Kilroy J. Oldster Quotes

We must treasure our memories just as we cherish our dreams because without dreams and memory human life would be sad, brutal, and meaningless.

Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings.

Every person lives bounded by the structural formation of human anatomy and the provincial demands of the human condition.

A person without a philosophy for living is at the tender mercy of other people.

An authentic life facing reality without mental equivocation is the simplest type of life.

The mental mist of ambiguity and the fog of ambivalence hamper human existence.

The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

An act of redemption, the ultimate act of personal grace, is an undervalued form of courage.

We employ free will to design of our own being and therefore we must accept responsibility for our actions.

Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.

Self-realization, which leads to purity of the soul, requires forgiving our enemies and working on the most horrendous modules of oneself.

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.

We hold within ourselves the medicinal materials to mend self-inflicted injuries sustained while traversing the thorny obstacle course of life.

A life of leisure never satisfies anyone who possesses a lively mind.

We discover part of our true self only by conspicuous inspection of the depths of our conscience.

A common human error is a tendency to recognize personal truths as universal truths.

Growing old is humbling and it takes effort to accomplish this stage of life with dignity.

Through our work and play, each of us eventually becomes a personification of what we cherish in life.

No beautiful aspect of humankind is foreign to person with a lucid soul.

The tragedy of life is not death, but fearing to live, allowing parts of us to wilt and die instead of flower and rejoice.

Mindfulness can serve as an antidote to living a fragmental life riven with deleterious delusions and illusions.

Unresolved issues from childhood revisit us in adulthood.

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.

Nature attunes children to receive the coded messages that parents issue how to live a joyful and virtuous life.

The ego with its protective defense mechanisms is the biggest impediment to attaining spiritual growth.

Human life is an incongruous combination of tragedy and comedy.

Expressing doubt is how we begin a journey to discover essential truths.

Dreams fuel human beings imaginative response to existence.

Writers cheat death by constructing an immortality vessel.

The human mind is the principal agent of creation. How we think is the prism for how we perceive reality.

We derive courage from love. Bravery borne from love trumps the ingrained desire for self-preservation.

Human inertia induces us to believe that our lives will never change unless we relocate.

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Love is the ultimate salvation of the soul.

Feelings of regret represent our aversion to reality.

Accepting that a person will die and shucking off any aversion to this blunt thought awakens the mind to realize what is possible in a human life.

The highest degree of human attainment comes when a person is blissfully at peace with his or her own nature and the natural world.

A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse.

Each of us encounters many diverse experiences that make us grow and transform, but we seek to return to our roots, which is quietude.

The closet bond that we share with our brethren is that of grief. Every community knows sorrow.

A person who holds strong convictions might appear inflexible, impolite, or exceptionally obtuse, when they are merely direct.

A person's greatest limitations are not genetic, but imposed by self-doubt, insecurities, indecision, and timidity.

Without parlaying with the renunciation of the world, a person must establish a means to live in harmony with the uncertainties of a chaotic world.

Embracing human frailty, fallibility, and heartbreaking aloneness is crucial for any person seeking to attain self-actualization and self-realization.

A person begins to live a moral life when they cease asking what life will provide them and begins to determine what he or she expects from oneself.

The soul is a cloister, its parameters frame both realized and failed dreams.

The human spirit's unquenchable drive for originality and compulsion for creating art is the compelling force of our humanity.

We fear change because it insists we discard long held structures that no longer function suitably.

The simple life is an authentic life.

Storytelling is the distinctly human implement designed to synthesize our purposeful interaction with reality.

We bring happiness into the world one day at a time by accepting pain and returning understanding and compassion.

Summertime is a period for youthful explorations, a joyful time when we learn lessons without grand expectations or harsh consequences.

Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.

A miserable scrooge whom lacks charity for the entire world is a menace to society. Spiritual sullenness destroys men quicker than gunfire.

Every person struggles with the self to find and kindle their special radiance, which comes from cultivating kindness, charity, and love.

We can imprison ourselves with our wants, wishes, and false dreams.

The ego resists change. False pride is an impediment to change.

A person tied to the world of sorrows can return to nature for inspiration. Nature provides solace to troubled hearts.

Witnessing the moonrise each month, a person cannot resist noting a modest sense of optimism tugging at his or her enclosed capsule of bodily fluids.

An intrepid person does not fear failure; they boldly flirt with disaster.

Behind every creative act is a statement of love. Every artistic creation is a statement of gratitude.

Examination of our past is never time-wasting. Reverberations from the past provide learning rubrics for living today.

Parents' transmit their attitude towards education to children via soundless, aphonic messages.

Large families are communities unto their own.

Summers end to soon just as childhood ends before we apprehend the effervescent of our youth.

Literature is map of humanity, the documenter of civilization. Books introduce us to the landscape of the greatest minds of every century.

Suffering becomes beautiful whenever a person bears great calamities with cheerfulness.

Courage is an act of grace when it is not required; it originates from an inner necessity to honor, love, and cherish people, and respect oneself.

Our sacrosanct obligation is to tend to our own personal wounds and furiously love the entire world irrespective if the world loves us back.

A bird with a broken wing cannot survive nor will a man with a broken spirit endure.

We develop our whole character from our thoughts, actions, attentive observations, and from the resolute pursuit of our inspirational dreams.

It is important to measure ourselves at least once in life, undertake a personal odyssey that constructs a clarifying prism of our being.

A person whom lacks self-discipline leaks energy chasing naked ambitions.

A person whom lives by faith is not bound to feel hopelessness or the agony of infinite despair.

The phrase 'Boys will be boys,' reflects that a male child is expected to be unpredictable and occasionally troublesome.

Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.

Philosophic concepts are a form of sentiment. Conflicts between lofty ideas and vouchsafed values are endemic for any thinking person.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

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.

Memory is a time capsule; it records the wounds inflicted upon human consciousness.

The best way to determine a person's character is to judge them when their world is falling apart.

Unerring solitude forces a person to confront their morality and aloneness. Solitude makes personal confession possible.

Meditative thoughts assist people escape a vapid fantasy life and reconnect with ultimate reality.

We create a meaningful life by what we accept as true and by what we create in the pursuit of truth, love, beauty, and adoration of nature.

Life can make a person weary and wary, and the body and soul become fatigued. Unalleviated tedium extinguishes the light in the soul.

Our compassion, spirituality, and appreciation of beauty provide us with the capacity to love.

A pensive personality and ambivalent attitude towards power and money can cause other people to take a high production or creative person for granted.

Hope is a form of conscious dream making

Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness.

Telling our personal story reveals the shape shifting landscape of our mind.

An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now.

A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence.

A willingness to let go of an old self and allow creative thoughts to remake a person into a better version of oneself requires an act of courage.

Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.

Character is fate. Every day is training day.

Spiritual grace adds to a life and it is crucial ingredient in any person's quest to attain self-realization.

Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.

Intelligence in a spouse is a timeless quality.

A principled person's greatest disappointment will always be his or her own failures to respond to setbacks in a dynamic and positive way.

We view art in order to escape our own skins, to get outside of the commotion inside our skulls.