David Levithan Quotes

We can't just rest on the fact that this is beautiful Chicago. I want to triple down on that experience and make it... life-altering.

That's great advertising when you can turn Chicago into a city you'd want to spend more than three hours in.

It was Chicago with its World's Fair which vivified the national desire for civic beauty.

The time I spent on the bench helped me to reflect and think. It encouraged me to keep fighting and work.

You're looking at the reflection of perfection. You're looking at the man who gets all your attention. You're looking at the man with the biggest arm. At the man, with the greatest charm, the man in Chicago who will do harm to the guy three doors down. Whatcha gonna do, when you know who? How ya gonna deal, with the man of steel? How ya gonna react to Sonnen's attack?

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

There are a few places, and not many in the swing states, there are a few places where they have been notorious for stealing votes: Pennsylvania, Chicago, places where a lot of cheating have gone on over the years.

The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.

We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have.

Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.

Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.

Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

A lake that is noisy cannot reflect anything

When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.

The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because, each time he knelt beside my banks, I could see, in the depths of his eyes, my own beauty reflected.

Their monument sticks like a fishbone in the city's throat.

Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake.

Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.

When your consciousness becomes a still mirror, a still lake, a silent reservoir of energy, God is reflected in it.

It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.

I sincerely believe that there is a time in life for drifting. There is a time for sitting back and getting in touch with yourself. Some of our most interesting illuminations and ideas will come when we take time to reflect, time to kick back and cruise awhile.

A really wise man is feminine, receptive, passive. That's why Buddha looks so feminine. That quality of passiveness, that quality of receptivity... He is just a receptacle. He reflects life: he allows life to reflect in him, to be reflected through him. He sings the song that existence wants to sing through him. He has no ideas of his own; he does not hinder.