top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Perception is to be blamed. It, if given due attention, keeps changing."
Standard
Customized
More
"If there were a sympathy in choice,War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it,Making it momentary as a sound,Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,Brief as the lightning in the collied nightThat, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'The jaws of darkness do devour it up;So quick bright things come to confusion."
Author Name
Personal Development
"We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate. From images that are full, the spirit plunges on to others that suddenly must be filled; there are no lakes till eternity. Here, falling is best. To fall from the mastered emotion into the guessed-at, and onward."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible. If a grain of corn is not impermanent, it can never be transformed into a stalk of corn. If the stalk were not impermanent, it could never provide us with the ear of corn we eat."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Just because you believe something was true in the past does not mean it will be true in the future."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Remember that all we have is "on loan from Fortune, which can reclaim it without our permission-indeed, without even advance notice. Thus, we should love all our dear ones, but always with the thought that we have no promise that we may keep them forever-nay, no promise even that we may keep them for long."
Author Name
Personal Development
"A red leaf danced from a branch like a dropping flame, down into the calm blue lake. A gust had broken it free. There was a cold bite in the wind. It was now deep autumn in the mountains."
Author Name
Personal Development
"And these thingsthat keep alive on departure know that you praise them; transient,they look to us, the most transient, to be their rescue.They want us to change them completely, in our invisible hearts,into -- O endlessly -- us! Whoever, finally, we may be."
Author Name
Personal Development
"All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"A goatee is to beards what diamonds are to ornaments."
Aesthetics
"I wonder if they were aware of the power of complimentary alcohol during World War I."
Irony
"As soon as anger knocks at one's door, wisdom prepares to leave."
Anger
"Sometimes we all get dusty by a few mundane and tiring affairs-and merely need a gentle soul wash to see, and get deeply entangled with, the fervors of life again."
Renewal
"Now that I am past picking the knife to stab one, the reward of stabbing a few more comes at an unfairly lower risk!"
Violence
"The thirty-plus years of marriage between the ceiling and the cement plaster showed signs of weakness by frequently developing cracks and holes."
Observation
"As you become a better writer, the writing becomes more difficult. You toil harder to tell a story in a lesser number of words."
Discipline
"No great soul, as they say, lives for very long. Because God desperately wants all the great people near him."
Mortality
"We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked-like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go."
Evil
"Don't interrupt when your characters take a flight of their own."
Writing
bottom of page