--LET’S HOPE IT’S A GOOD ONE WITHOUT ANY FEAR 

 

 

-“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness.  I hope you read some fine book and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art.  And, I hope, somewhere in the next year you surprise yourself.” Neil Gailman

 

-“Hush, children, don’t you understand history is being made.” G. McGrath

 

 -"No man is a failure who has friends." -Clarence (It's a Wonderful Life)

-“There are so many other worlds.  When you hold special rocks in your hands, you can hear them.” Rainbow Wolf, age 6

-“I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way.” Jessica Rabbit

 

“Time makes you bolder.” Stevie Nicks

 

“People ask why my work is so dark.  I don’t really have an answer.  Why does Christopher Walken always play weirdos and villains?  That’s just the way we’re wired.” Benjamin Percy

 

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.” Annie Dillard

 

-“I’d be really scared if I wasn’t scared.” Rob Ryan

 

-“You’ve got to find your diamond in the sand.” Jeff Bridges

-"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them—if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
J.D. Salinger

-“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It's seeing through the facade of pretense. It's the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.”  Adyashanti

-“Let me teach you about beauty

a slanted shipwreck

draped in its own torn sails.” Alicia Jo Rabins

 -“When you meet someone, and you look that person in the eye, be kind, because within those eyes is a great battle waging.” Dalai Lama

-“Our highest dignity as human beings, what really sets us apart from everything else, is our capacity to disclose new world.  To open up new possibilities.” Heidegger

-“To be human is to be engaged in an enormous battle within yourself.”

-“We are set don on this earth bewildered.”

-“You who will finally be the readers who will realize I am a fraud.”

“The most daunting part of the journey is that you must do it alone.”

-“At the heart of technology there is no heart.”

-“The robot of technology cannot take on the Dark Angel.”

-“We each have a story to tell.  The story is not like anybody else’s story.  Not exactly.  And the narrator telling the story is like no other narrator.  When each of us looked into our mother’s eyes, each of us saw something different.  Completely unique.”

 -“Writing a novel will be the hardest thing you’ll ever do.” –Tom Spanbauer