Gratifying Green Quotes & Sayings

Be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything else ... What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion to write constantly strips this vanity aside and forces us to confront that loneliness and the uncertainty with which human beings, in the end, live and die. — Boria Sax

There are one hundred and ninety nine ways to beat, but only one way to win; get there first. — Bill Shoemaker

What good's slacking all the time if the ship comes apart beneath you while you sleep? — Scott Lynch

No government proposal more complicated than "This note is legal tender for all debts, public and private" ever works. — P. J. O'Rourke

All the punishment in the world will not reform a man, unless he knows that he who inflicts it upon him does it for the sake of reformation, and really and truly loves him, and has his good at heart. Punishment inflicted for gratifying the appetite makes man afraid but debases him. — Robert Green Ingersoll

I don't defeat my opponents, they defeat themselves. — Helio Gracie

We're not going to get carried away. Well, we are going to for the next couple of days! — Paul Collingwood