“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All writers want to a place their mark upon human consciousness by creating a physical record of their distinctive thoughts and an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is a form of intense thinking that takes a person on a journey into previously uncharted territory of the writer’s mind.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All experiences change us and personal writing is one of the most powerful agencies of change. The person who wrote these personal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Memory and imagination allow us to enter the womb of creation, devise the lens through which we translate our surroundings, and create… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Sentence making is an act of questing into unexplored regions, probing the anarchy of daylight, and exploring the troubling confusion and turmoil… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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 Copy Share Image
“Writing is an exhausting and demoralizing task that destroys human conceits. Writing an elongated series of personal essay opens a person’s mind… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The writer’s obsessions are twofold. First, communicate their thoughts onto paper with a great degree of precision in order accurately to express… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Philosophic thoughts allow people to use human reason and imagination to consider eternal matters and explore the ramifications of their own transience.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is emblematic art form, which means that the book will never be any greater than the writer’s ability to perceive, classify,… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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 Copy Share Image
“Language is an exploratory tool. Linking observations and thoughts in an orderly fashion is the business of a philosopher. A writer is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“This scroll is my personal obituary, a journal that documents my time toiling on this rocky orb. I labored to say who… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We do not use writing exclusively to attain perspective upon our self-referential human existence. We dedicate our essayistic existence to witnessing the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The language that we employ in internal and written communications with oneself contains complex thoughts. My written self-speech employs language that is… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“All forms of writing are an act of conception; writing must lead to creation. Each time that we write, we begin again.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Art is long. Life is short, but it deserves our attentive devotion. Embrace life. No person has a monopoly on wisdom. Despite… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Writing is one method for revising a person’s outlook on life and observing the world and one’s place therein from an altered… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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 Copy Share Image
“Whenever we share a personal story with other people, we provide an enchanting testament that illustrates the distinctive tinting of our estranged… — Kilroy J. Oldster 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 Copy Share Image
“Writing allows us to row the mind into new, unanticipated directions, change our stream of consciousness, and alter our very being.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The emotional ingredients that sustain long-term relationships are kindness, thoughtfulness, and compassion.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Personal disillusionment accompanied by self-pity and self-loathing are the Achilles’ heel of modern humankind, representing the weakness of the human spirit.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Life is a collection of memories and feelings. Mawkish sentimentally urges us to engage in artistic overtures, we yearn to share with other people… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Time is inexplicable because it moves – clicks away – at steady increments, while increasing the past and bringing the future into the present.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Each of us, along with our ancestors, inhabits the same cosmos. When we tell stories, we enter the stream of human consciousness; we take… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A period of darkness is essential in order to expand personal awareness. Experiencing sadness and loss makes a person appreciative of life, more tenderhearted,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“A person writes similar to how a blind person uses brail. We grope along the palpable corridors of the mind’s organic texture to locate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“People frequently ask me why I work so hard - prolong hours, infrequent vacations, and never calling in sick or missing work for any… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The ego is the culmination of our preferences and dislikes. Our ego represents the firm edges of how we perceive ourselves. An ego death… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
