Too much schooling sucks out all emotional creativity. I feel, but can't feel long enough to write.
It's not like anyone really reads this anyway.
One more month.
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"No one has ever seen God, but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us." 1 John 4:12
About Me
- Kelle Sue
- Vista, California, United States
- This is an exercise in vanity, with me assuming that you would want to read writings from my life.
Beautiful Words
"To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And to never, never forget."
- Arundhati Roy
"Not to move forward, to stay where we are, to regress, in other words to rely on what we have, is very tempting, for what we have, we know; we can hold onto it, feel secure in it. We fear, and consequently, avoid, taking a step into the unknown, the uncertain; for, indeed, while the step may not appear risky to us after we have taken it, before we take that step the new aspects beyond it appear very risky, and hence frightening. Only the old, the tried, is safe; or so it seems. Every new step contains the danger of failure, and that is one of the reasons people are so afraid of freedom."
-Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be
"Without a firm idea of what he lives for, man will not consent to live and will sooner destroy himself than remain on earth."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brother's Karamazov
"[Whilst] everything around me is ever changing ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates dissolves, and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God... And is this power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love. He is the supreme Good. "
- Mahatma Gandhi
- Arundhati Roy
"Not to move forward, to stay where we are, to regress, in other words to rely on what we have, is very tempting, for what we have, we know; we can hold onto it, feel secure in it. We fear, and consequently, avoid, taking a step into the unknown, the uncertain; for, indeed, while the step may not appear risky to us after we have taken it, before we take that step the new aspects beyond it appear very risky, and hence frightening. Only the old, the tried, is safe; or so it seems. Every new step contains the danger of failure, and that is one of the reasons people are so afraid of freedom."
-Erich Fromm, To Have or To Be
"Without a firm idea of what he lives for, man will not consent to live and will sooner destroy himself than remain on earth."
-Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brother's Karamazov
"[Whilst] everything around me is ever changing ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates dissolves, and recreates. That informing power or spirit is God... And is this power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love. He is the supreme Good. "
- Mahatma Gandhi
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