Valvekens Oogarts Quotes & Sayings

The ancient intuition that all matter, all "reality," is energy, that all phenomena, including time and space, are mere crystallizations of mind, is an idea with which few physicists have quarreled since the theory of relativity first called into question the separate identities of energy and matter. Today most scientists would agree with the ancient Hindus that nothing exists or is destroyed, things merely change shape or form; that matter is insubstantial in origin, a temporary aggregate of he pervasive energy that animates the electron. — Peter Matthiessen

Darkness tests stars,
but they shine.
Storms test trees,
but they stand.
Adversity tests the great,
but they soar. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Every song you write you think is the last one you're going to manage. You put everything you've got into the song, and you've twisted it and pulled at it and dug in and found a way to complete it. To get another one is the trick. — Jakob Dylan

Sometimes you just want someone to sit on the couch and watch a movie with. — Darnell Lamont Walker

No man is as big as his own idea. — Ray Bradbury

With the novels, I usually start from something in my own life that I can't resolve, so I turn it into a metaphor and for months or sometimes years I'll exhaust all of my emotional reaction to this issue by making it enormous on the page. — Chuck Palahniuk

You know what it is you smell on him, Haven? Testosterone. It's leaking out of his pores. — Lisa Kleypas

Remember all ye that existence is pure joy; that all the sorrows are but as shadows; they pass & are done; but there is that which remains. — Aleister Crowley

A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error. — Benjamin Franklin