Quotes by John Geddes

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...you want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you’re wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don’t seem to care...

John Geddes

... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...

John Geddes

... the house is on fire, but go ahead - finish painting the verandah...

John Geddes

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...

John Geddes

...you either forgive a lover for abandoning you or you forgive God for taking them - either way you have to forgive...

John Geddes

...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...

John Geddes

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

John Geddes

...there's the suffering from love and the suffering from grief - either pain permanently scars the soul...

John Geddes

...you must never partly love or stop half way - because then, you become superficial and cannot be deeply hurt or loved...

John Geddes

...beneath torrents of spring rain, buds come to life - and we do too, beneath torments of tears...

John Geddes

...all winter the acorns and red Maple leaf moldered in silence - in the same way grief is gnawing at me - slowly, imperceptibly... consuming...

John Geddes

...the most beautiful things don't always make you happy - often they make you weep...

John Geddes

...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...

John Geddes

...some people won't even own a dog for fear it will die - you can't bubble-wrap your heart...

John Geddes

...you merely look at me and I want to confess, but don't - I've buried my heart under the floor boards, but you always dig it up...

John Geddes

...you listen first with the ears - then, you wait and listen for what your heart feels - then you consider what they've said - then, you reply ...

John Geddes

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

John Geddes

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

John Geddes

... your heart is your soul twinkling in the black firmament inside you...

John Geddes

...the religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...

John Geddes

...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...

John Geddes