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- When you follow your bliss a kind of track opens up, that's always been there, waiting for you. And the life that you should be…
- When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been…
- Marriage is not a love affair. A love affair has to do with immediate personal satisfaction. Marriage is an ordeal; it means yielding, time and…
- Shakespeare said that art is a mirror held up to nature. And that’s what it is. The nature is your nature, and all of these…
- The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes to…
- Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up.
- There are mythologies that are scattered, broken up, all around us. We stand on what I call the terminal moraine of shattered mythic systems that…
- When you are in accord with nature, nature will yield its bounty. This is something that is coming up in our own consciousness now...recognizi ng…
- In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between…
- Out of perfection nothing can be made. Every process involves breaking something up. The earth must be broken to bring forth life. If the seed…
- Just as anyone who listens to the muse will hear, you can write out of your own intention or out of inspiration. There is such…
More Up Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- Growing up, my ideals were Barbra Streisand, Cher, and my mom. — Kevyn Aucoin
- When I was growing up, the men in my life were abusive; women were the ones I ran to for comfort. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Get this in mind early: We never grow up. — Richard Bach
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong