"You are the best. You are the worst. You are average. Your love is a part of you. You try to give it away because you cannot bear its radiance, but you cannot separate it from yourself. To understand your fellow humans, you must understand why you give them your love. You must realize that hate is but a crime-ridden subdivision of love. You must reclaim what you never lost. You must take leave of your sanity, and yet be fully responsible for your actions."
~ Gnarls Barkley, in a letter to the legendary rock critic Lester Bangs
"Say what you think, love who you love, 'cause you just get so many trips round the sun, yeah you only - only live once."
~ Kacey Musgraves, "Follow Your Arrow"
"Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?"
~ Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy |
"Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth."
~ 1 John 3:18 (my first quote from a bible!!! OMG! literally!)
"We always did feel the same, we just saw it from a different point of view."
~ Bob Dylan, Tangled Up In Blue
"He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who has enjoyed the trust of pure women, the respect of intelligent men and the love of little children; who has filled his niche and accomplished his task; who has left the world better than he found it, whether an improved poppy, a perfect poem, or a rescued soul; who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had; whose life was an inspiration; whose memory a benediction."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
(here's an interesting article about the quotation)
(here's an interesting article about the quotation)
"The things we create to make ourselves safe end up imprisoning us."
~ James L. Brooks from The Making of As Good As It Gets | |||
"The most seductive words in the English language: 'I'd like to hear your story.'"
~ Old journalism adage
"Time must untangle this, not I. 'Tis too hard a knot for me to untie."
~ William Shakespeare, Twelfth night
"We never forgive a friend or foe who betrays us, yet we do not resent betraying ourselves."
~ La duc de Rochefoucald
"She's got everything she needs, she's an artist, she don't look back."
~ Bob Dylan, She Belongs To Me |
"People throwing themselves at people is like the basis of civilization."
~ Rayanne from My So Called Life |
"Mama was funny, Mama was fun. Mama spent money when she had none. Mama said, 'Darling, don't make such a drama. A little less thinking, a little more feeling.' I'm just quoting Mama."
~ Stephen Sondheim, Sunday in the Park with George
"Love: shall we deny it when it visits us? Shall we not take what we are given? There is only this: all else is unreal."
~ John Smith in The New World
"It must be said frankly this life of ours is idiotic."
~ Lophain in The Cherry Orchard, Anton Chekov |
"I will have poetry in my life...and adventure...and love...love, above all. Not the artful postures of love, but love that overthrows life: unbendable, ungovernable, like a riot in the heart and nothing to be done come ruin or rapture. Love like there has never been in a play. I will have love or I will end my days as a..."
~ from Shakespeare in Love, by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard |
"I would like to achieve a state of spiritual grace from which I could function and give as I was meant to in the eye of god."
~ Anne morrow Lindbergh, Gift From The Sea |
"I want to thank Marcia for being the woman who lights my soul on fire every morning."
| ~ Robin Williams Oscar acceptance speech |
"I have great belief in the fact that whenever there is chaos, it creates wonderful things."
| ~ Septima Poinsette Clark |
"I followed all the rules...man's and God's and you - you followed none of them and they all loved you."
~ Alfred to Tristan in Legends of the Fall |
"He finds amusement and occupation in a manner all his own, and evidently possesses all he needs within himself."
~ from Fairies at Work and Play
"Always stick with people who know they are flawed and ridiculous."
~ Dr. Widget, from Olivia Joules And The Overactive Imagination, Helen Fielding |
"All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can’t be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher, Proverbs from Plymouth
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
-Marianne Willaimson (thanks, navan) :)
The Van Gogh Influence
"Tell me Beatrice
what would you do
If I cut off my ear for you
And to this letter attached it?
You'd write me back for the one that matched it."
- Shel Silverstein
"If I told you that I loved you, would you take it the wrong way?"
- from that movie Foxfire, which I thought was totally the coolest thing when it came out.
"After nearly a year, I've figured out that it's not me, exactly, who touches people, it's what I represent:
...the possibility that dreams from long ago may still come true, even they look lost forever. That kind of hope is important to the human spirit, more important than I'd realized before I started meeting strangers who wanted only to shake my hand and tell me 'good going.'"
~ Jim Morris, The Oldest Rookie
~ Jim Morris, The Oldest Rookie
"We are the music makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams."
- Arthur O'Shaugnessey (also Willy Wonka)
"The nicest thing about being happy is that you feel like you'll never be unhappy again."
- from Kiss of the Spider Woman
The Irony of Commitment
“The Irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of your internal critic, from the fear that likes to dress itself up and parade around as rational hesitation. To commit is to remove your head as the barrier to your life.”
- Anne Morriss, Starbucks customer from New York City
- Anne Morriss, Starbucks customer from New York City
"Success:
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 endure 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 a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!"
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.”
- Henry Miller, “Reflections on Writing”
”If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can’t be mortal, at least we can avoid being vulgar."
- Langdon Mitchell, The New York Idea
”We have to laugh. Because laughter, we already know, is the first evidence of freedom.”
- Rosario Castellanos, from if not poetry, then what?
Olivia Joules Rules for Living:
"No one is thinking about you. They're thinking about themselves, just like you."
"Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems."
"The key to success is how you pick yourself up from failure."
"Be honest and kind".
"Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance".
"Trust your instincts, not your imagination."
"Don't expect the world to be safe or life to be fair."
"Sometimes you have to go with the flow."
"Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that culd have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past."
"It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like"
"Hardly anything matters: if you get upset, ask yourself, "Does it really matter?"
- from Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
"Nothing is either as bad or as good as it seems."
"The key to success is how you pick yourself up from failure."
"Be honest and kind".
"Only buy clothes that make you feel like doing a small dance".
"Trust your instincts, not your imagination."
"Don't expect the world to be safe or life to be fair."
"Sometimes you have to go with the flow."
"Don't regret anything. Remember there wasn't anything else that culd have happened, given who you were and the state of the world at that moment. The only thing you can change is the present, so learn from the past."
"It is better to buy one expensive thing that you really like than several cheap ones that you only quite like"
"Hardly anything matters: if you get upset, ask yourself, "Does it really matter?"
- from Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination by Helen Fielding
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