I Got My Life And It's My Only One

“Love is the best and the noblest thing in the human heart, especially when it is tested by life as gold is tested by fire. Happy is he who has loved much, and is sure of himself, and although he may have wavered and doubted, he has kept that divine spark alive and returned to what was in the beginning and ever shall be.”

A person doesn’t get it all at once, and most of those who have become something very good have gone through a long, difficult period of preparation that was the rock upon which their house was founded.

“I am not what I am, I am what I do with my hands.”

“One must accept the fact that others don’t see what you do.”

“Beauty? It seems to me that beauty is an example of what the philosopher’s call reification, to regard the abstraction as a thing. Beauty is a series of experiences. It is not a noun. People have experiences. If they feel an intense aesthetic pleasure, they take that experience and project it into the object. They experience the idea of beauty, but beauty in and of itself does not exist.”

“Space does not exist. It is just a metaphor for the structure of our existence.”

“You dig in your mind. We all dig for the truth. A cat will dig in the garden to hide its shit.”