The beat generation is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on.
I pretty much started out writing full time. I was an at-home mom and when my youngest entered kindergarten, I started writing. I was 35, and before that I really hadn't written at all. Which means, I guess, that a) it's never too late to start a writing career (or any career you really want) and b) it's OK to get to your mid-30s and still not know what you want to be when you grow up.
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.
Don't worry about finding your bliss right now. Not even our President knew what his bliss was, nor did I. One of these days to your own surprise, your bliss will find you. But no matter what you do, participate, be there, full force, full heart, full steam ahead.
An unhurried mind brings the capacity to make wise choices every day - choices of how we use our time, of where we place our resources and our love. I am not just talking about avoiding the rat race, but about a life full of an artistic beauty - a life that has almost vanished from modern civilization, but is quite within the reach of everyone.
The time passes so quickly during these full and active middle years that most people arrive at the end of middle age and the beginning of later maturity with surprise and a sense of having finished the journey while they were still preparing to commence it.
Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.
The world is full of abandoned meanings. In the commonplace I find unexpected themes and intensities.
The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.
The Bible is full of ordinary people who went to impossible places and did wondrous things simply because they decided to obey God.
Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Maybe "having enough" has a second meaning beyond the basic economic security a family needs. Maybe it means accepting that a rich full life with a job and family will be rewarding, but it certainly won't be perfect. As many of us who have combined kids and careers know all too well, some days it's really pretty messy. And that's OK.
There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.
For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy
What region of the earth is not full of our calamities?
Partial justice may exist with hatred; full justice requires charity.
In a way, you are poetry material; You are full of cloudy subtleties I am willing to spend a lifetime figuring out. Words burst in your essence and you carry their dust in the pores of your ethereal individuality.
To overthrow the power of the bourgeoisie and to establish the power of the proletariat in one country still does not signify the full victory of Socialism.
Gotta head full of ideas that are driving me insane.