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Quotes by Author
"If you listen to music, dance daily and mediate, you have the best medicine for your mind, body and soul."
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"You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world."
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"Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them."
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"Originality implies being bold enough to go beyond accepted norms."
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"People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on."
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"I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
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"There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness."
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"We enjoy observing kindness and compassion in others, while we act as evils."
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"You cannot appreciate God without appreciating people."
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"Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world."
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"There appears to be value in getting past a mentality that good things can only rest in good things."
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"It never ceases to amaze me: the things people care about."
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"I enjoy almost everything. Yet I have some restless searcher in me. Why is there not a discovery in life? Something one can lay hands on and say "This is it? My depression is a harassed feeling. I'm looking: but that's not it - that's not it. What is it? And shall I die before I find it?"
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"That could also be because at one point during the film, our hands found each other. And when I felt Michael's middle finger caress the inside of my palm, it sent a tickle up my spine, and the fingers of my right hand were soon exploring his left hand, and we each took turns tracing the contours of the other's hands."
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"The devil's weapon is an illusion of our imagination."
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"In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is undermined, what the general masses feel tend to become the common rule."
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"The Christians and the world have totally different goals."
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"Life is never a competition."
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"I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant."
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"Vimes had once discussed the Ephebian idea of 'democracy' with Carrot, and had been rather interested in the idea that everyone had a vote until he found out that while he, Vimes, would have a vote, there was no way in the rules that anyone could prevent Nobby Nobbs from having one as well. Vimes could see the flaw there straight away."
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"A spirit without an outlet for its passion, is as good as dead."
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"The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the whole thing for many reasons."
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"The problem I have with making an intelligent statement is that some people then think it's not an isolated occurrence."
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"Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness."
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"You can find the answers to the most complicated questions of life from your deepest self. Pay attention and listen."
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"Only if we transvalue the plain-vanilla standards of our life, we may bring back things to light and sense the lies behind perceptions. ['Behind the frosted glass']"
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"And," added Mikey. "she's my sister."The others looked at him for a moment, and broke out laughing."Yeah, yeah," Squirrel scoffed, "and the McGill is my cousin."Now Allie burst out laughing, which made Mikey more annoyed."If the McGill was your cousin," Mikey said, "I can guarantee he'd disown you."
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"Sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted " stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it's still nice to beBukowski."
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"The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done."
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"Make no mistake: if you want to make it as an entrepreneur, you simply can't do it on your own. This is a nonnegotiable!"
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"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
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"Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard."
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"You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago."
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"Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure."
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"In war, the only true victory is peace."
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"There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated. Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people. She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her. There must be another life, here and now, she repeated. This is too short, too broken. We know nothing, even about ourselves."
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