Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Don't think of yourself as having a past, don't think of yourself as having a future. What's left?
Most people want to get what they want, whereas the secret is to want what you get at this moment.
Whenever you are engaged in something and there is an outpouring of energy, you are in enthusiasm.
There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
As for the largest-hearted of us, what is the word we write most often in our cheque-books? "Self.
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.
It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
I must confess that I know nothing whatsoever about true underlying reality, never having met any.
Democracy -- rule by the people -- sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
If there's anything I hate, it's the vibraphone. And the cha-cha-cha. And Latin rhythms generally.
The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.
For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.
Sanctification is like a clumsy, slow walk rather than a light switch that we turn from off to on.
Every angry thought makes it a little easier to get angry the next time, and a little more likely.
Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
There are ideas it will be easy to say in the future that we just don't have the language for now.
Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.
The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.
The #MeToo campaign is monumental. It is giving a voice to so many too scared to speak out before.
My favorite movie of all-time is 'Stand By Me,' and I re-read my favorite young adult books often.
I have unabashed Bieber Fever and routinely Google 'Justin and Selena.' They are so cute together.
I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.
What was the point of spending your life with someone you were always looking for ways to decieve?
People in the land of LaLa look like expensive wax fruit. And they work hard to achieve that look.
My rage outweighs my shame, as always happens when one is really ashamed and knows he ought to be.
A medicine cat has no time for doubt. Put your energy into today and stop worrying about the past.
May you find good hunting, swift running, and shelter when you sleep. (Leafpool to Ashfur, page 1)
Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.
Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?
I decided to stop drinking with creeps. I decided to drink only with friends. I've lost 30 pounds.
The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.
Death is a withdrawal of consciousness. It's like taking attention from here and putting it there.
It's safe to say that all poets are manic-depressives, but fiction writers are on that scale, too.
The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.
This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness.
good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.
I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.
I’ve learned that although our dreams may die, if you open yourself up to life, new ones are born.
Without goals, and plans to reach them, you are like a ship that has set sail with no destination.
Finally it has penetrated my thick skull. This life-this moment-is no dress rehearsal. This is it.
Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.