Vanna Bonta Quotes

"Poetry is a transfusion of the ephemeral blood that sustains the universal heartbeat within human society."

“The true poem rests between the words.”

“Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.”

“Pay me for my work but I don`t do it for the money.”

“Where you see valid achievements or virtues being attacked, it`s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own imagined inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon.”

“When we love there is no reason why.”

"Anger is a wound gone mad."

"If I were after fame I could`ve just unbuttoned my shirt."

“The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.”

We`ve been there on World Wars, it`s time for World Party I.

Anyone contemplating world war is certifiably insane, no matter how calm they seem.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

Why have a cake if I can`t eat it?

"Patience is being friends with Time."

“The only sins are violations of love.”

“I consider myself more exportant than important.”

"Imagine gazing at Earth or other space views. That would inspire reverence and wonder about one`s self and one`s partner, and would have anyone feeling very beautiful."

"Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends! and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word (friend). It`s good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd."

"Success makes enemies of those who would`ve never been real friends."

"I`ve been aware of death since I was a little girl. My only regret will be not being able to write about it."

"My body is aging without my consent. One day we may disagree so much, we`ll have to part ways."

"Life is my lover."

"Life kissed her however it could."

“People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.”

"Ideals exist, the rest is temporary interruption."

"Love is a quality, not a quantity."

"Only Love conceives things worthy enough to stand greater than individual accomplishment."

"There is no hospitality like understanding."

"Understanding precedes peace."

"The only sins are violations of Love."

"`Realistic dreamer` is not an oxymoron."

"Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots."

"Success is nonintuitive in some ways because when we work hard, with sacrifice, devotion, and we fervently give our heart and soul, our best as a gift, the last thing we expect is that it sours or enrages another to see good results."

"What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt."

"We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn`t have a World Party."

"Gossip can be entertaining, occasionally I`ve heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew."

"Leadership is not about being important, it`s about serving something important."

"Purity of heart is blooming the same colors in the middle of the wilderness when no one sees you."

"There are more English professors in the world than authors. And that`s good"

"If you speak truth, it`s likely to offend or threaten some people, and the first thing they will get busy saying about you, guaranteed, is that you`re a liar."

"There are more English teachers and editors in the world than authors, and some are smart enough to know the difference."

Where you see valid achievements or virtue being attacked, it`s by someone viewing them as a mirror of their own inadequacy instead of an inspiring beacon for excellence.

When we love, we are courageous; and courage has nothing to do with being fearless, it`s about being willing to experience fear, even dread, to do what we must, without guarantee of outcome.

Gifts have ribbons, not strings.

Nature abhors a vacuum but why do most people hasten to fill in the blanks with garbage?

Pay me for my work but I don`t do it for the money.

How enlightened is wearing God like some do Versace?

The greatest justice in life is to be who one is.

`Impossible` is not a scientific term.

Money is only a human invention. I get paid for my work, it`s a system of trade, but it`s not my purpose and reason for living.

Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Declare World Party I !

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look -- like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.

If dishonest creeps want to tap dance, give them the spotlight and a mirror.

Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.

A cure for War? Furiously spending the same daily amount of money toward making friends. Being an indispensable source of food, shelter, peace, and cultural support dedicatedly spending 9 billion dollars a month on helping people would be a formidable enemy of evil.

I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.

Truth may sometimes hurt but delusion harms.

I consider myself more exportant than important.

Don`t count your check-ins before they cash.

The true poem rests between the words.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Let`s color all with love, for Time is naught but fleet.

I am in prayer. I am one hand, this Universe the other.

Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends, and then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. A glorious day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. It`s good to know my enemies, though their reasons are absurd.

Fame is not the glory, virtue is the goal, and fame only a messenger to bring more to the fold.

Ideals exist, the rest is temporary interruption.

What we look squarely in the eye rarely bites us in the butt.

Humility: the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.

Mediocrity inspires neither great love nor hate.

The last motive in the world for acquiring vocabulary should be to impress. Words should be acquired because we urgently need them -- to convey, to reach, to express something within us, and to understand others.

Reserve the right to make up a word where none has gone before.

The teeth of biting wit are sharpened by truth.

Invention requires disciplines of strict common sense and wild imagination.

We are progeny of not just the Earth, but of the cosmos.

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, its bragging.

Poets are the liberators of truths confined within humankind.

Sex in space is more than a big bang.

The only sins are violation of love.

We are at the helm of not only our own physicality but our environment and other species, too, as sentient, conscious beings who can think of future and affect consequence, and create progeny with our minds as well as our bodies.

People turn religion into the ultimate name-dropping.

Most religions are fine until people get into the act.

Ridicule is a public confession of fear.

People use ridicule to belittle something perceived big enough to fear.

An invention is a solution to a need.

Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.

Wit is only as biting as its truth is sharp.

It robs the public that sex seems to be commonly portrayed or condoned only like it`s something dirty.

I always take time to dream, everyday.

There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.

Professors can profess all day long, yet the ratio of professing to actual doing is evidence that, while an earned degree indicates acquired knowledge, it does not creativity make.

Creativity, the ability to make something and effect change, is the inherent nature of the human being.

One of the most efficacious things we could do for the quality of living is to teach ourselves and one another not to fear, misunderstand, misidentify, minimize, or neglect genius, but to recognize and embrace it, within ourselves and in others.

Perceiving greatness is humbling and awesome, inspiring and familiar, duty and privilege — the greater of life is served, and we are closer to a civilization based on love, problem-solving, service to one another, Beauty, and discovery.

Friend is a verb.

"There`s a point for things we create where they don`t belong to us anymore; when others love them, they belong to the world."

Earthquake commentary: "Hey, the big dog scratched, and you can feel like a flea but the time to pray is every day in a joyful way, like I pray by appreciating life, the universe, the power of Nature."

"Earth breathes."

Envy`s spite is talent`s greatest injustice.

Hot air expands, and pomposity is the inflation of choice by those lacking substance.

"Why aren`t society`s indolent, mediocre, or even criminal not hated with daily public fury reserved for those who accomplish and achieve?"

“Sometimes it`s the girl who wouldn`t give a kiss that the boys call a slut.”

Language achieves soul only when it’s applied as a tool, used by those who imbue it with what they have had the courage and honesty to perceive and feel.

Your heart is the beacon, your heart is the storm. Dare to embrace it; you`ll never be torn.

Hate? Return to sender. Address unknown.

Thought has no gender.

Everything practical first served something that was just an idea.

Poetry and aesthetics are far more enthralling than sex.

The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.

Popularity is not an indication of quality.

There is no hospitality like understanding.