When we feel the clown, when we have been played, if we have lived by heart, acted out of compassion, we are the substance of the play, rather than merely being played.
Tom Althouse
Related More than being human, we need peace and love. More than being strong and capable, we nee... NURUDEEN USHAWU If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... When we feel, a kind of lyric is sung in our heart. When we think, a kind of music is played i... TOBA BETA We have been friends together, In sunshine and in shade; Since first beneath the chestnut-tree... CAROLINE NORTON We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO The Manger of Incidentals " We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. ... JACK GILBERT A Litany for Survival For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon... AUDRE LORDE We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. I ca... W.B. YEATS We have eyes and we have nerveses We have tails we have teeth You'll all get what you dese... NEIL GAIMAN If we have never sought, we seek Thee now; Thine eyes burn through the dark, our only stars; EDWARD SHILLITO We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a <... KAMAND KOJOURI When Mathematics unfold through Origamis, when video games target Medicine and Education, NATASHA TSAKOS The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN This is a day of celebration! Today, we are divorcing the past and marrying the present. KAMAND KOJOURI How little we understand of the gifts we have been given or the shape of the path we ... HARLEY KING there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... Life can be a process of observing what we are interfering with, rather than interfering w... LUJAN MATUS We are rats We're quicker than cats And we're twice as clever Don't need shoes ... JAMES FRANCIS WILKINS When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. RUMI We can reject everything else: religion, ideology, all received wisdom. But we cannot escape th... DALAI LAMA XIV Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow ge... JIM MORRISON This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfe... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE when we were kids laying around the lawn on our bellies we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived How well we have loved<... JACK KORNFIELD If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve bu... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE kisses explode when... someone believes in me when my heart cries out ... SANOBER KHAN We Have a Chance To Save Lives If We Don't Take It We May Regret It Like We Did<... WIDAD AKREYI As soon as we are born we hide God in ourselves. We then spend our lives looking for Him<... KAMAND KOJOURI We have bigger houses but smaller families: We have more degrees but less sense; more knowled... DALAI LAMA It started when we were little kids. Free spirits, but already tormented by our own hands<... ANTHONY KIEDIS Heart beats are marching like thousands of drums, Birds find their flight, thrown out of nest,<... ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC The Hero Path We have not even to risk the adventure alone for the heroes of ... JOSEPH CAMPBELL If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. CRAIG GROESCHEL Truth And if sun comes How shall we greet him? Shall we not dread him,... GWENDOLYN BROOKS Let’s get out of here.” “Where are we going?” “You’ll see. BECCA FITZPATRICK No Difference Small as a peanut, Big as a giant, We're all the same size W... SHEL SILVERSTEIN If we can forgive what has been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to oth... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I walked across an empty land I knew the pathway like the back of my hand I felt the earth... BIL KEANE We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back T.S. ELIOT When your soul and mine have left our bodies and we are burried alongside each other, OMAR KHAYYáM We are broken. Our ways are apart. Still we laugh together and taunt. We fight and get hur... IRFA ADAM I’d rather be a heart, keeping my body alive and well although I tend to get lost someti... HKL We should not blame people by the mistakes of others. DANIEL MELGAçO A lot we have in our head, But things of heart are not yet dead, They have done none, but ... NUMEY a lot of times we are angry at other people for not doing what we should have done fo... RUPI KAUR You will have memories Because of what we did back then When we were new at this, SAPPHO I think that's what we all want, in the end. To know that we left footprints when we passed by,... MIKE A. LANCASTER Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Life by life and love by love We passed through the cycles strange, And breath by breath and... LANGDON SMITH The Sunlight on the Garden The sunlight on the garden Hardens and grows cold, W... LOUIS MACNEICE Some times in our lives, we all have pain, we all have sorrow. But, if we are wise, we know that... AL GREEN What will happen if we go to 0 day? ... Everything has been wipe out from the techno... DEYTH BANGER O smile, going where? O upturned look: new, warm, receding surge of the heart--; alas, we ... RAINER MARIA RILKE ...and when we die we die alone I cry, I cry alone Like a piece of stone I am... MUNIA KHAN We are relentless. We don't compromise grace. But when we hunt, we're vicious. FRIDA R. Now faith is not what we hereafter have we have a world resting on nothing Rest... SUSAN HOWE Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woe... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is ... SWAMI DHYAN GITEN True gratitude can never come From the mind. It has to flow from the heart To the min... SRI CHINMOY When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI People, like us we feel... too deeply consumed, in shadow this game of chance. T... BEV FLYNN why is it that when the story ends we begin to feel all of it RUPI KAUR I am a sailor, you're my first mate We signed on together, we coupled our fate Hauled up... JOHN MCDERMOTT It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse- That we who lived by honest dre... C. DAY LEWIS Our bodies knock and we pretend like we can't hear They knock to tell us to ... MALEBO SEPHODI The heart that gives thanks is a happy one, for we cannot feel thankful and unhappy at the same time... DOUGLAS WOOD ...It’s hard to watch the game we make of love, like everyone’s playing checkers ... ANDREA GIBSON We should not shed tears That is a surrender of the body to the heart It is only proof TITE KUBO When words run dry, he does not try, nor do I. We are on par. He jus... LANG LEAV We have a weight to carry and a distance we must go. We have a weight to carry, a des... BOOK OF COUNTED SORROWS We did everything tonight but win on the scoreboard. I think we dominated a large portion of t... JEFF AGOOS there are some poems that we leave behind some that leave us behind while some ... SANOBER KHAN We grow old without knowing the reason. We build the walls for no good reason. We start th... ANTHONY T. HINCKS When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego, and when we escape like squirrels turning in t... D.H. LAWRENCE We have teeth and we have tails We have tails we have eyes We were here before you fell NEIL GAIMAN We are the music-makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers... ARTHUR O'SHAUGHNESSY and when we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard nor welcomed but when we ... AUDRE LORDE No matter how close, you are always too far My eyes are drawn everywhere you are. I... CORA CARMACK When we think of love, we always think of red, but when I think of love, I think of y... ANTHONY T HINCKS In the very end, all we have left to atone for our faults are words. KAMAND KOJOURI If we want hell, if we want heaven, they are ours. That's how love works. It... ROB BELL If we who have sailed together Flit out of each other's view, The world will sail on, I thin... WILL CARLETON When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a... BRENT M. JONES What We Want What we want is never simple. We move among the things LINDA PASTAN If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS It's ... ARNAZ BATTLE What is this thing you call substance abuse? All I wanna do is forget and get loose. Drin... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ I never named anything I've written before no reason to since it would all have the s... ALLY CONDIE The Weight of One Feather" Given. Many fear death Because they already SUZY KASSEM If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be ... THICH NHAT HANH COMPASSION ALERT: As we enter the Season of Goodwill - Feel the warm glow in your heart by ligh... KAMIL ALI It’s not that we have to quit this life one day, but it’s how many things we have to... ROMAN PAYNE We're nothing but human. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the w... ANONYMOUS I WANT her though, to take the same from me. She touches me as if I were herself, her own. D.H. LAWRENCE
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that always leaves
your feet cold
screenwriter of Dead Poets' Society. TOM SCHULMAN