May 2010
112 posts
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
—Scott Adams
“Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything … whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.”
—Tina Turner
“What we miss was beautiful, but what we will have will be amazing. Let go and move forward with me.”
—me
“From the ashes, a fire shall be woken. A light from the shadow shall spring. Renewed shall be blade that was broken. The crownless again shall be king.”
—Arwen - Lord of the Rings
“I will not say, Do not weep, for not all tears are an evil.”
—Gandalf - Lord of the Rings
“Keep away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too can become great.”
—Mark Twain
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
—E. E. Cummings
“
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
“Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.”
—Unknown
“Great dancers are not great because of their technique; they are great because of their passion.”
—Martha Graham
“Stand up and walk out of your history.”
—Phil McGraw
“Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”
—Leo Buscaglia
“I ask but one thing of you, only one,
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone
Out into the night. Alas, how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed, but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs.
O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!” —Amy Lowell, from her poem To A Friend
That always you will be my dream of you;
That never shall I wake to find untrue
All this I have believed and rested on,
Forever vanished, like a vision gone
Out into the night. Alas, how few
There are who strike in us a chord we knew
Existed, but so seldom heard its tone
We tremble at the half-forgotten sound.
The world is full of rude awakenings
And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground,
Yet still our human longing vainly clings
To a belief in beauty through all wrongs.
O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!” —Amy Lowell, from her poem To A Friend
