J.F. Baldwin Quotes
Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.
I never walked out the door and said, "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the fairest Baldwin brother of them all?"
I am so much of a mind now to be in the audience, to watch and to experience, and to feel, rather than having to get up and perform, I want my life to be less about performing.
There comes a time when what is needed is not just rhetoric, but boots on the ground.
5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Story is the mother of us all. First we wrap our lives in language and then we act on who we say we are. We proceed from the word into the world and make a world based on our stories.
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
History is what scholars and conquerors say happened; story is what it was like to live on the ground.
Ritual is the way you carry the presence of the sacred. Ritual is the spark that must not go out.
Meaning drives us from despair to wonder, from confusion to clarity, from hesitance to confidence. And the only place to find meaning is in the importance of small things.
in writing we live life twice: once in the experience, and again in recording and reflecting upon our experience.
My real journey had very little to do with traveling Europe, and a whole lot to do with traveling my own mind.
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.
What is especially irritating about the whole abortion debate is the way the subject has been used as a political football by those on both the right and the left of the political aisle.
How many physicians, scientists, teachers, pastors, missionaries, statesmen, musicians, businessmen, and notable contributors to society have been murdered in the womb?
If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
Where I am right now I'm pretty good at. You know, I understand that there's a problem. I'm addressing it. I'm doing the work that I have to do.
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
I'd just turned 50, weighed 285, and my doctor had read me the riot act about my health.
I thought, 'My God, I'm gonna make $15,000 a week for 13 weeks.' What would I do with that kind of money? You know, I had never seen anything like that before in my life.
At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
Every generation proclaims that each must lead his own life, but seldom grants the subsequent generation the right to lead theirs.
There's nothing like fishing to pass the time and to incline toward a sort of magnificent stupidity in which nothing matters but tackle, bait, sunlight and the strike.
Either I'm listening to rap music, getting hyped up to go out and do something, or I'm listening to church music.
I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say 'Wow she looks healthy.'
The past is what makes the present coherent, and the past will remain horrible for exactly as long as we refuse to assess it honestly.
Recognizing a problem doesn't always bring a solution, but until we recognize that problem, there can be no solution.
Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.
