“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it's only intangibles, ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die.” PeopleBelieveWellsIdeasRealLastsDiesBeliefPerfectPowerfulFantasyImagineIgnoranceConceptsStonesWoodsChokeUnreal Book:Choke: A Novel Source: Choke: A Novel
“We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we notice not only each mountain shadow and each stone on the beach but, especially, we notice the beautiful faces and complex natures of each other. We are here to bring to consciousness the beauty and power that are around us and to praise the people who are here with us. We witness our generation and our times. We watch the weather. Otherwise, creation would be playing to an empty house.” PeopleWould BeTogetherBeautifulFacesHouseConsciousnessWatchesGenerationsCreationMountainShadowStonesEmptyPraiseAgingComplexesWeatherWitnessBeachOur TimeOur GenerationBeautiful FaceEmpty HousesAbet Author:Annie Dillard
“You can't pretend to be a Sharon Stone or a Marilyn Monroe. You really can't fake that.” PeopleStonesFakeFake PeopleSharon Author:Claire Bloom
“There is something in such laws that takes the breath away. They are not discoveries or inventions of the human mind, but exist independently of us. In a moment of clarity, one can at most discover that they are there and take them into account. Long before there were people on the earth, crystals were already growing in the earth's crust. On one day or another, a human being first came across such a sparkling morsel of regularity lying on the ground or hit one with his stone tool and it broke off and fell at his feet, and he picked it up and regarded it in his open hand, and he was amazed.” PeopleMindFirstsHumansLongMomentsHandsEarthSpiritualLawLyingHuman BeingsGrowingFeetOne DayDiscoveryToolsStonesAccountsBreathsInventionClarityBrokeHuman MindAmazedCrystalsSparklingRegularityMoments Of Clarity Author:M. C. Escher
“People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten.” PeopleMaySaidStillsHateNamesHurtBreakHavensStonesI HateSticksForgottenBonesBullyHate YouI Hate YouHurt MeSticks And StonesTrue WordsWords Can Hurt Author:Demi Lovato