J.R. Miller Quotes
His level of experience is nearly transcendent.
Perhaps Ali's most significant talent with the ability to transport people past thoughts and words to a world of feeling and play.
You say I can't do it because you can't. Mohammed Ali
Whoever uses the spirit that isin him creatively is an artist. Tomake living itself an art, that isthe goal.
Art consists in going the full length. If you start with the drums you have to end with dynamite, or TNT.
Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.
And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.
Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.
...burying themselves in his arm was more about feeling his love in the confusion, in the difficulty, than it was about having moved past it.
Poetry without truth, is like a rose without thorns.Still pretty, But sometime the real beauty comes from the things that can make us bleed.
The only thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give is enough love.
I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.
Someone told me sleep was the cousin of death and followin’ the dollar finds nothin’ but stress.
If the path isn't in front of you, you can't choose to walk it." - Viriathus, Revelation
She wants you to be a god, " I told him."I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere.
If you worry yourself to death over the struggle, you will never experience the good life.
Your path will change. Your destiny never will.""But what if I'm on the wrong path?""There is no wrong path. Not when it comes to destiny. There are only detours, you see.
To know there is a better story for your life and to choose something other is like choosing to die.
The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.
Reality is like a fine wine, ” he said to me. “It will not appeal to children.
The truth is tucked inside of me, it is what I want the world to see. But do youy see it in me, oh just let it all be. I am happy being me.
At any given moment, you have the power to say: This is not how the story is going to end.
The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
It's just like an alcoholic to think he's doing the Zombie Apocalypse wrong.
And by the way, my belief is that if men were the ones getting pregnant, abortions would be easier to get than food poisoning in Moscow
Mother, what is a Feminist?""A feminist, my daughter, Is any woman now who caresTo think about her own affairsAs men don't think she oughter.
I have never allowed a gentleman to dictate to me, or to interfere with anything I do.
Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.
A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.
Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.
Experience has taught us that we have only one enduring weapon in our struggle against mental illness: the emotional discovery of our truth about the unique history of our childhood.
This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.
It was a crushing defeat, but it put iron in my backbone and sulphur in my blood. I knew at least what it was to fail. I knew what it was to attempt something big.
Grace does not contest the powers-that-be through an effective show of verifiable strength but through a persistent and subversive recoding of how one defines what strength and weakness are.
Everyman has his own destiny: The only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
Now, as the weeks passed, there was a future, there was a trouble that would not go away.
Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?
...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.
I didn't know how I could want things so badly while making it impossible to ever get them.
I spend a lot of time trying to convince myself that nothing really matters except being alive.