top of page
Quote_1.png
James Broughton

"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing."

Standard 
 Customized
"Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing."

Exlpore more Being quotes

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It's like being a Knight of the Garter. It's an honor, but it doesn't hold up anything."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

Quote_1.png
Asa Don Brown

"Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, see to the (be?) worthy of being known."

Explore more quotes by James Broughton

Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"I had a toy theater and a magic lantern, and when I was eight I built a stage for theatricals in the attic."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"A born poet knows in his cradle that a poetic life is the only life worth living."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"Rarest of the real poets are born poets. They are the oddballs, not the professors."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"The quietest poetry can be an explosion of joy."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"If you don't fill your days with love, you are wasting your life."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"Most poets in their youth begin in adolescent sadness. I find it more rewarding to end in gladness."
Quote_1.png
James Broughton
"Adversity is a stimulus."
bottom of page