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Quote Left Morning Is Yellow Like A Desk Is Square He always wanted to explain things. But no one cared. So he drew. Sometimes he would draw and it wasn't anything. He wanted to carve it in stone or write it in the sky. He would lie out on the grass and look up in the sky. And it would be only him and the sky and the things inside him that needed saying. And it was after that he drew the picture. It was a beautiful picture. He kept it under his pillow and would let no one see it. And he would look at it every night and think about it. And when it was dark, and his eyes were closed, he could still see it. And it was all of him. And he loved it. When he started school he brought it with him. Not to show anyone, but just to have with him like a friend. It was funny about school. He sat in a square brown desk Like all the other square brown desks And he thought it should be red And his room was a square brown room. Like all the other rooms. And it was tight and close. And stiff. He hated to hold the pencil and chalk, With his arm stiff and his feet flat on the floor. Stiff. With the teacher watching and watching. The teacher came and spoke to him. She told him to wear a tie like all the other boys. He said he didn't like them. And she said it didn't matter. After that they drew. And he drew all yellow and it was the way he felt about morning. And it was beautiful. The teacher came and smiled at him. 'What's this?' she said. 'Why don't you draw something like Ken's drawing? Isn't it beatiful?' After that his mother bought him a tie. And he always drew airplanes and rocket ships like everyone else. And he threw the old picture away. And when he lay alone looking at the sky, It was big and blue and all of everything, But he wasn't anymore. He was square inside. And brown. And his hands were stiff. And he was like everyone else. And the things inside him that needed saying didn't need it anymore. It had stopped pushing. It was crushed. Stiff. Like everything else. Quote Right
Quote Left Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for. Quote Right
Quote Left Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. Quote Right
Quote Left Another kind of love and compassion is not based on something appearing beautiful or nice, but based on the fact that the other person, just like oneself, wants happiness and does not want suffering and indeed has every right to be happy and to overcome suffering. On such a basis, we feel a sense of responsibility, a sense of closeness toward that being. That is true compassion. This is because the compassion is based on reason, notjust on emotional feeling. As a consequence, it does not matter what the other's attitude is, whether negative, or positive. What matters is that it is a human being, a sentient being that has the experience of pain and pleasure. There is no reason not to feel compassion so long as it is a sentient being. Quote Right
Quote Left Traditional matter must be glorified, since it would be easier to listen to the re-creation of familiar stories than to quite new and unexpected things; the listeners, we must remember, needed poetry chiefly as the re-creation of tired hours. Quote Right
Quote Left The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible, no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office. Quote Right
Quote Left No matter how hard it is, true love is also the result of an accident in the dream of our life, and that accident is an event that happens in our soul. This event can be in another transcendental reality a volcano, a butterfly, a mountain or any other possible image we cannot even imagine. Quote Right
Quote Left No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful? by Quote Right
Quote Left If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and description of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them. A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success. Quote Right
Quote Left No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. Quote Right
Quote Left Two hours is about as long as any American can wait for the close of a baseball game, or anything else for that matter. Quote Right
Quote Left Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. Quote Right
Quote Left But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it! Quote Right
Quote Left In view of all this, I have no doubt that Cambyses was completely out of his mind; it is the only possible explanation of his assault upon, and mockery of, everything which ancient law and custom have made sacred in Egypt. If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably, after careful consideration of their relative merits, choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best; and that being so, it is unlikely that anyone but a madman would mock at such things. There is abundant evidence that this is the universal feeling about the ancient customs of one's country. One might recall, in particular, an anecdote of Darius. When he was king of Persia, he summoned the Greeks who happened to be present in his court, and asked them what they would take to eat the dead bodies of their fathers. They replied that they would not do it for any money in the world. Later, in the presence of the Greeks, and through an interpreter, so that they could understand what was said, he asked some Indians, of the tribe called the Callatiae, who do in fact eat their parents' dead bodies, what they would take to burn them. They uttered a cry of horror and forbade him to mention such a dreadful thing. One can see by this what custom can do, and Pindar, in my opinion, was right when he called it king of all. Quote Right
Quote Left In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. Quote Right
Quote Left As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything. Quote Right
Quote Left The money doesn't even matter. I love the people. It feels like family here. This is my family. This is home. Quote Right
Quote Left A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more? Quote Right
Quote Left Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism. Quote Right
Quote Left Poetry is a matter of life, not just a matter of language. Quote Right
Quote Left And we, inhabitants of the great coral of the Cosmos, believe the atom (which still we cannot see) to be full matter, whereas, it too, like everything else, is but an embroidery of voids in the Void, and we give the name of being, dense and even eternal, to that dance of inconsistencies, that infinite extension that is identified with absolute Nothingness and that spins from its own non-being the illusion of everything. Quote Right
Quote Left Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who matter don't mind, and those that mind, don't matter. Quote Right
Quote Left Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can determine their controversies by any certain witnesses, nor judges. But as long as they go towards peace, that is Truth, it is no matter which way. Quote Right
Quote Left The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. Quote Right
Quote Left Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them. Quote Right
