Hejinian My Life Quotes & Sayings

Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace. — Rumi

When a man dies, his wife is burned alive with him, but if the wife dies before her husband, the man does not suffer the same fate. If a man dies before marriage, he is given a posthumous wife. The women passionately want to be burned because they believe they will enter paradise. — Mas'udi

The more pains you take with a thing, the more should you conceal them, so that it may appear to arise spontaneously from your own natural character. — Baltasar Gracian

Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby. — Paul Newman

Most of them ... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go ... Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun. — Catherynne M Valente

When the heart speaks, love listens. — Robert M. Hensel

Success isn't always about 'greatness'. It's about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come. — Dwayne Johnson

Anand finished up his cola cube transaction. I stepped up and slammed three pound coins on the counter like an oppressed inner-city youth born with the skills of rhythm and rhyme. — Nikesh Shukla

But nor is the willing embrace of error always beyond us. In fact, this might be the most important thing illusions can teach us: that it is possible, at least some of the time, to find in being wrong a deeper satisfaction than we would have found in being right. — Kathryn Schulz

When volume drops off, prices settle down. Volume is the force that turns stocks higher. — Louis Navellier

I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right. — George Benson

I feel like, sometimes, people, because of the amount of media, because of the amount of attention, people seem to think I have to do things. Like, I have to win right now! But I don't feel like that. — Danica Patrick