Words worth keeping

The quote collection.

Reminders for brave starts, creative days, and the moments when you need a little push.

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Calm481

“We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us.”

“I bid you to a one-man revolution — / The only revolution that is coming.”

“It is the future that creates his present. / All is an interminable chain of longing.”

“It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other’s opposite and complement.”

“That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony.”

Calm487

“There is a contradiction in wanting to be perfectly secure in a universe whose very nature is momentariness and fluidity.”

“Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared.”

“The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions.”

“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”