Inspiring Words

The words of others can prove to be some of the most important things in our lives. Here is a selection of important quotes (to me)...hopefully a selection that will grow with time.

• "You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, if you are in pain, if you experience losses, and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain as a gift to you with a very specific purpose." -- Elizabeth Kubler Ross
• "When one door of happiness closes another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we don't see the one which was opened for us." -- Helen Keller
• "Our greatest battles are that with our own minds." -- Jameson Frank
• "Woke up thismorning right out of a dream, reached for my pen and pad because my mind was on a rhyme scheme..." -- Beastie Boys
• "Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat." -- Robert Frost
• "A poem is a naked person." -- Bob Dylan
• "She's not the kind of girl who likes to tell the world about the way she feels about herself." -- Garbage
• "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free." -- Michelangelo
• "All that I desire to point out is the general principle that Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life." Oscar Wilde
• "Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud." -- Hermann Hesse
• "What is hidden is more real than what is manifested." -- Simone Weil
• "Look around and choose your own ground for long you live and high you fly." -- Pink Floyd
• "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite egual the experience behind them." -- Charled Simic
• "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them." -- Charled Simic
• “Where there is love, there is pain.” -- Spanish Proverb
• “ You may say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one, I hope someday you’ll join us…” --John Lennon

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