Barthelmes Quotes & Sayings

We are the Captains of Spaceship Earth ... we have the capacity to overcome our limits. — Jason Silva

Is there any certainty like the Truth? — Lailah Gifty Akita

This evening I begin a notebook. If anyone reads this, I trust they will forgive my overuse of "I". I can't stop it. I'm writing this. — Jonathan Franzen

Oh, really? Do you wake up heaving from bloody dreams that
promise destruction like some crazy street guy forecasting the
Apocalypse? Did you slam a door in your dad's face hours before he died?
Does everyone, cops included, think you're a pestering loon 'cause
'accident' doesn't sit right with you, nor the many other freakouts, like
the car that keeps showing up on your street, with someone sitting in it,
doing like, nothing? No? Oh no? Didn't think so. Life sucks for everyone.
Jump or deal with it. — Courtney Vail

If we ask two questions, we will see that punishment never works. First: What do we want the other person to do? Second: What do we want the other person's reasons to be for doing as we request? — Marshall B. Rosenberg

It was morning, and the new sun sparkled gold across the ripples of a gentle sea. — Richard Bach

Neither this body am I, nor soul, Nor these fleeting images passing by, Nor concepts and thoughts, mental images, Nor yet sentiments and the psyche's labyrinth. Who then am I? A consciousness without origin, Not born in time, nor begotten here below. I am that which was, is and ever shall be, A jewel in the crown of the Divine Self, A star in the firmament of the luminous One. — Rumi

I am so full of my tongue you would think speaking is easy. but it is not. — Nayyirah Waheed

The more the other party thinks he's having his way, the easier always to get your own. — Jerome K. Jerome