“We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Compassion Copy Share Image
“Laughter is the plangent reflection of pain. Laughter acts as a tonic, the surcease for pain.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Comedy 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
“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 Essayist 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
“An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Depression Copy Share Image
“A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Generosity 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 Disappointment Copy Share Image
“Advancing towards a person’s dreams with confidence enables a person to move beyond restrictive boundaries and meet with uncommon success. Liberated from… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artist Copy Share Image
“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Education 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
“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
“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
“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 Essayist Copy Share Image
“Writing is a solitary venture. Making use of a soundless void in the vortex of time the author enters the realm of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Books Copy Share Image
“The outcome of my cumulative life’s work is still undetermined. Chance, fate, attitude, aptitude, and preparedness to pursue new opportunities will regulate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Destiny 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 Compassion Copy Share Image
“Joy always follows on the heels of pain. If a person escapes a mindset that current events represent an ongoing tragedy, they… — Kilroy J. Oldster Appreciating-life Copy Share Image
“We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the many possible patterns… — Kilroy J. Oldster Experiences-and-adventures Copy Share Image
“The story of what it means to be human is never complete. Every generation will produce its own share of comedies and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Human spirit Copy Share Image
“It is up to each one of us to immunize ourselves from any disabling bolts of anger and defend ourselves from the… — Kilroy J. Oldster Acceptance Copy Share Image
“Every day part of our mind exercises are devoted to bracing ourselves against the advancing penultimate act that foreshadows our sorrowful ultimate… — Kilroy J. Oldster Black ice Copy Share Image
“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artistic expression Copy Share Image
“Writing a personal essay or memoir addresses how a person thinks and behaves in the context of society’s prevailing moral and ethical… — Kilroy J. Oldster Autobiography Copy Share Image
“A person does not reach the pinnacle of self-realization without relentlessly exploring the parameters of the self, exhausting their psychic energy coming… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aches and pains Copy Share Image
“All love is bittersweet. Love is inexplicable; it is part poetry and part masochism. Part of love is the loss of self-control… — Kilroy J. Oldster Cease to exist Copy Share Image
“Human beings innate complexities resist reduction into simple sentences and neat paragraphs. The stories that come nearest to expressing the ambivalent nature… — Kilroy J. Oldster Autobiography Copy Share Image
“The black hole of the galaxy swallows the boiling energy of human fury. Soon my waning fume will be obscured forevermore, all… — Kilroy J. Oldster Accepting life 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… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“Life is too short for fearmongering and becoming ensnarled in lengthy periods of depression. We must use our time judiciously and never… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adventure Copy Share Image
“We all gravitate towards pursuing happiness by exploring how to bring a state of peacefulness to our internal and external environments.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Blissful 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… — Kilroy J. Oldster Metamorphosis Copy Share Image
“From childbirth to our deathbeds, we seek to impose our will upon the external environment. At each milepost in life, we seek… — Kilroy J. Oldster Awareness Copy Share Image
“A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Blunt-truths Copy Share Image
“Maniacal obsession can be a destructive or a transformative psychic force. What is unacceptable is a life of blandness, not to dare… — Kilroy J. Oldster Existential angst Copy Share Image
“A person must always be ready to kindle the candle in their heart and fill the void in their soul by unveiling… — Kilroy J. Oldster Bliss Copy Share Image
“Disharmony at home or work is toxic to a person’s physical disposition and mental health.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Balance-in-life Copy Share Image
“We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Fame Copy Share Image
