."
"Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than what you are doing here. Believe in kissing."
"I want you guys to put your arms around each other. Now look at that person you have your arm around, look at them. These are the kids you grew up with, these are the kids you’re going to fucking get old with, these are the guys that would fight for you, these are the kids who have had your back since day mother fucking one. Together, we are a fucking family. I want you guys to look out for each other when you guys see each other on the streets or when you see each other at shows. These are your fucking brothers and your sisters."
"My point is, father, that I believe we create our own demons in our own minds."
"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."
"I'm more of a man you'll ever be and more of a woman you'll ever get!"
"From my rotting body, flowers shall grow, and I am in them, and that is eternity."
"How many things I don’t need!"
"He would lead us on long, killer runs, as far and as fast as we could go, down strange roads, through the woods, whatever. The whole idea was to lose our bearings, to push ourselves into unknown territory. Then we'd run at a slightly slower pace until we found a road we recognized, and race home again at full speed. In a certain sense, that's how Chris lived his entire life."
"Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested."
"Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
"I want movement and not a calm course of existence. I want excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I feel in myself a superabundance of energy which finds no outlet in a quiet life."
"Gilgamesh, what you seek you will never find. For when the Gods created Man they let death be his lot, eternal life they withheld. Let your every day be full of joy, love the child that holds your hand, let your wife delight in your embrace, for these alone are the concerns of humanity."
"I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet."
"Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die."
"Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea."
"Expectation is the root of all heartache."
"Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary."
"Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy."
"I realize that long hours of reading are not for every one but I have never ceased to be grateful that they are for me."
"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, to think quietly, talk gently, act frankly... to listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open heart; await occasions, hurry never... this is my symphony."
"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."
"Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."
"Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present."
"Don't take anything personally. Nothings others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions of others, you won't be the victim of needless suffering."
"He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at."
"I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams — like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves. Each man’s life represents the road toward himself, and attempt at such a road, the intimation of a path. No man has ever been entirely and completely himself. Yet each one strives to become that — one in an awkward, the other in a more intelligent way, each as best he can."
"Before you speak, ask yourself: Is it kind, is it true, is it necessary, does it improve upon the silence?"
"To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."

mar 7 2011 ∞
jan 4 2016 +