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Quotes by Australian Authors
"If you listen closely, silence can be deafening."
"I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay."
"Mastery, to whatever degree your circumstance allows, is determined by a handful of choices repeated daily."
"Josie, life is not a Mills and Boon book. People fall out of love. People disappoint other people and they find it very hard to forgive."
"The gods do make playthings of us. But it is we mortals who provide them with tools."
"We must remember that regardless of our differences in rank we are all equal as human beings. You can always tell how caring and compassionate others are in their actions towards those "below" them. Of course you are going to treat your black belt professor kindly, but how do you treat the white belt taking their first class? In spite of the division in belt rank there must be no division as people."
"You are a God among men and I am you're queen of hearts."
"She and me? We the same in some fings. We live. The others, those orphan kids, they dead. Because she and me, we want to live and we do anyfing to make that happen. That's the difference between us and the others."
"Multi-tasking is stressful. You will get things done much faster if you do them one at a time."
"I need voices of reason and of hysteria and of empathy. I need to have an Alanis moment. I need advice from Elizabeth Bennett. I need Tim Tams and comfort food."
"There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you want to have a bath. With other men it's nice. It helps you know you're beautiful."
"Of course we have Queen Elizabeth as head of state, but in many ways we are a kind of republic. We don't have royals in Australia, so it was kind of unusual to run into those kind of people. But aside from that it was quite ordinary."
"True mastery, it turns out, is not found in accumulating each and every tool under the sun. True mastery is learning that there are really only a handful of tools, and it is the proper application with correct timing and setting that makes them so useful."
"What do you know of poetry? Ambrose said without bothering to turn around. "I know a limping verse when I hear it, I said. "But this isn't even limping. A limp has rhythm. This is more like someone falling down a set of stairs. Uneven stairs. With a midden at the bottom. "It is a sprung rhythm, he said, his voice stiff and offended. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. "Sprung? I burst out with an incredulous laugh. "I understand that if I saw a horse with a leg this badly 'sprung,' I'd kill it out of mercy, then burn its poor corpse for fear the local dogs might gnaw on it and die."
"For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts."
"Self-improvement is generally a removal of a vice rather than an acquisition of a virtue."
"Sometimes when you're struggling to see kindness in the world, you need to be the creator of it to remind yourself it does exist."
"Indiscriminately share your smile."
"You can't go around feeling too much."
"I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us."
"Happiness is being emerged in thoughts of you."
"I can't give you the moon, the tinker said. "She doesn't belong to me. She belongs only to herself."
"Anyone can be tough for a season. It takes a special kind of human to rise to life's challenges for a lifetime."
"Love is indiscriminate in the path it takes to find you."
"You will not find it in the words of poets or the longing eyes of sailors. If you want to know of love, look to a trouper's hands as he makes his music. A trouper knows."
"Life is so unlikely, so rare and beautiful an opportunity it is to live, we must be on constant guard to ensure that our actions are worthy of the life it takes to perform them."
"Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts."
"It will be worth it if I am remembered, if not flatteringly, then at least with some small amount of accuracy."
"Training was a time where resolutions made in the enthusiasm of an inspired moment were put to personal test."
"A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck. ... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices."
"I've been waiting for you all night and day,' she said.Froi shivered. He realised that the words came from Quintana the ice maiden. Realised, as he felt his face heating up, that the idea of this Quintana waiting for him with excitement spoke to parts of him he believed to be dormant. And then she winked.'Did I do that right?' she asked. Her smile was lopsided and he saw a glimpse of the teeth.And Froi imagined that he would follow her to the ends of the earth."
"Nothing feels dirtier than living a life that is not your own. No amount of money is worth my soul. I would rather be homeless and go out in a blaze of glory than subject myself to a slow and steady death of apathy and government by my environment."
"Being the best you can be takes courage. You need to own your decisions and have the courage to see them through."
"On the other side of self-doubt comes a confidence from faith in the process. Even though our destination may be a long way off, each day we rise with a subtle smile as if we have already achieved it, because, when we are truly committed to a task, we already have."
"His voice is like a thunderstorm, and his hands know every secret hidden deep beneath the cool, dark earth."
"And there was Ambrose. To deem us simply enemies is to lose the true flavours of our relationship. It was more like the two of us entered into a business partnership in order to more efficiently pursue our mutual interest of hating each other."
"Trapped in a continuum of your own making. Awareness is the key that unlocks your opportunity for change."
"Are you hurt?""Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere."
"But I want to give in to it sometimes, only because I'm tired and the feeling that I've had for a while-that something is haunting me down-becomes all consuming and I'm frightened that one morning there will be not enough to keep me going."
"Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows."
"People looking at advertisements or reading their local newspapers would have had no idea that what they were reading was bought and paid for with their tax dollars."
"Never forsake what we have. There is no barter or trade worth exchanging what we mean to one another."
"But Froi looked around with wonder. As if he had never seen the world from up so high before."
"Because without our language, we have lost ourselves. Who are we without our words?"
"It's hard to be present when your attention is suffering information overload. Switch off and just sit still."
"You are the space in which these thoughts arise, but not the thoughts themselves."
"In my own life, I have always viewed personal mastery as simply a medium through which I become capable of providing more service toward my fellow man."
"The vagina is obliterated from the imagery of femininity in the same way that the signs of independence and vigor in the rest of her body are suppressed."
"We are just too busy trying to appear smart to realize how intelligent we actually are."
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