Laurence Overmire Quotes

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.

Expect nothing and accept everything and you will never be disappointed.

Live with an open mind and an open heart. Always choose love over fear and kindness over cruelty.

There is no nobler profession, nor no greater calling, than to be among those unheralded many who gave and give their lives to the preservation of human knowledge, passed with commitment and care from one generation to the next.

War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.

Over the course of the millennia, all these ancestors in your tree, generation upon generation, have come down to this moment in time-to give birth to you. There has never been, nor will ever be, another like you. You have been given a tremendous responsibility. You carry the hopes and dreams of all those who have gone before. Hopes and dreams for a better world. What will you do with your time on this Earth? How will you contribute to the ongoing story of humankind?

Apathy is the slow poison coursing through the body politic that paves the way to tyranny.

The people who change the world never lose hope no matter how bleak the outcome might appear to be.

To listen to the silence is to hear the heartbeat of the Universe.

You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

We are the last generation with a real opportunity to save the world.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

The future is won or lost in the war of ideas.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

Orwell couldn't see that Big Brother would not be The State, but The Corporation.

There are some who dream their lives away, but end up doing nothing, and others who do their lives away, and end up never dreaming.

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.

Life is a poem most people never read.

Welcome to the figurative world of poetry where nothing is 'real,' but everything matters.

Real life is never quite as interesting as the story told afterward.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize.

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Americans think anything you do not get paid for is not worth doing. As a consequence, the things that don't get done are often the most worthwhile.

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Prose pretends to be straightforward in its application to the truth, but truth itself is a dissembler. Poetry, much more honest, knows the deception can't be overcome.