Quotes of Chris Van Allsburg

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The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

- Chris Van Allsburg

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“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ Life is a game and true love is a trophy. ”

- Rufus Wainwright

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ What if it becomes less about how we look and more about how much we care? What if it becomes less about how much money we earn and more about how much we share our good fortune? Imagine a world where who we are in our hearts is the ultimate status symbol. ”

- Amy Leigh Mercree

“ Living with a purpose in life is more fulfilling than living a rich lifestyle without a purpose. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ and then I look deep into your eyes and we melt into each other and enjoy that melting, like those things that belong together... (fragment from Passion beneath, chapter Passion) ”

- Claudia Pavel

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ What you meet in another being is the projection of your own level of evolution. ”

- Ram Dass

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Some symbols reach to your primordial archives. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ We need hearts with restored empathy And homes with restored hope ”

- Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

“ Those who complain about being constrained in their job and life should ask themselves one simple question. Are you constrained by chains or in your own mind? ”

- RJ Intindola

“ Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great. ”

- Niccolo Machiavelli

“ Anything under God's control is never out of control. ”

- Charles Swindoll

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Take wrong turns. Talk to strangers. Open unmarked doors. And if you see a group of people in a field, go find out what they are doing. Do things without always knowing how they'll turn out. You're curious and smart and bored, and all you see is the choice between working hard and slacking off. There are so many adventures that you miss because you're waiting to think of a plan. To find them, look for tiny interesting choices. And remember that you are always making up the future as you go. ”

- Randall Munroe

“ I thought it (love) meant like you hold out your hand and someone takes it, holds it hard, and pulls you safe from the river. You talk. You tell him bits of yourself. You say here's where I hurt and you give it to him and he holds it and gives you where he hurts in return and you hold it and that's how you learn to love. ”

- Elizabeth George

“ When you know my love, my love will warm you. ”

- Ruby Dee

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ”

- Kyle Chandler

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ Anything I ever did for a person was out of love, nobody can ever finesse me. ”

- Genereux Philip