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Quotes by Author
"The prosperity of the soul is spiritual."
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"When you truly start to care about someone you become vulnerable to all sorts of things."
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"Life is too short to be small."
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"There's merit in being different, inspiration in being individual, courage in being unique, and freedom in being yourself."
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"Aiden whirled on the tall cowboy. "What the fuck's your problem? Teresa looks like sex on heels so pull that stick out of your ass."
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"Poor people! They build tunnels to reach the light."
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"There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect."
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"I'll remember you... I remember everyone I've lost."
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"Action triggers reaction. An object somehow responds when we observe it.We just assume that we do objective. In fact, unconsciously we only want to see some parts of the object which do not evoke the bitter memories of our past."
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"You have to learn to intake, to imbibe, to nourish yourself and not be afraid of fullness. The fullness is like a tidal wave which then carries you, sweeps you into experience and into writing."
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"To extend compassion to a so-called villain, to forgive those who have wronged you, and to find common ground with someone who has been awfully isolated are not acts typically met with fireworks and swelling violins. More often than not, they are pushed away. To love, really love, is to do them anyway."
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"I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way."
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"Divorce is the psychological equivalent of a triple coronary bypass."
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"The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it."
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"Only a man who has his health, a full stomach and wears clean clothes would ever entertain the notion of tracking down the greatest lost city on Earth."
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"The 'Mind' in it's nature is conditioned to 'label'. From people, to situations, and circumstances to everything in between. When we allow the mind to shut down we let things be as they are."
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"Unless you can guide the mind inward, and take the attention beyond the comprehension of mind, and directly experience life, you never reach to the ultimate truth of life."
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"In order to fight off fear we must become it. When we become one with fear we become one with opposite of fear, peace. They are two halves to the same object."
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"Values are the guiding principles through which you make choices and decisions. They are influenced by your beliefs, and will help you uphold a higher standard of personal character."
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"What is in the pencil is greater than what is around it. The talents in you are greater than the environment surrounding you. Your potentials will change your environment."
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"No matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . And then one fine morning-So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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"Leaders do not conform; they reform. If you conform, you are nurturing mediocrity. If you reform, you are breeding change."
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"Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense."
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"Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would."
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"We _are_ rich,' said Anne staunchly. 'Why, we have sixteen years to our credit, and we are as happy as queens and we've all got imaginations, more or less. Look at that sea, girls - all silver and shallow and vision of things not seen. We couldn't enjoy its loveliness any more if we had millions of dollars and ropes of diamonds."
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"Have a dream in your head and a fire in your heart."
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"So we don't believe that life is beautiful because we don't recall it but if we get a whiff of a long-forgotten smell we are suddenly intoxicated and similarly we think we no longer love the dead because we don't remember them but if by chance we come across an old glove we burst into tears."
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"It was character that got us out of bed, commitment that moved us into action, and discipline that enabled us to follow through."
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"Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters."
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"Comes the tipping point in life, when we decide to a 'stop and search' and our emotional police bring us to a standstill. This allows us to scan all the little details in the spectrum of our being; scour all fuzzy or cryptic elements that are floating around in our mind and restore the fault lines in the cluttered tale of our life. ['The world was somewhere else']"
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"It's all rather political, mourning is."
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"The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own."
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"We are not taught "love thy neighbor unless their skin is a different color from yours " or "love thy neighbor unless they don't make money as you do" or "love thy neighbor unless they don't share your belies." We are taught "love thy neighbor". No exceptions. We are all in this together - every single one of us. And the only way we are going to survive as a society is through compassion. A Great Community does not mean we all think the same things or do the same things. It simply means we are willing to work together and are willing to love despite our differences."
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"The key point about life is that in the end nothing really matters."
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