Top 161 Quotes & Sayings by Vanna Bonta
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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Space is as infinite as we can imagine, and expanding this perspective is what adjusts humankind focus on conquering our true enemies, the formidable foes: ignorance and limitation.
It's weird how people who are the least close to me or who've never even met me purport to be experts on the real me; and then, sadly, there are those who could be in touch with me but prefer to gossip with strangers about me instead.
Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
Sex in space is not just a good idea, it's survival.
Thought makes reality.
We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
Cinnamon bites and kisses simultaneously.
Greed is the lack of confidence of one's own ability to create.
Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
The song 'What Goes Up' was inspired as I was playing the piano and reminiscing about the Spaceship One launches I witnessed in the Mojave desert. It is an awesome thing to comprehend the magnitude of what a human being dreams and imagines can be realized.
Atheism is a religion itself complete with fanatics and bigots.
Poets can't worry about popularity since loving life and humanity involves saying what some people don't want to hear.
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.
There is only now. And look! How rich we are in it!
'Realistic dreamer' is not an oxymoron.
Because I had goodwill for all, I thought all were my friends. And then I learned of treachery, that some preferred my end. It wasn't the goodwill I felt that made someone a friend. What handy day, the one I learned the meaning of the word. How good to know my enemies (though their reasons are absurd!)
Patience is being friends with Time.
The news is disease in disguise pretending to be information.
Do it right, regret nothing.
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.
To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging.
The true poem rests between the words.
The stars are not the limit.
The people knew what had made them human. It was not their shortcomings, but their hearts.
Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.
Poetry is a subset of a Cosmos, which in itself, is a poem.
Love is not blind. Love sees what is most true
Teaching English and teaching Writing are two separate things.
Is it a form of social play that underneath the words people say, there is a different conversation going on?
Poetry isn't an activity, it's a way life is lived.
When we love there is no reason why.
Slander reveals the greatest truth about the coward implementing it.
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.
The great thing about knowing you're wrong is the moment you realize it, you're right.
Poetry absolves spirituality from the dividedness of religions and provides us with a sanctuary that excludes no one.
Leadership is not about being important, it's about serving something important.
The word "impossible" is not a scientific term.
Why have a cake if I can't eat it?
Don't count your check-ins before they cash.
Love is a quality, not a quantity.
There are abundantly more English professors in the world than there are authors.
Poetry is our heart, our spirit, our soul. Call it whatever; without it, everything else is nothing but hardware.
Slander is the tool of cowards.
Humility is the ability to give up your pride and still retain your dignity.
There is no hospitality like understanding.
Thought has no gender.
The illusion is we are only physical.
I would rather have an inferiority complex and be pleasantly surprised, than have a superiority complex and be rudely awakened.
A poet's first contract is with truth.
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.
To paraphrase the great poet Dante, the heavens swirl above us and our eyes are still cast to the ground.
Ideals do exist, the rest is just temporary interruption.
People who worship only themselves get a slick, polished look - like monuments. Too bad they had to go so soon.
Ridicule is a public confession of fear.
The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you.
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.
A heart needs only its own voice to do what is right.
I'm in love with the whole world.
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