Life
Quotes - Writing is a form of therapy
“Winners
are not afraid of losing. But losers are. Failure is part of the process of
success. People who avoid failure also avoid success.”
―
Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
“Writing
is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,
compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and
fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
―
Graham Greene, Ways of Escape
“But
if everything was always smooth and perfect, you'd get too used to that, you
know? You have to have a little bit of disorganization now and then. Otherwise,
you'll never really enjoy it when things go right.”
―
Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
“CALVIN:
This
whole Santa Claus thing just doesn't make sense. Why all the secrecy? Why all
the mystery?
If
the guy exists why doesn't he ever show himself and prove it?
And
if he doesn't exist what's the meaning of all this?
HOBBES:
I
dunno. Isn't this a religious holiday?
CALVIN:
Yeah,
but actually, I've got the same questions about God.”
―
Bill Watterson
“Being
happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to
look beyond the imperfections.”
―
Gerard Way
“It
doesn’t matter how many times you get knocked down. All that matters is you get
up one more time than you were knocked down.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“You
cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude
toward
what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather
than
allowing it to master you.”
―
Brian Tracy
“How
quick come the reasons for approving what we like.”
―
Jane Austen, Persuasion
“Souls
cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size
don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul. Who can say where the
cloud's blowed from or who the soul'll be 'morrow? Only Sonmi the east an' the
west an' the compass an' the atlas, yay, only the atlas o' clouds.”
―
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
“The
camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.”
―
Dorothea Lange
“Power
does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.”
―
John Steinbeck
“Failure
is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep
moving forward.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Normal
is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
―
Charles Addams
“People
are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major
matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
―
Charles Bukowski
“Civilized
men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite
without having their skulls split, as a general thing.”
―
Robert E. Howard
“He
knew one of the women well, and had shared his universe with her. They had seen
the same mountains, and the same trees, although each of them had seem them
differently. She knew his weaknesses, his moments of hatred, of despair. Yet
she was there at his side. They shared the same universe.”
―
Paulo Coelho, The Valkyries
“If
you don't know who you truly are, you'll never know what you really want.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“Never
respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves
it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger.”
―
Bohdi Sanders, Warrior Wisdom: Ageless Wisdom for the Modern Warrior
“Carve
your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of
others and the stories they share about you.”
―
Shannon Alder
“A
single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.”
―
Joseph Stalin
“Most
of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and
using people.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Learning
to distance yourself from all the negativity is one of the greatest lessons to
achieve inner peace.”
―
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“If
the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.”
―
Joseph Campbell
“I
suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all
of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give
battle in the end.”
―
Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca
“Let
today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a
grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with
people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with
those who have helped us.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
