Complaciente En Quotes & Sayings

If you're trained in metaphysics, you don't see the world as distinct from yourself. You are one with the world. — Marianne Williamson

If you could see my legs when I take my boots off, you'd form some idea of what unrequited affection is. — Charles Dickens

At last he said, very softly, "It's big, isn't it?" "It is," I said. "And Al . . . man . . . I'm just a little guy. — Stephen King

A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way. — Neil Gaiman

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now. If the problem is something in your own character, who's stopping you from setting your mind straight? And if it's that you're not doing something you think you should be, why not just do it? - But there are insuperable obstacles. Then it's not a problem. The cause of your inaction lies outside you. - But how can I go on living with that undone? Then depart, with a good conscience, as if you'd done it, embracing the obstacles too. — Marcus Aurelius

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore. Or if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language can I find That solace? — John Milton

For the last 15 years that I have been performing, all I ever wanted to do was transcend poetry to the world. See, it wasn't enough for me to write a book. It wasn't enough for me to join a slam competition, and while those things hold weight, it wasn't the driving force that pushes the pen to the pad. — Lemon Andersen

We cannot buy what we need for an ideal life in stores, so we have become habitual shoppers who come up short again and again and therefore have to head back for more. — Dave Bruno

How many fucking times do I have to tell you that you're special?"
"A million? Possibly more."
Cooper grinned at my tone. "Fair enough. — Bijou Hunter

What I mean is, right from that first time, there was
something in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed to
say: Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what a
pity we left it so late. — Kazuo Ishiguro

There are seven emotions: joy, anger, anxiety, adoration, grief, fear, and hate, and if a man does not give way to these he can be called patient. — Ieyasu Tokugawa

Speaking for myself, I spend a good ten minutes a day deciding whether or not to read the results of new surveys, and, once I have read them, a further five minutes deciding whether or not to take them seriously. — Craig Brown

I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon, than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses. — William Shakespeare

Art for art's sake is dead, if it ever lived. — Edward Steichen