Quote Left Let us be very careful not to fall into the trap of the world. The world views things only relative to man and to self. The Word of God views things relative to the Father, Son, and Spirit. Mankind is not the center of all things. No matter how great anyone's name might become, it is still far behind His. Our name comes from His life the name of our Lord comes from the resurrection--the event unique to Him. The world has a problem it seeks to honor, uphold, exonerate and generally praise itself. Our place and the place of the entire world system is to praise and exalt God. When people of the Bible caught a glimpse of Him, their lives were changed. Perhaps our lives remain stagnate because we do not spend enough time looking at Him. Quote Right
Quote Left He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog. Quote Right
Quote Left Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can't prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you're presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power. Quote Right
Quote Left Westerners inherit A design for living Deeper into matter— Not without due patter Of a great misgiving. Quote Right
Quote Left Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol, morphine or idealism. Quote Right
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Member Quotes About Matter

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Quote Left Everyone has struggles, challenges, or problems. What matters is how they handle it and how they manage. Quote Right
Quote Left Nobody is perfect. No matter how calm, collected, or "perfect" they look. When you know that you have flaws and you work on them, that is what makes you better. Quote Right
Quote Left When loving someone is no longer a choice, You have found the one person that was made for you and only you. Don't take a love like that for granted, no matter how much work has to be put in to it for it to last. Anything perfectly beautiful isn't easily obtained. Quote Right
Quote Left “I’m not quiet because I have nothing to say — I’m quiet because I want what I say to matter.” Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing comes to mind the moment your mind tries to remember, no matter how hard you squeeze your eyes or twitch your nose, but exactly how a random word pops into your mind to magically fit the line in your poem, who knows. Quote Right
Quote Left In the absence of proactive measures to abjure the foreseen, to mitigate any risk thereof, actions become reactionary at best, and matters that should lie within the realm of great certainty instead assume the guise of crisis. Quote Right
Quote Left Adversity has a way of bringing everything into focus. A way of distilling what matters from the detritus of our everyday lives. Quote Right
Quote Left If you say, life is only for a moment, I respond, it is for a moment, rejecting 'only'. The moment matters. Quote Right
Quote Left “Some people prefer raw poems whilst some prefer polished poems. It doesn’t really matter because all poems, like all manifested thought comes from the Godhead. He-She creates without judgment.” ©GhairoDanielsQuotes Quote Right
Quote Left ON PRÉSENCE & AWAKENING “Presence is ungraspable, fleeting. It subsides as soon as it arises. When we wake up, we wake up to Presence. It is unstoppable, our eternal Truth. It matters not what we look like, do or wear - these are conditioned illusions of the mind. In the final analysis we are all presentations of Presence.” Quote Right
Quote Left Forgetting is more sophisticated than remembering. Humans are the animals that mastered abstraction. Abstraction is forgetting what does not matter. Quote Right
Quote Left What matters is what you will think about in the last thirty minutes of your life. It won't be your sound system. Quote Right
Quote Left Time only matters when it runs out. Quote Right
Quote Left "Trees are the proof of this truth: - No matter how many times I am broken, I will bloom again and again. Bound to my roots, I will touch the sky, Fighting with every breath, turning every wound into greenery." Quote Right
Quote Left We are all broken, what we do with the pieces that what really matters. Quote Right
Quote Left If one is dark inside, it will be that way no matter where one goes, or who one is with. Quote Right
Quote Left We all have faced arduous moments, yet such matters divulge the depths of life and it shall not be seen as a challenge rather fulfilling and rewarding one’s consciousness, existence and reality. Quote Right
Quote Left The Unborn Human, Not Just A Small Matter, But As A Of Fact; A Matter Of A God Given Right to the Miracle Of Life. Choose Life. Quote Right
Quote Left I am proof that no matter how many times life knocks you down, you can always rise again stronger, wiser, and more determined to turn every scar into a story worth sharing. Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing we see is as it really is...as Christ saw, and saw us, His brothers and sisters. Love is truth...Love is all that should matter...but there are two kinds of passion, both good and evil. Love not vanity...for it is evil. Quote Right
Quote Left “The devil creeps ever more close, and he stabs me so he knows- how close I am to death indeed. And no matter how my poems plead- he likes to sit and watch me bleed.” Quote Right
Quote Left Nothing matters but the facts. Without them, the science of criminal investigation is nothing more than a guessing game. – Blake Edwards Quote Right
Quote Left Degrees alone do not make a good counselor -- but to start from a position of love, is what ultimately matters most. Quote Right
Quote Left I believe that the act of sitting down and truly expressing your emotions is far more therapeutic than wasting time on things that will only lead to regret. Pursue what you love, no matter the challenges—it’s the only path to genuine fulfillment. Quote Right
Quote Left The quantity or quality of your friends doesn't matter but rather; What matter is, are they nourishing and draining you or replenishing and perishing you. Be observant if you want to grow. Quote Right
Quote Left Never forget: Whatever or whosoever is genuinely above you can never be below you no matter how manipulative you are; What is built with integrity or with awareness is always a masterpiece not to be disputed or limited. Quote Right
Quote Left Lies... No matter how beautifully coasted or presented, the truth always prevails over it because time always unveil it all, it never lies. Quote Right
Quote Left Freewill is not a free-pass to do harm. We must take care though, no matter how deeply felt our sense of values -- neither politicians nor priests should be dictators. No easy fix. By example, to live Christ...the only way. Quote Right
Quote Left What muscles does, the mind makes easier... Mind over matter and heart over mind. Quote Right
Quote Left Paradox of Extremes If you have everything then you have nothing. If have nothing but love then you have everything. It matters not the collection of materialistic things, they don’t satisfy. Spiritual gathering of friends and loved ones will be your treasure. In this the moment of your life, it will become eternal. Quote Right
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