W.J. Cameron Quotes
The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.
Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.
God does not give us more than we can handle, " I am told but I wonder if God doesn't overestimate me just a little. Or perhaps, and this is likely, I underestimate God.
All was in God's plan, and he had to accept even as he didn't understand.
Why do men have nipples? Because God is a woman and she really wants us to enjoy ourselves, that's why.
Physical strength doesn't mean a damn thing when you're all cut up and bleeding inside.
I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.
And I sometimes think that a moment of touching is the difference between complete utter despair and the ability to carry on.
Perhaps love and hope are one and the same.
Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.
Each of us has an inner dream that we can unfold if we will just have the courage to admit what it is. And the faith to trust our own admission. The admitting is often very difficult.
I’ve learned to fall like the BJJ player, to protect the body through controlling the distribution of force by slapping the mat with hands open. With hands open. Hands open. Open. O Pen.
Stories do not change, only the lives they live in do.
Like forearm veins, my interests spread in different directions and eventually led to the hands, to writing.
If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.
It’s cool when fashion recycles itself, it’s not cool when sustainable living does because it means there was (and is as I write) a period of absolute and possibly irreversible destruction.
How can I stand before you in silent symbols with open palms?
I'm going to take a shower, " I said and prepared for the comment I knew was coming. "You know what they say, conserve water and shower with a friend.
Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.
But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.
The only true currency in this bankrupt world are the moments you share with someone when you're uncool.
War is food and drink and disease and patience and anger and hate and cold and stealth and terror as well as sweet silver and bitter iron and the glitter of arms in the sun or under the moon.
A dead war horse is the single most expensive corpse you’ll ever see.
Everything is beautiful in its own way, ma belle, even if you have to look hard to find it.
Fame is not the same as success, and in our true souls we know that.
Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
Art is not about thinking something up. It is about the opposite—getting something down.
History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.
The more inhuman we became the more we understood each other as humans.
We were of thirteen minds, like a tree, in which there is one Red-tail and eleven squirrel parts.
...real childhood scars heal, but not when band-aids replace self-reflection.
All other things held constant, to the extent that an individual or society sees, believes in, and acts in abundance, so will it have wealth and happiness.
The universe has more than enough business and wealth for everyone—way more than enough.
I didn’t want anybody seeing my fire until I burned them with it.
Well, what's reality, then? Is it what I think or what other people think?
How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn’t I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin?Excerpt From: Cameron Jace. “.
She actually isn't so bad, now that I'm getting to know her. She's just a little messy on the outside. But aren't we all?
His smile is beautiful. It's the kind of smile that can take away all nervousness and tension in a room, no matter how big. I have no choice but to smile back.
Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.
But no matter what you do to postpone it, the future always shows up at your door.