Quotes

“You are not your past. You are not the sum total of your scars.  You are couragous and strong. You are a survivor.” from this –> http://ny-image0.etsy.com//il_fullxfull.80890472.jpg

Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for
money.

- Louis Untermeyer

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~Charles Darwin~

Once you become predictable, no one’s interested anymore. –Chet Atkins

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.  ~W. Somerset Maugham, A Writer’s Notebook, 1949

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are
in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your
character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your
integrity is your destiny — it is the light that guides your way.

- Heraclitus

That which you call your soul or spirit is your conciousness, and that which you
call ‘free will’ is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have,
your only freedom, the choice that controls all the choices you make and
determines your life and your character.

- Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged”

“The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief.
Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new
joys wait to fill the void.

- Pam Brown

“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is.” ~Vladimir Nabokov

“I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one’s personal truth.”  ~Vladimir Nabokov~

“Come to me in the silence of the night,
Come to me in the speaking silence of a dream.
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright as sunlight on a stream.
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.”
~Christina Rossetti

“He who fights monsters should see to it that he does not become a monster in the process. And when you stare persistantly into an abyss, the abyss also stares into you. “  ~Frierich Nietzsche

“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those that find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself” Andre Gide

“Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person’s body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.”

– Ariel Dorfman
Novelist, playwright and essayist.

“An honest heart is a kingdom in itself.”  (Seneca)

“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through. It is potential liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death”

~R.D. Laing~

Veritas vos liberabit

Vincit omnia veritas  

‘What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?‘
Vincent Van Gogh

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

- Franz Kafka, “Aphorisms (1918)”

“May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.”

~Delmore Schwartz ~

…and you could have it all, my empire of dirt. I will let you down, I will make you hurt…” Hurt ~Trent Reznor~ ♥

”Your memory is a monster; you forget- it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory, but it has you!” -John Irving.

“Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without, and know we cannot live within.”  James Baldwin

“Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation.  It is of the great facts of the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark waterof that silver shell we call the moon.”  ~Oscar Wilde~