A.A. Allen Quotes

Poets are damned… but see with the eyes of angels.

the sensation of trying to escape... but never being able to... i'm sure i felt that... that's... death

If I had a soul I sold itfor pretty wordsIf I had a body I usedit up spurting my essenceAllen Ginsberg warns youdont follow my pathto extinction

Another lover hits the universe. The circle is broken. But with death comes rebirth. And like all lovers and sad people, I am a poet.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies.And be it gash or gold it will not comeAgain in this identical disguise.

If you are on the Path, and see the Buddha walking toward you, kill him.

Did I ever tell you about the day I finally let go of him? That day that led me to you?

But relying on one person for your every need is so dangerous. One set of hands isn't enough to keep you from falling

Beyond reasonable doubt, the each of us possesses unique gifts, amazing abilities to help heal the world if we so choose.

California is a fine place to live, if you happen to be an orange.

We believed in the existence in this country of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price and staked everything on it.

What if one thing resonates with everybody, but it's not the same for anybody?

That’s how it is, day after day... night after night. The Moon chases her sunsets constantly, hoping for a mere glimpse. And for him, that was enough.

Freedom does that to people, he realizes. Once you've tasted it, ou never want to let go.

And maybe a few days of freedom would be better than a lifetime spent as a slave.

All I know about humour is that I don't know anything about it.

Please let's change subject, as despite the alliteration, I don't think Politics and Puddings go together.

Nice! There's no fun in nice. I'll be myself and you'll all love me for it.

Once upon a time, there was a Zen signat every small railway crossing in AmericaStop. Look. And listen.

We decided to become a society of women, a club to make sure women were protected. The club was something important back then. Not like it is today.

Jack thought anyone who read couldn't be all that bad.

The books I read when I was twenty completely changed when I read them when I was sixty.

Touch paper only once.

to love is to have ancient wounds exposed to vicious winds and be caressed instead of burned

I wasn't made with wings so I could fly away. So here I stand, fighting for a brighter day. That fight begins with me.

It's like driving a car with your foot on the brake.

Money tends to take on and maintain the characteristics in which it is acquired.

Science fiction deals with improbable possibilities, fantasy with plausible impossibilities.

Holy sea turtles!" - Arabella Valli, The Equinox (Book Two of the Summer Solstice Series)

If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go.

a group of people who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done

With great power often comes great confusion.

Even though she was powerful enough to kill, she could also grow flowers.

And when we have power- when you have power, Jae, you'll need to decide what to do with it. What kind of person you want to be. If you want to be like them.

Simply sailing in a new direction you could enlarge the world

Yellow joy was radiating from her. When you're happy for yourself, it fills you. When you're happy for someone else, it pours over. It was almost too bright to watch.

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.

Look, choosing to wait until marriage makes me feel empowered. But if the same choice cripples you, then it wasn't the right one.

It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company

We can live such a more abundant life when we simply embrace the journey as much as we desire the destination.

You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.

You receive a great number of rewards as soon as you begin creating something you dream of deep within your soul.

Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?

That level of responsibility drastically conflicts with my belief in self-preservation by inactivity.

When you start to make things happen, you really begin to believe that you can make things happen. And that makes things happen.

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

We struggle in life because our inner monologue prays....my will be done.

Love is fantasy....Life is reality

It was a remarkable realization to Eby, that we are what we're taught. That was why the Morris women were what they were. It was because they knew no different.

He stared up at the moon, which looked like a giant hole in the sky, letting light through to the other side.