John M. Geddes famous quotes

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

#Dog #Fear #Heart

Here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond: Not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed.
-- John M. Geddes

#Hurt #Mean #People

December's wintery breath is already clouding the pond, frosting the pane, obscuring summer's memory.
-- John M. Geddes

#Summer #Memories #Winter

Freshly cut Christmas trees smelling of stars and snow and pine resin - inhale deeply and fill your soul with wintry night.
-- John M. Geddes

#Christmas #Stars #Cutting

I pray this winter be gentle and kind - a season of rest from the wheel of the mind.
-- John M. Geddes

#Winter #Mind #Wheels

We fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves.
-- John M. Geddes

#Fear #Dark #Monsters

If you want your own distinctive voice, you first have to become someone.
-- John M. Geddes

#Voice #Want #Firsts

Authority is the unmistakeable tone in the voice of a true writer.
-- John M. Geddes

#Voice #Tone #Authority

I hear the sounds of melting snow outside my window every night and with the first faint scent of spring, I remember life exists
-- John M. Geddes

#Spring #Night #Snow

The religion of the heart is as intimate as a wish breathed to the night sky...
-- John M. Geddes

#Heart #Night #Sky

I make no apology about stirring the depths - every human longs to swim under water and see what lurks beneath
-- John M. Geddes

#Apology #Water #Swim

I love it when the dark bottle of night spills out, and the Moon writes in chalk about us.
-- John M. Geddes

#Writing #Dark #Moon

You think so logically... like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically... like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth.
-- John M. Geddes

#Fear #Thinking #Tails

I'm shy in person - so afraid to confess my love - I need a go-between - our mutual friend, the Moon.
-- John M. Geddes

#Fear #Moon #Needs

I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short.
-- John M. Geddes

#Fear #Opinion #Not Afraid

And not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now.
-- John M. Geddes

#Fear #Loneliness #Turns

...when we perfect 3-D copiers and they reproduce tissue, we'll have a million Marilyns walking around with no souls...
-- John M. Geddes

#Perfect #Soul #Tissues

...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
-- John M. Geddes

#Soul #Touching #Sensual

...dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field...
-- John M. Geddes

#Dark #Reflection #Orange

...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-- John M. Geddes

#Soulmate #Thinking #Hands

...ambition or contentment? This simple question led me back to a more balanced view of life and put me in touch with the Me I used to know...
-- John M. Geddes

#Ambition #Simple #Views

...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...
-- John M. Geddes

#Distance #Anger #Hands

...each heart is made of a different stone - no two feel alike nor break the same way ...
-- John M. Geddes

#Broken Heart #Two #Stones

...the winter is kind and leaves red berries on the boughs for hungry sparrows...
-- John M. Geddes

#Winter #Berries #Sparrows

I have found, beauty is the illumination of the mind...
-- John M. Geddes

#Beauty #Illumination #Mind

The abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...
-- John M. Geddes

#Heart #Dark #Reflection

...that icy glass reduces your beauty - dims your fire - let me be your mirror...
-- John M. Geddes

#Reflection #Fire #Glasses

...I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...
-- John M. Geddes

#Reflection #Moon #Light

...poetry is paying attention to life when all the world seems asleep to its beauties and truths...
-- John M. Geddes

#Reflection #Attention #World

...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
-- John M. Geddes

#Rain #Sunday #Reflection

...I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been...
-- John M. Geddes

#Believe #Reflection #Maps

...summer softens lines that winter cruelly shows...
-- John M. Geddes

#Summer #Winter #Lines