I love to read and write, run and laugh, live and love. I am a passionate, engaged, vibrant, excited being on this planet. And I especially love to find quotations which express my passions in words much more eloquent than my own...
"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted" -Jack Kerouac
"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself." -Alan Alda
"...the goal was somewhere beyond, somewhere outside the present human sphere; that the purpose of life was not the maintenance of well-being, but some intensification and refining of consciousness, some enlargement of knowledge."
"But I like the inconveniences." -Aldous Huxley
"To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make. " -Truman Capote
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?" -Ray Bradbury
"When you feel in your gut what you are and then dynamically pursue it - don't back down and don't give up - then you're going to mystify a lot of folks. " -Bob Dylan
"Es ist viel schwerer, sich selbst zu verurteilen, als über andere zu richten. Wenn es dir gelingt, über ich selbst gut zu Gericht zu sitzen, dann bist du ein wirklicher Weiser." -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded on a fairy's wing." -F. Scott Fitzgerald
"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after." -Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don't necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk."
"You're a student--whether the idea appeals to you or not. You're in love with knowledge." -J.D. Salinger
"No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself." -Thoreau
"I don't like work--no man does--but I like what is in the work,--the chance to find yourself. Your own reality---for yourself, not for others---what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means."
-Joseph Conrad
"It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated." -Alec Bourne
"Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have oft-times no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own"
"But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious." -Jack Kerouac
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