Quotes from Laurence Overmire

If God spent 180 million years making dinosaurs, what makes us think Man is so special, a tick of the clock before midnight?

Life is a poem most people never read.

When you look at a person who's different and see Yourself, then you begin to understand who and what God really is.

History remembers only the celebrated, genealogy remembers them all.

Every child comes into this world as a gift to humanity.

The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.

Life is inherently disturbing. That's why we've created the myths-to help us overcome, defend or deny, to transcend the grim reality of what here seems to be.

There is no such thing as an insignificant life, only the insignificance of mind that refuses to grasp the implications.

Those who refuse to look at or give expression to the dark side of life are in denial-fear preventing passage through the door of growth, truth and, ultimately, wisdom.

Only love and courage will make this world a safer place. Hatred and fear will make it more dangerous.

Dead people are easy to love. It's the living ones who are hard.

Anyone who doesn't love animals has a serious hole in the heart.

Love is the great truth we all know in our hearts and must eventually recognize.

Art is always, even at its most repulsive, an impassioned cry of love.

Creativity is at the root of love and meaning in this life.

Those who oppose equality, compassion and social justice have been on the wrong side of history time and time again.

Only in making peace - with ourselves, with others, and the world - will any of us find the life we are hoping for.

There are basically two kinds of people: those who have empathy and care about others and those who don't. The ones who don't are creating most of the problems in the world.

The way to peace, harmony and balance for the planet is through the loving kindness of each individual heart.

Good people turn to love, courage and kindness in times of crisis, not hate, fear and cruelty.

No matter what path you're on in this life, if that path isn't about love, you're on the wrong path.

God made in the image of Man is an imperfect master.

There is no such thing as failure for an artist, unless failure is the refusal to attempt, the unwillingness to dream.

I reserve the right to evolve. What I think and feel today is subject to revision tomorrow.