Helpish Quotes & Sayings

It turns out in some cases, if you do things backwards, problems that previously appeared complex suddenly become very simple. — Susan Lammers

You can never, ever worry about making mistakes or things like that. I'm going to go out and play ball, and that's what I do. — Mario Williams

Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires. — Lao-Tzu

It is certainly true that cooking is therapeutic, creative and all those other faintly creepy self-helpish words. I would love to tell you that learning to cook was part of my journey toward actualization. I would love to tell Oprah this. I would love to tell Oprah this while weeping. But I learned to cook for a much simpler reason: in the abject hope that people would spend time with me if I put good things in their mouth. It is, in other words (like practically everything else I do), a function of my desperation for emotional connection and acclaim. — Steve Almond

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers. — Thomas Jefferson

When I was in middle school, I always did well in school, but teachers either loved me or absolutely hated me. — Miles Teller

We must play as if there are no more games, no more tomorrows ... — Jock Stein

A story is a letter the author writes to himself to tell what he wouldn't discover otherwise. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

J. P. Morgan once said, If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it. — Douglas Preston

For 10 years of my life, 3 times a day, I thanked the Lord for what I was about to receive and thanked him again for what I had just received, and then we lost touch and I suddenly thought, where is he now — Tom Stoppard

Julia", I answered breathlessly.
"Chloe, are you in the bathroom fucking that nice slice of man cake?"
"I'll be there in a second, okay?" I ended the call and shoved the phone back into my bag. I looked up at him, feeling my rational side return after the small interruption. "I should go."
"Look, I-" He was cut off as my phone rang again. I answered without bothering to look at the screen.
"God, Julia! I'm not in here fucking the piece of man cake!"
"Chloe?" Joel's confused voice sounded through the phone.
"Oh ... hi." Shit. This could not be happening to me. — Christina Lauren