Laurence Overmire Quotes

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Poetry is the art of using language to transcend language.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Life is a poem most people never read.

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

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

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.

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.

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

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

Recognizing your own ignorance is the first step toward wisdom.

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

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

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

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

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

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