Tag: words

Listen to me. They may control what you do, but no one can pee on your soul without your permission.

Whenever he began to paint, it seemed that Leonardo trembled, and he never finished any of the works he commenced because, so sublime was his idea of art he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.

I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you’ll never meet them. All right, so we do the best we can. Granted. But we must still realize that love is just the result of a chance encounter.

I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty, and Orion walks by and doesn’t speak.