TRUE COURAGE is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. JEREMY COLLIER 1650-1726
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT IS JOY. W.B.YEATS
IT IS IDEAS, as form, that constitute great works that are worthy of immortality–ideas as form not as substance. in art everything is form and everything includes ideas. FERNANDO PESSOA
HUMOR IS BY FAR the most significant activity of the human brain.
Edward De Bono
ANTONIO TABUCCHI 1943-2012. “INDIAN NOCTURNE”.
DOUBTS ARE LIKE STAINS ON A SHIRT. I like shirts with stains, because when I’m given a shirt that’s too clean, one that’s completely white, I immediately start having doubts. It’s the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
PHILOSOPHY appears to concern itself only with the truth, but perhaps expresses only fantasies, while literature appears to concern itself only with fantasies, but perhaps it expresses the truth.
THERE ARE some fundamental values it’s impossible to be wrong about.
DEMOCRACY isn’t a state of perfection. It has to be improved and that means constant vigilance.
PERSONALLY I don’t trust literature that soothes people’s consciences.
I’VE ALWAYS BEEN DRAWN TO TORMENTED PEOPLE FULL OF CONTRADICTIONS.
I DON’T go for people who lead full and satisfying lives.
THE SALT OF ANY INTERESTING CIVILIZATION IS MIXTURE.
JIM HENSON 1936-1990 “THE MUPPETS”
LIFE’S LIKE A MOVIE, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending. We’ve done just what we set out to do. Thanks to the lovers, the dreamers and you.
WATCH OUT FOR EACH OTHER. LOVE everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Yyour sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth and most especially your heart.
IF you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.
PLEASE watch out for each other and love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it.
I’VE ALWAYS TRIED to present a positive view of the world in my work. It’s so much easier to be negative and cynical and predict doom for the world than it is to try and figure out how to make things better. We have an obligation to do the latter.
THE ATTITUDE you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.
THE ONLY WAY THE MAGIC WORKS is by hard work. But hard work can be fun.
THE MOST SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE I KNOW. — INSIDE THEY ARE ALL CHILDREN.
WHEN I WAS YOUNG, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
FOLLOW YOUR ENTHUSIASM. It’s something I’ve always believed in. Find those parts of your life you enjoy the most. Do what you enjoy doing.
AS CHILDREN, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy and for some of us that world of make believe continues into adulthood.
ALL OF A SUDDEN you realize that you are the person who has control of your life.
I BELIEVE that we form our own lives, that we create our own reality and that everything works out for the best.
CERTAINLY I’ve lived my whole life through my imagination. But the world of imagination is there for all of us — a sense of play, of pretending, of wonder. It’s there with us as we live.
YES, ITS ONE OF THE BASIC TRUTHS OF THE UNIVERSE . . . THINGS DON’T DISAPPEAR. THEY JUST CHANGE AND CHANGE AND CHANGE AGAIN.
TAKE WHAT YOU GOT AND FLY WITH IT.
I KNOW I drive some people crazy with what seems like ridiculous optimism, but it has always worked for me.
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD 1896-1940 “The Great Gatsby”.
TO BE KIND is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL FOR THE WAY SHE THOUGHT. She was beautiful for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul. She is beautiful.
FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
THE WORLD ONLY EXISTS IN YOUR EYES. YOU CAN MAKE IT AS BIG OR AS SMALL AS YOU WANT.
AND IN THE END, we were all just humans . . . Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.
NEVER CONFUSE A SINGLE DEFEAT WITH A FINAL DEFEAT.
INTELLIGENCE IS MEASURED BY A PERSON’S ABILITY TO SEE VALIDLY WITHIN BOTH SIDES OF CONTRADICTING ARGUMENTS.
BEFORE YOU criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
FORGOTTEN IS FORGIVEN.
ONE should be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the implausable, often the ‘impossible,’ come true.
IT was only a sunny smile and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
AT eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
LIFE IS ESSENTIALLY A CHEAT and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.
THERE ARE all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.
EXPERIENCE IS THE NAME SO MANY PEOPLE GIVE TO THEIR MISTAKES.
I NEVER BLAME FAILURE — there are too many complicated situations in life — but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort.
WE ALL HAVE SOULS OF DIFFERENT AGES.
WELL, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.
THE GREATEST PROFOUND PAIN is caused by, and the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.
LIFE STARTS ALL OVER AGAIN WHEN IT GETS CRISP IN THE FALL.
A WOMAN should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.
TOO much of anything is bad, but too much champagne is just right.
NEVER CONFUSE ACTIVITY WITH ACTION.
HER PHILOSOPHY is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others.
HAPPINESS IS THE RELIEF AFTER EXTREME TENSION.
DON’T FORGET WHO YOU ARE AND WHERE YOU COME FROM.
HAVING ONCE FOUND THE INTENSITY OF ART, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process.
IT IS NOT LIFE that’s complicated, it’s the struggle to guide and control life.
LIFE IS A COMEDY for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
MOSTLY, WE AUTHORS MUST REPEAT OURSELVES — THAT THE TRUTH.
FLORENCE SCOVEL SHINN 1871-1940. “The Game of Life & How to Play It”. “Secret Door toSuccess” “Your Word is Your Wand”.
THE GAME OF LIFE is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS, and in the twinkling of an eye, all your conditions change. Your word is a world of crystallized ideas, crystallized words. Sooner or later, you reap the fruits of your words and thoughts.
GRATITUDE is the law of increase & complaint is the law of decrease.
ALL THAT IS MINE BY DIVINE RIGHT is now released and reaches me in great avalanches of abundance, under grace in miraculous ways.
TODAY is a day of completion; I give thanks for this perfect day, miracle shall follow miracle and wonders shall never cease.
WHEN one has made his demands upon the universal, he must be ready for surprises. Everything may seem to be going wrong, when in reality, it is going right.
YOUR WORD IS YOUR WAND. The words you speak create your own destiny.
THE FIRST START TOWARD SUCCESS IS TO BE GLAD YOU ARE YOURSELF.
INFINITE SPIRIT, open the way for my great abundance. I am an irresistible magnet for all that belongs to me by Divine Right.
NO MAN IS YOUR ENEMY, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher.
I DO NOT LIMIT GOD by seeing limitations in myself. with God and myself all things are possible.
MY GOOD now flows to me in a steady, unbroken, ever-increasing stream of success, happiness and abundance.
UNEXPECTED DOORS FLY OPEN, unexpected channels are free and endless avalanches of abundance are poured out upon me, under grace in perfect ways.
IF YOU DO NOT run your subconscious mind yourself, someone else will run it for you.
EVERY GREAT WORK, every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.
MAN CAN ONLY RECEIVE WHAT HE SEES HIMSELF RECEIVING.
UNFORGIVENESS is the most prolific cause of disease. It will harden arteries or liver, and affect the eye sight. In its train are endless ills.
INTUITION is a spiritual faculty and does not explain, but simply points the way.
GIVING OPENS THE WAY FOR RECEIVING.