Edward Mott Quotes & Sayings

I don't know, I just feel like love isn't supposed to be so ... angsty, you know? Like, if it works, it shouldn't be so tortured.
-Oliver — Melissa De La Cruz

I live in a constant endeavor to fence against the infirmities of ill health, and other evils of life, by mirth; being firmly persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more when he laughs, it adds some thing to his fragment of life. — Laurence Sterne

This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction. — Emily Nagoski

There are many stories and accounts about the winners of lotteries who
are jubilant when they win, but whose lives descend into a nightmare
after acquiring that unearned money. (No challenge, no skill.) Thelottery looks like "the answer" to people because they associate money
with pleasure. But the true enjoyment of money comes in part from the
earning of it, which involves skill and challenge.
Watching television is usually done for pleasure. That's why so few
people can remember (or make use of) any of the 30 hours of television
they have watched in the past week. — Steve Chandler

Lesson: In the real world, ninety-nine cents will not get you into New York City. You will need the full dollar. — Bruce Springsteen

No one could ever push you to write or become a writer, except yourself. — Desi Puspitasari

Families aren't always blood. You make your own. — Meljean Brook

What you feel like eating at any given moment is what you should have. — Ferran Adria

Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality; we only see real things in the entrancing splendor of imagination and caprice, instead of in the simple daylight of reality and necessity. — Ludwig Feuerbach

Isn't it strange how silence, in a way, has a sound of its own? — Greg Gifune

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements. — Bill Keller