Cormac McCarthy Quote
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.
Cormac McCarthy
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Success
To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tennesse Williams Quote
It is the continual rush of time, so violent that it appears to be screaming, that deprives our actual lives of so much dignity and meaning.
Your Blinded Hand
Suppose that
everything that greens and grows
should blacken in one moment, flower and branch.
I think that I would find your blinded hand.
Suppose that your cry and mine were lost among numberless cries
in a city of fire when the earth is afire,
I must still believe that somehow I would find your blinded hand.
Through flames everywhere
consuming earth and air
I must believe that somehow, if only one moment were offered,
I would
find your hand.
I know as, of course, you know
the immeasurable wilderness that would exist
in the moment of fire.
But I would hear your cry and you’d hear mine and each of us
would find
the other’s hand.
We know
that it might not be so.
But for this quiet moment, if only for this
moment,
And against all reason,
let us believe, and believe in our hearts,
that somehow it would be so.
I’d hear your cry, you mine –
And each of us would find a blinded hand.
Tennessee Williams
Oscar Wilde Quote
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you – Oscar Wilde
Sonnet 69
Maybe nothingness is to be without your presence,
without you moving, slicing the noon
like a blue flower, without you walking
later through the fog and the cobbles,
without the light you carry in your hand,
golden, which maybe others will not see,
which maybe no one knew was growing
like the red beginnings of a rose.
In short, without your presence: without your coming
suddenly, incitingly, to know my life,
gust of a rosebush, wheat of wind:
since then I am because you are,
since then you are, I am, we are,
and through love I will be, you will be, we’ll be.
Pablo Neruda
The Paradox of Time
The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings, but shorter
tempers; wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints; we spend more, but have less;
we buy more, but enjoy it less.
We have bigger houses, but smaller families; more conveniences, but less time;
we have more degrees, but less sense; more knowledge, but less judgement; more
experts, but more problems; more medicine, but less wellness.
We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much,
love too seldom, and hate too often. We’ve learnt how to make a living, but not a
life; we’ve added years to life, but not life to years.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street
to meet the new neighbor. We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space;
we’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we’ve split the atom, but not our
prejudice.
We have higher incomes, but lower morals; we’ve become long on quantity, but
short on quality. These are the times of tall men and short character; steep profits
and shallow relationships.
These are the times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure, but less
fun; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are the days of two incomes,
but more divorce; of fancier houses, but broken homes. It is a time when there is
more in the show window and nothing in the stock room; a time when technology
can bring this letter to you, and a time when you can choose to make a difference
or to just hit delete.
Dr. Bob Moorehead
