“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
“The biggest impediment to loving life is our inflated egos. Only by suppressing our ego and controlling our selfish thoughts can we… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty of life Copy Share Image
“We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Behavior Copy Share Image
“Nature provided human beings with all the gemstones needed to attain happiness – physical abilities, intellectual and cognitive capacity, and emotional indexes,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Ego Copy Share Image
“Serenity of mind produces an expanding awareness that fosters creative selflessness, which in turn enables us to experience unabashed harmony communing in… — Kilroy J. Oldster Bliss 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
“Humankind demonstrates an unerring ability to witness beauty. By observing nature’s beauty and striving to create beautiful things, humankind brokers its own… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty Copy Share Image
“Art is not just a display of beauty. Art also reflects what is ugly, and it celebrates the grotesque. An artist frequently… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“As we age, we become more aware of the rarity and exquisiteness of beauty, and come to admire the flowers blooming amongst… — Kilroy J. Oldster Aging Copy Share Image
“Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live and a good… — Kilroy J. Oldster Empathy 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 Communication Copy Share Image
“Writers’ never-ending quest involves investigating genuineness while carving out narrative nonfiction. They must strive to reach great truths by recounting untold lies… — Kilroy J. Oldster Adventure Copy Share Image
“The principal theme of any autobiography revolves around the brushwork of self-transformation, the freeing of the self from the strictures of self-imposed… — Kilroy J. Oldster Change 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
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Authentic-living Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Boisterous 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
“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
“Living in the moment is not an excuse to be a ne'er-do-well. A person can give up on life or immerse themselves… — Kilroy J. Oldster Art Copy Share Image
“Practical affairs task the human brain throughout the day. At night, the mind takes a deserved hiatus to consider the impossible and… — Kilroy J. Oldster Absurd Copy Share Image
“A writer’s voice emanates from their interest and compulsions that absorbs them completely. Only by fully committing himself or herself to a… — Kilroy J. Oldster Authenticity Copy Share Image
“All forms of art must contribute to the discursive dialogue regarding the composition of the malleable human condition.” — Kilroy J. Oldster Art 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
“In a moment of unusual clarity, we eliminate suffering by not wishing for a different life. When we affirm every manifold of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Acceptance Copy Share Image
“The tangible and factual components of reality along with the intangible strands of memory and imagination constitute the framework that houses our… — Kilroy J. Oldster Beauty Copy Share Image
