Grimbles Quotes & Sayings

There are always people making decisions you can't control. But you decide what you're willing to do. What you can live with. At the end of the day, that's the only thing you can control. — Jo Graham

You can give so much in this life, and that offers you many opportunities to release the self. For example, you can give time, helpfulness, donations, restraint, patience, noncontention, and forgiveness. Any path of service - including raising a family, caring for others, and many kinds of work - incorporates generosity. Envy - and its close cousin, jealousy - is a major impediment to generosity. So notice the suffering in envy, how it is an affliction upon you. Envy actually activates some of the same neural networks involved with physical pain (Takahashi et al. 2009). In a compassionate and kind way, remind yourself that you will be all right even if other people have fame, money, or a great partner - and you don't. To free yourself from the clutches of envy, send compassion and loving-kindness to people you envy. — Rick Hanson

He sat where he was, on Mouse, in the grip of terrible indecision. He almost wished something would happen - a sudden attack of Mexicans or something. He might be killed, but at least he wouldn't have to make a choice between disobeying Mr. Gus and disobeying Lorena. — Larry McMurtry

When you love somebody, you don't just give up on them when they do bad things. You fight for them. — Kelly Braffet

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue. — Anatole France

I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself. — C.S. Lewis

Never fall out of love with life — Judi Dench

Things weren't permanent, things could always fall apart, never get too comfortable, and even those you trust, those you trust as authority figures and role models, are liable to show themselves as illusions. — Michael Hastings

I'm dead?"
"That body is... yes. — Donna Augustine

Are my characters copies of people in real life? ... Don't ever believe the stories about authors putting people into novels. That idea is a kind of joke on both authors and readers. All the readers believe that authors do it. All the authors know that it can't be done. — Ayn Rand

I wanted to work with an elephant. — Robert Pattinson

The product is second to managing the people. — Andrea Jung

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas. — Gloria Steinem