Assertively Friendly Quotes & Sayings

There in bed, happiness comes over me. Not like something that belongs to me, but like a wheel of fire rolling through the room and the world. For a moment I think I'll manage to let it pass and be able to lie there, aware of what I have, and not wish for anything more. The next moment I want to hang on. I want it to continue. He has to lie beside me tomorrow, too. This is my chance. My only, my last chance. I swing my legs onto the floor. Now I'm panic-stricken. This is what I've been working to avoid for thirty-seven years. I've systematically practiced the only thing in the world that is worth learning. How to renounce. I've stopped hoping for anything. When experienced humility becomes an Olympic discipline, I'll be on the national team. I've never had any patience for other people's unhappy love affairs. I hate their weakness. — Peter Hoeg

He says there's a reason wife and life sound almost the same. — Stephen King

Free from what? What does Zarathustra care! But brightly your eyes should signal to me: free for what? Can — Friedrich Nietzsche

After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over. — Joshua Oppenheimer

(In response to a picture critic.)

I'm actually a very joyful person. But being a genius with a photographic memory mixed with a strong case of OCD makes for a difficult picture sometimes. — Calvin W. Allison

Now. It is only ever now. So do it, you coward. Breathe underwater at last. — Nina George

Medicine is about disease and what makes people die. Chiropractic is about life and what makes people live. — B. J. Palmer

You have understood what all great painters understand: in order to forget the rules, you must know them and respect them. — Paulo Coelho

That which interest me above all else,' he wrote,'is the caligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of the grass. — Colm Toibin

My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me — Mark Cuban

If you're going to go for 'it' you have a common thing you share with other artists; that's desperation. You jump out a window style-wise. Try to put it together before you hit the ground. — Alex Katz

Positioning, anticipation and technique create quickness. Therefore, you can always get quicker — Don Meyer