“The loss of sanity – that s the worst thing that could have happened to anyone.”
“I realized as a songwriter that all I really do is make jewelry for the inside of other people s minds.”
“Only an egotist thinks that he deserves the blessings that come his way.” Jill Carter, (character in The Playpretty)”
“Many arrogant people achieved powerful positions, ignoring people around them, but in the end they failed. They would give anything in the world not to have chosen such a path.”
“Humankind’s pathetic life supplies the poetry of our existence. Just as without tragedy comedy would lose its magical qualities, life without pain and absent knowledge of the inevitability of our death would result in our brief existence devoid of any note of sincerity and our lives ending without an apt punctuation mark.”
“Critical personal writing enables the author to penetrate mental falsities that imprison him or her in fearfulness, bitterness, and jealously and encompass the reverential awe for the transcendental pathos of life, the small moments of happiness interspersed between stints of loneliness, sorrow, and hardship imbued in human life.”
“Everything I believed is false. The things I thought I knew are wrong. So, where is the truth?”
“We Are What We Do; And No More”
“The Greatest Attenuation To Faith Is Empiricism”
“To seek the sacred ways is to search the holy words.”
“The best way to remember those who left is to carry the values that they taught you.”
“Tom se dijo que, después de todo, el mundo no era tan malo como parecía. Había descubierto, sin darse cuenta, una gran ley que rige los actos humanos, a saber: que para que un hombre o un muchacho codicie algo, basta con hacer que le sea difícil alcanzarlo.”
“A sound state of mind cannot live with an unsound state of mind.”
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered perspective. We change our worldview by examining fragments of our historical and biological content and by considering the context of human reality from multiple perspectives, which in turn provides us with a more enlightened understanding of human existence. By perceiving the world and humankind’s march into civilization from a more perceptive vantage point, we are more likely to appreciate all aspects of life including the beauty of nature and the historical struggle for human existence. Along with greater understanding of both nature and human history, we gain a more comprehensive understanding of ourselves, and grasp the futility of despising all of our human failings. Perceiving the self from a proper vantage point enables a person to establish a premeditated and reasoned way to live, set modest personal goals, realize that struggle, loss, and failure are inevitable, while comprehending life is nonetheless worthy of living.”
“Our reward for surviving the hard knocks of a corporal life is arguably paltry. The inevitability of the big sleep is our final reward for laying it all on the line each day that we still breathe. A person whom elects to transform him or herself does so because they believe that life is worthwhile. If a troubled person mints a newly reconstituted persona, it might enable them serenely to accept everything life calls for, even struggle, loss, defeat, disintegration, and death.”
“Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a life of blandness, not to dare penetrate into the heart of nothingness.”
“Life gives us many gifts that we could hardly imagine. When we let go of preconceptions and witness life without the turmoil that a self-indulgent ego perpetuates we perceive what heretofore eluded us.”