B99 Caleb Quotes

#1. A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#2. We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

John O'Donohue

#3. When a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn't good for a person to be alone.

Donald Miller

#4. I wanted a line in a poem to be the hollow ney of the dervish orchestra whose plaintive wail is a call to God. But all I achieved was awkward shrieking. Not even the pure shriek of a reed in the rain.

Anne Michaels

#5. Say it isn't true
That there always has been and always will be war
Say it isn't true
And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for
Say it isn't true
There always has been and always will be war

Jackson Browne

#6. I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Tom Robbins

#7. Fiction means never letting the pure truth get in the way of a good story.

Nathaniel Robert Winters

#8. If you have never seen a masterpiece, look in the mirror.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. We have had triumphs, we have made mistakes, we have had sex.

George H. W. Bush