We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.
– Kilroy J Oldster
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- At the dockside I was pleasantly surprised to find the North wasn’t all hairy men in animal skins. There was also hairy women in animal skins. – Mark Lawrence
- Think outside of the box. Work outside of the box. Dream outside of the box. Succeed outside of the box. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality. – Kilroy J Oldster
- We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life. – Tennessee Williams
- A person must cultivate their personal tutelary spirit in order to achieve their ultimate visage. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A person must move beyond guilt and unexamined thoughts and motives in order to discover a purpose for living vibrantly. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside. – Idowu Koyenikan
- Once a month, for one evening, we are free to wear our natural skins. We are on the outside as we are internally. – DR Hedge
- Authentic people are so comfortable in their own skins they make us more comfortable in our own. – Susan C Young
- The human spirit’s unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Art for art’s sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own. (1804) – Benjamin Constant
- Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you’ll be so close as to be living inside each other’s skins. – Lois McMaster Bujold
- Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Large families are communities unto their own. – Kilroy J Oldster
- We can only come to terms with our own place in the world by compassionately commiserating with the pang of longing that our brethren experience. – Kilroy J Oldster
- We nurture our own being by respecting all people and consciously working to mitigate the pain of the world. – Kilroy J Oldster
- We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A person must be in tune with the light and dark forces of their nature and remain in harmony with the bands of their own multivariate being. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Life’s most precious moments are not all loud or uproarious. Silence and stillness has its own virtues. – Kilroy J Oldster
- The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world. – Kilroy J Oldster
- When the two become the oneAnd the inside outside, the outside inSo that the male be not male nor the female femaleThen will you see me. – Wesley Stace
- Always look outside of the box, unless there is something exceedingly dangerous outside of the box in which case it might be wiser to stay inside. – Holly Wujcik
- Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn
- The interior of our skulls contains a portal to infinity. – Grant Morrison
- I believe in steel swords, gold coins, and man’s wits. (…) And I believe there once were dragons. I’ve seen their skulls, after all. – George RR Martin
- …You say you don’t mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom – Hell is paved with priests’ skulls…. – John Geddes
- I’m not sure how people drink out of skulls,- Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup. – Sage Blackwood
- I’m not sure how people drink out of skulls,- Jinx added. Calvin had too many holes in him to make a good cup. – Sage Blackwood
- The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. – Ryan Lilly
- In order to know the world from the outside, you must know yourself from the inside. – Steven Cuoco
- The world is not to be put in order. The world is order. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order. – Henry Miller
- We must forget in order to remain present, forget in order not to die, forget in order to remain faithful. – Marc Aug
- I’m an artist. I’m an artist and I’m going to make art! Art arty art art. – Andy Beirsack
- A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire. – Kilroy J Oldster
- A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Nature blessed every person with the innate capacity to express wonder and awe for the eternal world and act with a kind and unstinting soul. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Self-questioning and a desire to gain self-understanding is the fêted act of humankind. – Kilroy J Oldster
- Death does not mark the end of a chapter in a man’s life, but the end of a book of man, the beautiful conclusion to his yearnings. – Kilroy J Oldster