Vanna bonta quotes

Any leader who doesn't support the heart of evolving humanity is not a leader worthy of being followed.

The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind's focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.

People at large are becoming more aware that there is much more to reality and to themselves than what meets the eye.

Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.

Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.

Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.

Which came first - the observer or the particle?

You never read about the real pain. It lives where no word can travel.

How do we define consciousness, or what has been called the human soul or the spirit, if it can't be quantified as matter or a particle?.. It can be quantified or observed just by a process of elimination.

I'm not an intellectual, I'm just a writer.

Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it's a system of trade, but it's not my purpose and reason for living.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)

Pay me for my work, but I don't do it for the money.

There are infinite possibilities.

The height of mediocrity is still low.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.

Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you.

The body knows no pain, not like the soul. At least a nerve has limits, a body part a name. But the soul... the soul... There is no bandage - even crying is in vain.

Our lives are fictions, a work we leave behind, signed.

Why have a cake if I can't eat it?

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them - to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

Hot air expands, and seriously pompous attitude is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

What appears to us solid is ultimately both a particle and a wavelength, and on that realm everything behaves as both a particle and a wave.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Thought has no gender.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Hate: return to sender; address unknown.

The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.

Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.

Some animals on Earth regurgitate as opposed to vomit, i.e., stomach contents flow up into the esophagus without any forceful abdominal contractions. What I experienced in zero gravity was similar to this, expulsion without the heaves.

Fame is not the glory! Virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger, to bring more to the fold.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

If form follows function, as we know it does in this Universe, then consciousness will adapt to whatever form it requires in order to function. Hopefully, it will also develop its fundamental function; what that is may be debatable within many schools of thought, but it is indisputable that evolved thinking recognizes the universality of Life.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.

Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it's by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.

A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it's about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Events, time, forms, all propel the inner plot within each of us.

The impact of space activities is nothing less than the galvanizing of hope and imagination for human life continuum into a future of infinite possibility.

Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.

A poet's first contract is with truth.

The illusion is we are only physical.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

Our neighborhood - this solar system, the cosmos, actually - is so much more vast and amazing than the paltry headlines, insanity, and politics crammed at us daily as so-called news. The beauty of the hood and discoveries that await us are deserving of our attention and mandatory to our survival as a species.

The realm of quanta is how I have intrinsically approached and viewed reality since I was born.

Fear plants the whisper to beware but doesn't look to see who's there.

Little did the artist know, who neglected his appearance in favor of his work, that the years would produce a breed that spent hours meticulously acquiring a neglected look to appear like an artist.

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

Slander is the tool of cowards.

When we love there is no reason why.

Style of the future is the convergence of function and fashion.

There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Words are contact with other beings. I see a word that says something I've noticed, seen, felt, obserevd, and I capture it; "I need that word!"

Love is the eternal first breath.

Recognition of one's fellows is distorted when money is prioritized as value itself.

Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Language achieves soul only when it's applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Money is only a human invention.

The true poem rests between the words.

Leaders in all realms and activities of life knew that the power they had come to hold existed because they were responsible to serve the many, thus power was position of service.

Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.

To the degree it is efficient, a spaceship is elegant and beautiful.

Each character is an allegory for every aspect of human existence.

My body is an avatar.

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.

Don't count your check-ins before they cash.

Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

If you were the sky, I would unfurl myself in you, as a rainbow of colors yet unseen. I would become oceans of stars in your night.

Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

How can I follow my heart when it's waiting around for the rest of me to make the decision?

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Pure at heart: to be like a flower that blooms as gloriously, brilliantly in a secluded wild wood, not seen and praised.

Love is a quality, not a quantity.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage.

To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.

The only sins are violations of Love.

Pythagorean thought was dominated by mathematics, but it was also profoundly mystical.

It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.

We've been there on World Wars, it's time for World Party I.

Anger is a wound gone mad.

'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.

When we can build something like the Hubble telescope and fathom images of this vast cosmos of which we are a part, it really gives pause to wonder what and who we are within a larger framework than linear adventures at the shopping mall and taxes.

Our true enemies are: ignorance and limitation.

Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.

Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?

Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.

Everything solid was first an idea.

The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.

There is direct correlation between a society lacking in artistic vision to lack of social conscience, i.e., crime, poverty, and senseless, violent atrocities, materialism.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

Do it right, regret nothing.

We call interconnected order beautiful. When interrupted, we call it chaos.

We are the ancestors of those gardening the universe.

The primary dues a writer or any artist pays is to remain sentient, and to forfeit the illusionary luxury of such anesthetics as avoidance, numbness, and denials.

The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.

Always is no Time at all.

I'm in love with the whole world.

Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.

Any time a body goes outside the environmental conditions for which it developed it has to acclimate.

Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.

My primary motivation for writing is to communicate my perceptions and insights into the human condition, in a way that may provide understanding, comfort, and company to others.

The category "Women Poets" is bizarre and irrelevant. It's a subcategory of Poets, but there is not a "Men Poets" category.

You are not going to find yourself anywhere except right where you are.

Penalty is different than punishment, because it offers something with which to regain honor.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

The stars are not the limit.

Essentially 'Flight' is just an adventure of multiple realities.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

Patience is being friends with Time.

Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you'll never be torn.