Jessica E Stone - randomstuff

The river is famous to the fish.

The loud voice is famous to silence,
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.

The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.

The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.

The idea you carry close your bosom
is famous to your bosom.

The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.

The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it
and is not at all famous to the one who is pictured.

I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.

I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.

~Naomi Nye

One must always have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

~Friedrich Nietzsche

There is no system. There is only nature. My lifelong concern has been how to get even closer...to the nature of creativity.
~Konstantin Stanislasky

It is an actor's passion to observe the world. It is his art to become what he observes. And finally it is his job to let the world observe him.
~R. Corliss

I am a daisy in a Tiffany box.

I am a kitten with a lion's heart.

Pressing my nose against the glass.

I like things the way I like things, and I think you'll like them that way too.

Girl Scouts make the best kissers.

Leaping in with both feet.

I enjoy being a girl. So fuck off already.

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Our greatest fear is not that we are inadequate,
but that we are powerful beyond measure.

It is our light - not our darkness - that frightens us.

We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant,
gorgeous, talented, fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?

You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There's nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.

We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It is not just in some - it is in everyone.
And, as we let our own light shine,
we consciously give others permission to do the same.

As we are liberated from our fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.

-from his 1994 inaugural speech

Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence.
Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.
Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.
Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.
Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
-Calvin Coolidge