January 2010
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
– Jack Kerouac
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her...”
– Elie Wiesel
“True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“Every single moment of a person’s life, both of the understanding and of...”
– Emanuel Swedenborg
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of...”
– Helen Keller
Human life requires three basic necessities: food, shelter and love. Only when all three are guaranteed can civilization flourish. But civilization is gone now, and he knows not where. He doesn’t know if they reached too high and burned their hands on the stars or if all has yet to begin, and the good lord in heaven created all the wide wild of the world and simply forgot to let there be light....
“The aspiring writer must not merely be persistent, but relentless. If you are...”
– Jacob M. Appel
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas...”
– Neil Gaiman
“All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.”
– Jack Kerouac
the year so far
has been…let’s say interesting. Late last year I injured my back at work, and have spent the better part of the past few weeks chasing up insurance claims, lost time pay and treatment (which has been the most awesome part). I finished Spring and sent it off to Random House (where, I am told, it is sitting on the publisher’s desk while she clears her first work of the year out of...
“You cannot depend upon anybody. There is no guide, no teacher, no authority....”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much...”
– Oprah Winfrey
“If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must...”
– J. Krishnamurti
“Don’t judge a man by the tales of others.”
– G. I. Gurdjieff
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can...”
– Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand
“To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the...”
– Anthony Burgess
“Only help him who is not an idler.”
– G. I. Gurdjieff
“True ease in writing comes from art, not chance. As those move easiest who have...”
– Alexander Pope
“Life on earth is a hand-to-hand mortal combat… between the law of love and...”
– Jose Marti
“Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via chriscjohnson) (via ipen) (via christinels)
“I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.”
– G. I. Gurdjieff
“The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be...”
– Carl Sagan
“The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it...”
– Bill Hicks
“The humbleness of a warrior is not the humbleness of the beggar. The warrior...”
– Carlos Castaneda
