Darrell Calkins Quotes

We already know way too much, but don't know what to do with it. Beneath all that is a soul searching for how to have fun, in the deepest sense of the word, and how to cause fun for others. ~ Darrell Calkins

The only resolution is to spontaneously invent an unknown, unique set of qualities and actions so as to blend perfectly with the actual requirements you're confronted with. ~ Darrell Calkins

Conscience exists as a reality-check for intent, but it's not intent itself. Anyone who really plays, explores and celebrates life has the right intent. ~ Darrell Calkins

This is where we can find the greatest relief and joy everyday: falling under thought, anxiety, worry and all forms of me, into stillness; losing oneself in compelling engagements that transcend ambition, strategy, self-gain and self-consciousness. ~ Darrell Calkins

Progress and accomplishment with anything and everything depend on how much quality one brings to the show. What makes for quality, if one breaks it down, is spectrum and depth of virtue. ~ Darrell Calkins

One's soul is made up of the unity of conscience and what compels you. That is, at the core, there is already a devotional relationship between these two. We just need to realize that and give them both the freedom to do what they wish. ~ Darrell Calkins

Love has an enormous spectrum of expression and impact. At the far end, it begins to unravel and move away from subjective experience and personal preference. It becomes pure intent, something that no longer tickles our desires, but fulfills the deeper needs of each circumstance we're in. ~ Darrell Calkins

Forgiveness is really about absolution: to set free. But if you look carefully at the dynamic, the one you're setting free is yourself. ~ Darrell Calkins

One does not find freedom or enact responsibility by surrendering to another's conceptualization of these ideas. ~ Darrell Calkins

Knowledge burnished through suffering becomes wisdom, which eventually opens into the calling to return in innocence to simple harmony. ~ Darrell Calkins

An initial perception or impulse has an infinite number of directions it can go. ~ Darrell Calkins

I think it's essential to construct our lives
as if it's a story we want to tell. ~ Darrell Calkins

If you sustain your balance and intention, everything, including things unimaginable, arrive at the appropriate time and place. ~ Darrell Calkins

Listen and look long at beauty that compels you, spontaneously engage what naturally calls to you…this is how we recover our true personal values. ~ Darrell Calkins

A stone can be used for building a house, blocking a road, or killing someone. The same is true for any idea. ~ Darrell Calkins

If you want to know what you really value, look at where and how you spend your time. ~ Darrell Calkins

It's always an excellent idea to take a good look around at nature. ~ Darrell Calkins

Now, what am I here for, again?' There's genuine humility, and courage, in that question. ~ Darrell Calkins

Coaching at Texas and playing at the University of Oklahoma, I had the opportunity to see a lot of guys in Texas - Texas lettermen - who I played against. ~ Darrell Royal

Music is kind of motivational and it helps me get my mind right. ~ Darrell Wallace Jr.

Breaks balance out. The sun don't shine on the same ol' dog's rear end every day. ~ Darrell Royal

I don't know if I want to be a big star though. ~ Darrell Hammond

When a young writer deliberately tries to create an effect, the result is often a little self-conscious and overdone. But why is it so hard for us to glory in what the writer has tried to do, or even in the very fact that the writer has deliberately tried to do something? ~ Lucy Calkins

Once you cross the 50 you feel like an unsaddled horse. ~ Darrell Royal

Doctors didn't know what to do with me. ~ Darrell Hammond

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him. ~ Darrell Royal

I was pregnable once," Merill thought to contribute. She remembered how troublesome it made getting around, having a ripe belly. Couldn't roll properly, couldn't hop properly, couldn't romp or flop properly. There were the cravings for roasted cabbage - she loathed cabbage, with its leaves and growing in rows. And labor! Merill passed out during childbirth. She'd endured burns, lacerations, rips, serrated teeth, nails, hooks and a trove of unmentionable harm-inflictors. Labor trounced them all and wriggled gleefully in the spray of blood and gore. "Being pregnable is no good. No good at all. Like growing a bitter melon in your belly. ~ Darrell Drake

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays. ~ Dimebag Darrell

the final corner, when all three ~ Elizabeth Darrell

God is its author, and not man; he laid
The key-note of all harmonies; he planned
All perfect combinations, and he made
Us so that we could hear and understand. ~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Write about just one thing, I have said, and there is wisdom in this advice ... And yet, there is wisdom also in William Sloanes contrary observation: Almost all effective writing above the level of the soup can turns out to be about quite a lot of things fused or laced or linked together. ~ Lucy Calkins

Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves. ~ John Gardiner Calkins Brainard

Two coconuts dropped beside him. Each went about its death throes with a slight bounce and languorous crawl then fell still. ~ Darrell Drake

Dance with the one who brung ya. ~ Darrell Royal

When you are on the right path, you know it. You become the person you were created to be. You start to acknowledge the God within you. ~ Darrell Foster

The wedding isn't what makes a marriage." She told them. "Love is what makes a marriage. The wedding is just an expensive party. ~ Darrell Maloney

I was in a profession that received a lot of media. ~ Darrell Royal

Reach out
for your dreams
keep your heart
strong and true,
know that
the dream
you reach out for
is also reaching out
for you ~ Darrell Brown

Unlike plumbing, carpentry, auto repair, etc., we cannot outsource all the work over to someone else. If we wish to see our relationships fixed, at some point we are going to have to get our hands dirty. ~ Darrell Roberts

I had hoped God would be neutral. ~ Darrell Royal

NASCAR logic isn't always logical. ~ Darrell Waltrip

I think real true success is when, yes, you have reached the goal, reached yours, but it's how many others you have helped along the way. ~ Darrell Green

Musicians tend to get bored playing the same thing over and over, so I think it's natural to experiment. ~ Dimebag Darrell

I was more influenced by players like Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen than by the guys in southern rock bands. ~ Dimebag Darrell

Just because a man has money it doesn't mean he'll treat you right. ~ Darrell Debrew

Killing a teenager would be no big deal at all. ~ Darrell Pitt

You know, it doesn't take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That's the main job. ~ Darrell Issa

You need to understand something, boy. The world you see outside of you is a reflection of what you have inside of you. If you are one of those people how only sees problems and darkness and despair, then that is all there is ever going to be for you. But if you are one of those people how sees hope, opportunity, and love, then you can make a difference ~ Lucy Calkins

Act One: Get your hero up a tree. Act Two: Throw rocks at him. Act Three: Get him down out of the tree. - attributed to George Abbott, on playwriting ~ Darrell Fusaro

When I left my parents' home when I was 19, I went to the University of Florida, and within 24 hours was in the mental health department. And within 20 minutes, I was being told by the director there that they didn't have what I needed there. ~ Darrell Hammond