Lew Welch Quotes

#1. It was only by following the course time prescribed that we could hasten through the gigantic spaces separating us from each other.

W.G. Sebald

#2. Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight.

Lew Welch

#3. I'd rather do something I love badly than to feel bad about not doing something I love.

Sylvester Stallone

#4. We invent ourselves out of ingredients we didn't choose, by a process we can't control.

Lew Welch

#5. Step out onto the Planet. Draw a circle a hundred feet round. Inside the circle are 300 things nobody understands, and, maybe nobody's ever really seen. How many can you find?

Lew Welch

#6. The power is neutral. It cannot be divided into positive and negative energies. Power is power.

Scott Cunningham

#7. THE BASIC CON

Those who can't find anything to live for,
always invent something to die for.
Then they want the rest of us to
die for it, too.

Lew Welch

#8. A lot of people say no matter what, but how many people actually experience no matter what? No matter what will fill up your head with a real mess.

Aaron Starmer

#9. ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

Lew Welch

#10. At my age, I should not be afraid of anything - certainly not my own past.

Kristin Hannah

#11. The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day.

Lew Welch

#12. Christ, will I ever find someone who is not crying inside?

Lew Welch

#13. It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Tony Robbins

#14. Google is so my bitch

Hannah Harrington