Kilroy J. Oldster Quotes
Paroxysms of pain and twinges of desire leach from universal sources. All human suffering buttons itself to the pang of wanting.
Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.
The fresh and crisp air of the country reminds us that our blood surges from of the natural world and how tied we are to the sprung rhythms of earth and sky, weather and season.
Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.
How we respond to tragedy is the hallmark of character. Suffering a great loss places us at a spiritual milepost. The wind of our souls can either sour and wither or rejoice and thrive.
The best way to determine a person’s character is to judge them when their world is falling apart.
A journey of the mind – a written vision quest – has only one goal: to interact with the world and attempt to develop the dormant intellectual and spiritual awareness of the author.
We are always in the process of becoming. Self-identity is a fusion of our prior decisions and our current thoughts.
Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues.
Pent-up anger is oftentimes more destructive than a good quarrel.
To ask who we are represents a primary reflex in human consciousness. Every person seeks to understand him or herself and reach a verifiable and cohesive image of his or her own identity.
Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind.
Reading and writing are solitary activities that increase a person’s capacity for concentration, awareness, and conceptual thought as the person weaves immediate information with stored memories.
The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.
A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being.
Storytelling creates a healing serum. The thematic unguent of our personal story represents a fusion of the ineffable truths that each of us must discover within ourselves.
The human mind is a rover, it constantly returns to think about times past, cogitates upon the future, and actively considers the entire range of alternative plans to meet our daily survival demands.
A writer is not born but made through study and sheer willpower and ability to embrace beauty and agony.
A person’s greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.
Our life force is a form of flowing energy, a blast of verve renewed through our ongoing daily interactions and the inevitable collisions between the id and the ego.
There are times in life when the best part of our life and the worst part seemingly coincide, especially those periods that demark commencement of significant personal transformation.
Mythology and religion are relevant and remarkable, as they each represent imaginative truths – projections of human beings innermost desires – intermixed with fragments of factual reality.
Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.
A principled person’s greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.
When a person understands the problem that vexes them, and comprehends the choices that created them, they begin a journey of the mind seeking personal liberation from suffering.
Writing about the self to spur intellectual growth or attain a teardrop of emotional salvation is akin to a fish attempting to construct a net that will capture itself.
We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world.
We foster personal meaning out of life by exulting in all of nature, exhibiting a reverence for people, animals, plants, and by expressing compassion and sympathy for the entire community of life.
Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.
A person’s attitude creates the tone of his or her life. The highest expression of human dignity is to live a purposeful life devoted to principles and exhibiting compassion for other people.
Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul.
Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.
We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.
We inhabit an internal world that is subject to diversification. Every day we undergo personal transformation based upon experiences, thoughts, and feelings.
A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly.
All of our thoughts – ideas – are traceable to a sensation, an encounter with the world that leaves an impression upon the mind.
We cannot measure a person’s value to the human race by tabulating the size of his estate. We must judge each person by his or her final contribution to humanity and nature.
Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.
A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.
All knowledge begins with an expression of curiosity pertaining to the unknown or unknowable. Expressions of uncertainty and a doubtful nature lead a person to useful discoveries.
Suffering becomes beautiful whenever a person bears great calamities with cheerfulness.
A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.
We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.
Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of thought.
Living is a process of developing oneself. Without experiencing pain from disconcerting periods of our lives, we would be different person, perhaps a lesser person.
Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.
Liberating a prejudiced mind from its preconceived notions and scripting a life of purposefulness requires constant postulation, observation, evaluation, and synthesizing.
Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.