“No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.” -- Nelson Mandela
"We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, "O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of the faithless... of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life? Answer. That you are here - that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse." That the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?" --John Keating
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance." -Aristotle
Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed. ~Mark Twain
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry ~Mark Twain
“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.” --Gabriel Garcia Marquez | |
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.” --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.” --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.” --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Justice. . . limps along, but it gets there all the same.” --Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”― Charles Bukowski
"Each time we don’t say what we wanna say, we’re dying." Yoko Ono