Bill Holm Quotes

#1. Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death.

Leo Tolstoy

#2. Above me, wind does its best
to blow leaves off
the aspen tree a month too soon.
No use wind. All you succeed
in doing is making music, the noise
of failure growing beautiful.

Bill Holm

#3. Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.

Theodore Parker

#4. The first condition of success in magick is purity of purpose.

Aleister Crowley

#5. Honor and duty will ride upon my shoulders till the day I die, like the old man of the sea, who once picked up can never be put dow.

Simon R. Green

#6. We're keeping our ears alert for any sudden thumps in undusted corners.

Bill Holm

#7. But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really rooted for and also got across the girls' point of view, I've heard nothing but great things from younger and older females as well.

Jason Biggs

#8. We take too much credit for our effect on the world, whining about our misery and guilt, what others have done or not done to us.

Bill Holm

#9. The non-dual state shows the true oneness of all creatures in this universe.

Abhijit Naskar

#10. You held on to him In that forsaken bed He's distant, cold - Nothing else could be said.

Dawn Lanuza

#11. We all need new ideas, images, and experiences far more than we need new stoves or cars or computers.

Bill Holm

#12. Don't whine about your poverty and brainless labor. You can read, can't you? Get thee to a library and foment rebellion - in both inner and outer worlds.

Bill Holm

#13. I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

Veronica Roth

#14. How someone wants to explain catastrophe isn't important--that's what I know now. When shit happens, it doesn't really matter what asshole is responsible.

Catherine Lacey

#15. How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.

Bill Holm

#16. I do a couple of hundred press-ups a day but I haven't been to a gym in years.

Simon Cowell

#17. You must sit down to speak this language,
It is so heavy you can't be polite or chatter in it.
For once you have begun a sentence, the whole course of your life is laid out before you"
-quoted in "The Geography of Bliss

Bill Holm

#18. It's odd to see pictures of your parents before your own birth, before your nagging presence altered their lives forever.

Bill Holm

#19. Great pain, when it is honored from the heart, opens into great understanding.

Jack Kornfield

#20. Children judge each other harshly, but don't make nice distinctions among the grown.

Bill Holm

#21. It was beginning to occur to me that I was a little too in love with stereotypes and preconceptions.

Susan Juby

#22. However, I hope I am also judged on my accomplishments as an actor and not just on my pretty face!

Jonathan Brandis