“Over time marked with periodic starvation and after enduring a life lacking in wholesome personal habits, a person learns how to harness… — Kilroy J. Oldster Contempt Copy Share Image
“A person of large dreams does not allow other people’s opinion to damper his or her zestfulness. Overcoming fear of making an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Ambition 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 Change 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
“We each possess the capacity for self-development. We also possess the capacity for self-destruction. The path that we chose to take –… — Kilroy J. Oldster Darkness Copy Share Image
“It is only after a person surrenders achieving “The American Dream,” and annihilates any personal thought of living exclusively for material gain… — Kilroy J. Oldster American dream Copy Share Image
“Living with love for all humankind and worshiping nature’s immense beauty cures heartache and restores bliss. Respecting the splendor of nature awakens… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty Copy Share Image
“All people intuitively seek emotional equanimity, freedom from anxiety, distress, and trepidation that might cause a person to lose symmetrical balance of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Creating 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
“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
“They say that the personal transformation that gives rise to self-realization – the transcendent function that leads to the highest echelon of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Change Copy Share Image
“Ruefully, nobody perceives me as exceptionally gifted, intelligent, handsome, or physically strong. My sense of alienation stems from an inferiority complex, depressive… — Kilroy J. Oldster Alienation Copy Share Image
“Hard edges make truth and by necessity, truth is unbending. Unlike truth’s absolutism, justice is a qualitative substance; it is not an… — Kilroy J. Oldster Compromise Copy Share Image
“All forms of creative thinking involve a struggle to conquer or master something, and usually that specific something eludes us completely. A… — Kilroy J. Oldster Creative thinking Copy Share Image
“I desire to establish a profound state of peacefulness, an imperturbable stillness of mind, an unconditioned mode of being that is free… — Kilroy J. Oldster Artists-life Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing that incites the mind and instigates personal growth involves examination and re-examination, a process of noticing and reflecting upon… — Kilroy J. Oldster Author Copy Share Image
“The elements of trial and error, similar to earth and sky, and fire and water, delineates the constituent modules of our lives.… — Kilroy J. Oldster Death quotes Copy Share Image
“Every book adds a grain of humility and humanity to the communal ground that we tread. Writing is the one method that… — Kilroy J. Oldster Books Copy Share Image
“Writing and other efforts to produce an enduring piece of artwork is a gallant response to the prospect of death. Every person… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“A writer must develop a representative voice. A writing voice is reflective of the sum total of his or her cognitive, physical,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Essay writing Copy Share Image
“Self-questioning and self-identification go hand in hand. It is surprising how little life changes. Most of the days that we spend working,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Actions speak louder than words Copy Share Image
“Life surrounds us. Each day we witness the plenteous gifts of nature. Even following the most bitterly cold winter, new life waits… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty-of-nature Copy Share Image
“The goal of all principled people is to recognize truth. Simple or complex thoughts and feelings standing alone rarely express any universal… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aesthetic Copy Share Image
“A person experiences time by traveling through the environment consisting of time and space, and encounters a variety of sense impressions. Time… — Kilroy J. Oldster Clock Copy Share Image
“We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by… — Kilroy J. Oldster Compassion Copy Share Image
“Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aggression Copy Share Image
“We choose the prism that we use to view life. Life can be a mystical tour or an outright bummer. We can… — Kilroy J. Oldster Choose 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 Art Copy Share Image
“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Goal Copy Share Image
“We must exude a sense of proportional gratitude that humankind’s exquisite texture is composed of a feeling soul and an intelligent will,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Free will Copy Share Image
“Hate corrodes the fibrous material of the self. The presence or absence of the emotions of love and hate acts a catalytic… — Kilroy J. Oldster Emotions Copy Share Image
“A person’s work allows their character to form and provides a creative outlet for their inner world of imaginative thoughts and creative… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“Personal essay writing is analogous to undertaking a vision quest, a potential turning point in life taken to discover intimate personal truths,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Dreams Copy Share Image
“Self-knowledge, a spiritual metamorphosis, precedes understanding other people and comprehending the beauty of being part of the spontaneous interplay of the natural… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty Copy Share Image
“How do I avoid dullness, folly, and gross acts of excess? How do I distinguish cogent acts of survival from random acts… — Kilroy J. Oldster Bliss Copy Share Image
“Autobiographical writing acts as a timeless testament to each person’s epic record of adventure, heartache, road to perdition, and achievement of a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adventure 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 Essayist Copy Share Image
“Love, reverence, and adoration, are multifaceted emotions. Similar to a painting by an artist, how we respond to a beautiful woman, nature,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“The most evocative life memories, which produced a synesthesia of emotions, consist of a host of small pleasures intertwined with the homespun… — Kilroy J. Oldster Evocative Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is ultimately the only way that we know besides song, dance, painting, and music to share with our tribesmen what it… — Kilroy J. Oldster Essayist Copy Share Image
