THERE IS A LIGHT IN THIS WORLD,
A HEALING SPIRIT MORE POWERFUL
THAN ANY DARKNESS WE MAY
ENCOUNTER. WE SOMETIMES
LOSE SIGHT OF THIS FORCE WHEN
THERE IS SUFFERING, TOO MUCH PAIN.
THEN SUDDENLY,
THE SPIRIT WILL EMERGE THROUGH
THE LIVES OF ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO
HEAR A CALL AND ANSWER IN
EXTRAORDINARY WAYS.
MOTHER TERESA
PABLO NERUDA
YOU START DYING SLOWLY
IF YOU DO NOT TRAVEL,
IF YOU DO NOT READ,
IF YOU DO NOT LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS OF LIFE,
IF YOU DO NOT APPRECIATE YOURSELF.
WHAT IS TO GIVE LIGHT MUST ENDURE BURNING. VIKTOR FRANKL
WHEN you can laugh at yourself no one can ever make a fool of you.
JOAN RIVERS
ALL THE WORLD LOVES A CLOWN. COLE PORTER
THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN is the best way to save the environment.
E. O. WILSON
IMAGINE YOUR MIND AS A GARDEN
AND THOUGHTS AS THE SEEDS YOU
PLANT. HABITUAL NEGATIVE,
UNHEALTHY, SELF-CRITICAL THOUGHTS
PRODUCE THE WEEDS AND THISTLES OF
DEPRESSION, DISCONTENT AND
ANXIETY IN THE GARDEN OF YOUR
MIND. LUCKILY THE OPPOSITE IS ALSO
TRUE. CONSISTENTLY PLANTING
POSITIVE, HEALTHY, CONSTRUCTIVE
THOUGHTS WILL YIELD A CROP OF
BEAUTIFUL FEELINGS SUCH AS
GRATITUDE, LOVE AND JOY. Sue Thoele
GOD chooses not to be a judge of mankind but to be
a fellow sufferer and he will one day end suffering
for everyone not just a select few.
I am convinced that God is with those who suffer violence
and injustice and he is on their side.
He is not the general director of the theater he is in the play.
JURGEN MOLTMANN-THEOLOGIAN-1926-2024—“THEOLOGY OF HOPE”———-
BIG MOVIE DIRECTORS ARE THE MODERN MAD KINGS. PAULINE KAEL
HUMAN ERROR & venality are everywhere, churches are imperfect, cruelty is common, power corrupt, the weak go to the wall. ZADIE SMITH “The Fraud”
I think dogs are the most amazing
creatures; they give
unconditional love, for me they
are the role model for being alive. GILDA RADNER
FEAR CAN BE OVERCOME ONLY BY FAITH. GRANTLY DICK-READ
EYES are the greatest tool in film. Mr. Capra taught me that. Sure, it’s nice to say very got dialogue, if you an get it. BARBARA STANWYCK
PERSPICACITY: AN ABILITY to notice & understand things that are difficult or not obvious.
FOR THINGS TO
REVEAL THEMSELVES
TO US, WE NEED TO BE
READY TO ABANDON
OUR VIEWS ABOUT
THEM.
THICH NHAT HANH
I DON’T want to complain about what wasn’t or worry about what will happen. For the time I have left I will simply love life as I have done to this day.
JUDI DENCH
ONLY A SPIRITUAL BEING HAS AWARENESS. CHICK COREA
THE STRONGEST ARE THOSE
WHO RENOUNCE THEIR OWN
TIMES AND BECOME A LIVING
PART OF THOSE YET TO COME.
THE STRONGEST AND THE RAREST. MILOVAN DJILAS
IT’S A GLIMER OF HOPE IN AN OTHERWISE GRIM WORLD.
MATT CHARPENTIER
REPOSE WITHIN — REPOSE WITHOUT. SHAMBHU HEART
KINDNESS HEALS PEOPLE’S HEARTS.
YOU are not separate
From the whole.
You are one with
the sun, the earth,
The air. You don’t
have a life. You
are life.
ECKHART TOLLE
YELLOW WOLF: Lost 8 of 9 children. I am glad we get along so well. It is the way I have been with everyone who treats me right. I like good people.
WILLIAM STYRON 1925-2006–“Sophies Choice””Darkness Visible””Depression”.
THE GOOD WRITING of any age has always been the product of someone’s neurosis. We’d have a might dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads.
READING — THE BEST STATE YET TO KEEP ABSOLUTE LONELINESS AT BAY.
MOST BOOKS, like their authors are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live and their influence live forever.
We came forth and beheld the stars.
MYSTERIOUSLY and in ways that are totally remote from natural experience the gray drizzle of horror induced by depression takes on the quality of physical pain.
THE WRITER’S DUTY IS TO KEEP ON WRITING.
WRITING is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats . . . for jittery people.
LET’S FACE IT — WRITING IS HELL.
A GREAT BOOK should leave you with many experiences & slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
LET YOUR LOVE FLOW OUT ON ALL LIVING THINGS.
IN THE ABSENCE OF HOPE we must still struggle to survive and so we do by the skin of our teeth.
THE PAIN IS UNRELENTING; one does not abandon, even briefly, one’s bed of nails but is attached to it wherever one goes.
IT IS HOPELESSNESS EVEN MORE THAN PAIN THAT CRUSHES THE SOUL.
WRITING IS A FORM OF SELF-FLAGALLATION.
WE EACH DEVISE OUR MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM THE INTOLERABLE.
WRITERS ever since writing began have had problems & the main problem narrows down to just one word — LIFE
WHICH IS WORSE — PAST OR FUTURE? NEITHER. I will fold up my mind like a leaf and drift on this stream over the brink.