675 quotes found
“Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know”
“Learn from the past, but don't live there, Plan the future, but don’t live there. Remember the Present is where we truly spend the rest of our lives.”
“It’s better to make baby steps in the right direction than big steps in the wrong direction!”
“Life will have less drama if you keep your circle small. You don’t have to be friends with anyone. Pick people who will influence you. Pick the people who share the same interests and radiate the p...”
“Another thought hits me hard as a lawn dart to the eye: this moment is so terribly unimportant to the rest of the world, yet it means everything to me somehow - and it's enough.So I sign and I sign...”
“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written; or you didn’t go swimming in warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs...”
“What if you wake up some day, and you’re 65… and you were just so strung out on perfectionism and people-pleasing that you forgot to have a big juicy creative life?”
“Numquam illegitimi carborundum --"Never let the bastards grind you down.”-- my old Latin prof Dr. Kuk''s version, other minor variations out there.”
“Know! You don't know!Don't know! You know!”
“In his last days on this earth, he’d wanted to know if this was all there was.”
“life is the most valuble thing money isn´t”
“Even everything will come to failure and seems it always like that, i’ll just start again. The biggest ability i have, is ability to keep repeat on fail.”
“I believe,” he said gently, “we all have a perfect right to make ourselves unhappy if that is what we freely choose. But I am not sure we have the right to allow our own unhappiness to cause someon...”
“Living exists when life lives through us … life is a living now!”
“Yes, we were good at using the grapevine. But what we were best at, what we were really the kings of, that was buses and sitting around in bedrooms.No one could beat us at that.None of this led any...”
“The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.”
“Life can be impossibly tough. At times it seems like there is no escape from either the pressure or monotony of a world where you are corralled into being something or someone you are not. But ther...”
“My life is ruled by four W’s: my writing, my work, my wife, and my whisky. Not necessarily in that order.”
“You, you buy into all this stuff about good guys and bad guys in the world. A loan shark breaks a guy's leg for not paying his debt, a banker throws a guy out of his home for the same reason, and y...”
“Life is BETTER when you're SMILING!”
