CORMAC McCARTHY. 1933-2023 “THE BORDER TRILOGY”
I’VE SEEN THE MEANNESS OF HUMANS TILL I DON’T KNOW WHY GOD AIN’T PUT OUT THE SUN AND GONE AWAY.
THE WORLD IS QUITE RUTHLESS in selecting between the dream and the reality even when we will not.
SCARED MONEY CAN’T WIN AND A WORRIED MAN CAN’T LOVE.
EVERY STEP YOU TAKE IS FOREVER.
WHEN YOU DIE it’s the same as if everybody else did too.
LIFE IS A MEMORY AND THEN IT IS NOTHING.
NOBODY WANTS TO BE HERE AND NOBODY WANTS TO LEAVE.
PETRARCH 1304-1374. “Canzoniere” “Petrarch’s rediscovery of Cicero’s letters is often credited with initiating the 14th-century renaissance and the founding of renaissance humanism”
THE AGED LOVE what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
OFTEN I HAVE WONDERED with much curiosity as to our coming into this world and what will follow our departure.
SUSPICION is the cancer of friendship.
MAN HAS NO GREATER ENEMY THAN HIMSELF.
BOOKS have led some to learning and some to madness.
RARELY DO GREAT BEAUTY & GREAT VIRTUE DWELL TOGETHER.
LOVE is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good.
A SHORT CUT TO RICHES is to subtract from our desires.
NATALIE WOOD 1938-1981 “Rebel Without A Cause”
WE WERE DESCENDED FROM ROYALTY.
I’VE BEEN TERRIFIED OF WATER, and yet it seems I’m forced to go into it on every movie I make.
AT NIGHT, when the sky is full of stars and the sea is still you get the wonderful sensation that you are floating in space.
ALMOST EVERY GIRL falls in love with the wrong man, I suppose it’s part of growing up.
WE ALL WANTED TO COPY VIVIEN LEIGH.
I DIDN’T KNOW WHO THE HELL I WAS. I was whoever they wanted me to be.
CARLOS SANTANA 1947—“Santana”. musician
IF YOU CARRY JOY IN YOUR HEART, YOU CAN HEAL ANY MOMENT.
THE MOST VALUABLE POSSESSION you can own is an open heart. the most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
JUST AS WE HAVE TWO EYES AND TWO FEET, DUALITY IS PART OF LIFE.
THERE’S never one sunrise the same or one sunset the same.
YOUR MIND IS A MAGNET. You don’t attract what you need or what you want; you attract who you are. And I love who I am!
MOST PEOPLE ARE PRISONERS, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
I’M LAUGHING because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
EVERYBODY sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
THERE IS NO PERSON that love cannot heal; there is no soul that love cannot save.
I KNUCKLE DOWN WITH MY DEMONS, AND WITH MY WEAKNESSES.
MY JOB IN THIS LIFE is to give people spiritual ecstasy through music. in my concerts people cry, laugh, dance. if they climaxed spiritually, I did my job. I did it decently and honestly.
SOME SONGS are just like tattoos for your brain . . . you hear them and they’re affixed to you.
I REALIZED a along time ago that instrumental music speaks a lot more clearly than English, Spanish, Yiddish, Swahili or any other language. Pure melody goes outside time.
STAY IN YOUR HEART.
I need courage to be confident. (LD)