“Our thoughts and feelings make us whereas love and beauty sustain us.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty Copy Share Image
“Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Doubt Copy Share Image
“Rejection of desire is liberating. Renunciation is a form of power.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Desire Copy Share Image
“Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Existence Copy Share Image
“Human beings experience sadness because they want what is beyond human ability – absolute control and an immortal life.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Depression Copy Share Image
“Grand failures – the misfortunes of living – provide human beings with an identity. A person is the sum of his or… — Kilroy J. Oldster Error-quotes Copy Share Image
“Writing word after word represents a type of power, the sort of command that a person amasses slowly with thoughtful inquiry.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Essayist Copy Share Image
“A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Authors Copy Share Image
“We are made of flesh that bruises and bleeds, bones that break, and a mind that is susceptible to wild mood swings.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Bruises Copy Share Image
“Every act of art is a good faith attempt to arrest time – the motion of life – and make contact with… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Books Copy Share Image
“The aim of all life is death. Life is the apprenticeship that we serve preparing for death. Life is the fleeting spark… — Kilroy J. Oldster Death Copy Share Image
“Misery develops in the insidious seams created by imprecision and faulty human thinking. The cure for unhappiness is finding joy by embracing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty-of-humanity Copy Share Image
“Engaging in meditative self-reflection and gaining increased control of inner experiences provides a person with a sense of control over fear and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Chaos Copy Share Image
“Every form of life must struggle. Life is an aberration; death is ordinary. Life requires obstruction, conflict, reverses, and resolve. Life requires… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adventure Copy Share Image
“Writing enables a person to build a protective barrier shielding them from an adverse environment, scrutinize their circumstances, and discover how to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Barrier Copy Share Image
“Working for a husband and wife ran business is nearly as tricky as navigating a sailing ship while battling the forces of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Business Copy Share Image
“The pathos of the human life teaches one that idolatry of the ego is a sham. Only by living in harmonious accord… — Kilroy J. Oldster Bliss Copy Share Image
“Stories trace their roots to impassioned human interactions with the world. I always sense a storyline as an emotional yearning embedded in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Creative writing Copy Share Image
“The philosophical study of beauty, art, and the splendor of nature nurtures a person’s fertile mind by exposing a person to the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aesthetics Copy Share Image
“Storytelling gives form to the metal dialogue of the mind and in doing so, reveals our self-fiction. Memory and imagination fills part… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artistic-endeavor Copy Share Image
“Extreme anxiety, fear, exhaustion, and lack of other viable options are what cause a person to surrender everything. Desperation is also the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Awareness Copy Share Image
“Human life is inherently dualistic. It consists of or is explicable as two fundamental entities, including rivalries between subject and object, mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Body-and-soul Copy Share Image
“Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artist Copy Share Image
“Writers use both their blood and their brains to explore the darkest recesses of their pooling self. Writing allows us to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Change your life Copy Share Image
“There are times in life that we ascribe qualities or traits to other people that are inaccurate or fail to recognize other… — Kilroy J. Oldster Change Copy Share Image
“Our personal experiences and mental reasoning skills establish the range of our perception of reality. Our physical and mental abilities determine the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Ability Copy Share Image
“Emotional exhaustion follows fast on the footsteps of physical and mental depletion. I feel my lifeblood draining away in an oily spigot… — Kilroy J. Oldster Enlightenment Copy Share Image
“Humankind devotes much of its collective energy to managing personal and institutional anxiety and dealing with unsuccessful efforts of its civilians to… — Kilroy J. Oldster Animals Copy Share Image
“High performers whom exhibit tremendous self-control tend to be burden by their own competence. Studies indicate that being extraordinary competent can place… — Kilroy J. Oldster Assignments Copy Share Image
“In the vast spectrum of space-time’s coeternal continuum, I am but a glint of bundled energy held together by the translucent fiber… — Kilroy J. Oldster Astronomy Copy Share Image
“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into… — Kilroy J. Oldster Creation Copy Share Image
“Language is our identity tool and by using experience, observation, and imagination, we each discover the words that give voice to our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Big city Copy Share Image
“One of the universally despised sins is hypocrisy, falsely pretending to hold beliefs, feelings, standards qualities, opinions, virtues, motivations, or other characteristics… — Kilroy J. Oldster Bias Copy Share Image
“The mind provides a person with the mental fortitude to survive any physical or spiritual crisis. For the present time, I am… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Awaken Copy Share Image
“A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adversity Copy Share Image
