Laurence Overmire

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

— Laurence Overmire

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

— Laurence Overmire

“Raising consciousness involves confronting people with issues and truths that they have not really considered before. Many of these truths are uncomfortable…

— Laurence Overmire

“Breathe deep... The rain falls but a moment, and in a moment, gives life to another day.”

— Laurence Overmire

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

— Laurence Overmire

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

— Laurence Overmire

“Despite our differences, I consider everyone with a good heart to be my ally in creating a better, more peaceful world.”

— Laurence Overmire

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows…

— Laurence Overmire

“Dare to find your own truth, despite what others say, then have the courage to live it.”

— Laurence Overmire

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

— Laurence Overmire

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

— Laurence Overmire

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

— Laurence Overmire

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

— Laurence Overmire

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

— Laurence Overmire

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

— Laurence Overmire

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

— Laurence Overmire

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

— Laurence Overmire

Life is a poem most people never read.

— Laurence Overmire

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

— Laurence Overmire

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

— Laurence Overmire

Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in…

— Laurence Overmire

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language,

— Laurence Overmire

Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.

— Laurence Overmire

“Love doesn't make bullets. It doesn't drop bombs. Only hate does that - driven by fear.”

— Laurence Overmire

We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

— Laurence Overmire