Abled Means Quotes & Sayings

Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. — Susan Sontag

To a friend, achievement is good news, to an enemy, it's bragging. — Vanna Bonta

When you meet joy
Even in that momentary experience,
This ephemeral emotion unravels
All those colors of contentment
Which sparkle from within — Balroop Singh

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad. — Kathryn Stockett

We love those whom we serve (p. 26) — Richard Paul Evans

In order for us to practice self-control, we must have a goal. We must have something we are saying "yes" to, which necessarily comes with things that we must say "no" to. We use self-control to maneuver ourselves toward this "yes." This goal must be entirely our own. The minute another person is choosing and managing our goals for us, we have left self-control behind. — Danny Silk

Honestly, seriously, you don't know what to do about food? Here is an idea: Eat like an adult. Stop eating fast food, stop eating kid's cereal, knock it off with all the sweets and comfort foods whenever your favorite show is not on when you want it on, ease up on the snacking and - don't act like you don't know this - eat vegetables and fruits more. Really, how difficult is this? Stop with the whining. Stop with the excuses. Act like an adult and stop eating like a television commercial. Grow up. — Dan John

People tell me things they shouldn't. Things they ought to be powdering over, shoveling underground, facts they ought to be stuffing into a carpetbag before dropping into the river and quietly drowning. — Lyndsay Faye

When you are not practicing, remember somewhere someone is practicing, and when you meet him, he will win. — Peter Bergman

All we did was to sit around, collect some ideas, wait and see what's going to happen. That was it. — Mark McGrath

Distraction leaches the authenticity out of our communications. When we are not emotionally present, we are gliding over the surface of our interactions and we never tangle in the depths where the nuances of our skills are tested and refined. — Marian Deegan

I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. — Gavin Bryars

When you do your work happily, work will disappear. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

If a man ... .who's playing in front of the public, is being well paid, and he doesn't dedicate himself to the job, I'd be hard on him. If I could I would put him in jail, out of the road of society. Because he's a menace — Bill Shankly

I listen to a little Marina & The Diamonds. She has a song called 'Teen Idle' that I really like. — Lana Del Rey