Quotes for November 2
It’s not your life, it’s life. Life is bigger than you. Life isn’t something that you possess, it’s something that you take part in and you witness.
- Louis C.K.
I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
- Daphne du Maurier
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
- Douglas Coupland
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Find what you’re afraid of most and go live there.
- Chuck Palahniuk
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
- Jodi Picoult
Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Let my enemies devour each other.
- Salvador Dali
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.
- Anne Morrow Lindberg
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
- Henry Ford
When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.
- Walter Payton
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
- Rainbow Rowell
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.
- Ernest Hemingway
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
- Anton Chekhov
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.
- Marina Abramovic
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
- Walt Disney
- Louis C.K.
I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.
- Daphne du Maurier
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life’s cruelest irony.
- Douglas Coupland
You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness.
- Jonathan Safran Foer
Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world.
- Don Miguel Ruiz
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Find what you’re afraid of most and go live there.
- Chuck Palahniuk
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.
- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or feel we’ve had enough time.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
- Jodi Picoult
Learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Perhaps, somewhere, some day, at a less miserable time, we may see each other again.
- Vladimir Nabokov
Let my enemies devour each other.
- Salvador Dali
The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere. That is why so much of social life is exhausting; one is wearing a mask.
- Anne Morrow Lindberg
The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.
- Henry Ford
When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.
- Walter Payton
So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.
- Rainbow Rowell
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the romance of the unusual.
- Ernest Hemingway
People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
- Anton Chekhov
To control the breathing is to control the mind. With different patterns of breathing, you can fall in love, you can hate someone, you can feel the whole spectrum of feelings by changing your breathing.
- Marina Abramovic
A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there. With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has been alive.
- Walt Disney