Jolandas Cafe Quotes & Sayings

Keeping perspective and being happy and being energetic and being creative - that's all tied to being healthy. — Wayne Coyne

Strictly speaking, there are no enlightened people, there is only enlightened activity. — Shunryu Suzuki

It's easy to look back and say if things had been perfect, I could have accommodated all of those things into my life. But as a therapist I do not allow that word to be uttered in my office after the first session, because I believe the only reason for the existence of that word is to make us feel bad. It's the only word in the language (that I know of) that is defined in common usage by what can't be. It sets a vague standard that can't be met because it is never truly characterized. I prefer to think that we're all out here doing our best under the circumstances, looking at our world through the only eyes through which we can look at it: our own. — Chris Crutcher

My dad doesn't have an iota of the depressive in him. He just depresses other people. Nothing brings him down. But this can't be true. I think it just comes out when absolutely no one else is around. It always seemed that while I knew he loved us a lot, my father actually needed nothing to be happy except books. There was enough in literature to challenge, entertain, amuse and inspire a man for a lifetime. Books and music were simply enough to sustain anyone was what he radiated. Humor, love, tragedy, it was all contained therein. And if all he needed was books, then he probably wouldn't mind if he lost the house and the wife and the whole life. Because the story was more important than the family. The story being that he was going to write the Great American Novel and finally be important, and in being important, he would be loved. Willing to lose his family to be loved by his family. Oh, the tragic blunder of this. It could almost drive someone mad. Wait, it did drive someone mad. — Jeanne Darst

Our Constitution rests on the good sense and the respect of the American people. — John Quincy Adams

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing. — Gavin MacLeod

Although it's the second largest country in the world, our useful area has been reduced. Our immigration policy is disgusting: We plunder southern countries by depriving them of future leaders, and we want to increase our population to support economic growth. — David Suzuki

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background. — Robert Breault

She wondered why she'd ever thought trusting someone who wore that much eyeliner was a good idea. — Cassandra Clare

Look, I've always had an empty place in my life that I've alternatively tried to fill with food and penises, but now I have something. — Christopher Moore

He might be too old for it, but I think I can bully him into literacy. — Alejandra Diaz Mattoni

Folks can't seem to realize that it isn't a smooth talker we need in there but a steady man, a man with judgement. Any medicine-show man can spout words, if they are written for him. It takes no genius to sound well. To act right and at the right time is something else again. — Louis L'Amour

You don't need to know what you're escaping from to become a fugitive. — Bella Pollen

Great organisations choose principles over people. When you give up on the principles, sooner or later you will break down. — Ettore Messina

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. — Terry Pratchett