R.J. Lawrence Quotes

Hold up your hands before your eyes. You are looking at the hands of God.

Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon the world.

A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches Where light pushes through; A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air. A dip to the water.

I desire only Him and to be wholly His.

Nothing can create something all the time due to the laws of quantum mechanics, and it's - it's fascinatingly interesting.

All art is made from anger.

When I went to the scientific doctor I realised what a lust there was in him to wreak his so-called science on me and reduce me to the level of a thing. So I said: Good-morning! and left him.

I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

The availability of private insurance provides tremendous insulation for millions of individuals

There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.

Make your mind learn its way around the heart.

People treating you differently, when you don't feel any different, is really alienating.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

The most holy and important practice in the spiritual life is the presence of God - that is, every moment to take great pleasure that God is with you

Cocaine is totally different than steroids.

The mind has no existence by itself; it is only the glitter of the sun on the surface of the waters.

In America the cohesion was a matter of choice and will. But in Europe it was organic.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

The state of the world calls out for poetry to save it.

Accreditation. The "doctorate of fine art." I've never heard something so stupid in my entire life.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

I'm very, very thirsty for knowledge. Just because I'm good at something and have found success doesn't mean I'm done. I'm not even close to being done. I don't know if I ever will be done learning.

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.

You can't tell them anything, but hopefully they will learn from the example and won't have to go through it.

Dream your dreams with open eyes and make them come true.

I’m a big believer in accepting yourself the way you are and not really worrying about it.

Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

Believe me, count as lost each day you have not used in loving God.

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

When you're young, everything seems like a romance. At 96, I can still feel romantic about publishing young unknown writers.

Our tolerance for forms of religious expression we disagree with is a precise barometer of our own spiritual security.

Taking them out of the picture, so to speak, what football really is, the savagery, the core root of football, it doesn't change. It really puts the real in football.

I was going to come in and push you down the stairs.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

The universe does not care what we want.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

I hate people who say, "Oh, I'm addicted to working out". I just want to punch those people in the face.

The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.

We die a little every day and by degrees we’re reborn into different men, older men in the same clothes, with the same scars.

Love is never a fulfillment. Life is never a thing of continuous bliss. There is no paradise. Fight and laugh and feel bitter and feel bliss: and fight again. Fight, fight. That is life.

An opinion can be argued with; a conviction is best shot. The logical end of a war of creeds is the final destruction of one, and Salammbo is the classical text-book instance.

Almost every other Western in the last ten years has failed, since Dances with Wolves.

Before the monopoly should be permitted, there must be reason to believe it will do some good - for society, and not just for monopoly holders.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board