Jonas Gardell Quotes & Sayings

Think about winning the day ... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you. — Drew Brees

Poetry is a useful place for lamentation ... poems are a place where we can cry out. — Bell Hooks

Oh antic God
return to me
my mother in her thirties
leaned across the front porch
the huge pillow of her breasts
pressing against the rail
summoning me in for bed.
I am almost the dead woman's age times two.
I can barely recall her song
the scent of her hands
though her wild hair scratches my dreams
at night. return to me, oh Lord of then
and now, my mother's calling,
her young voice humming my name. — Lucille Clifton

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw. — Alex Turner

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down. — Anthony J. D'Angelo

Do people/circumstances take up space in your head ... without paying rent? What we spend the majority of our thoughts on/in is what we revere and fear! (EL) — Evinda Lepins

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life. — Brian Pinkerton

It's not that I can't express myself,
it's that I still feel present when I'm not expressing myself. — Kim Myungsoo

Let me begin by saying that I am one of those naturally wary people who considers the verb 'return' a kind of insidious threat. — John Burnham Schwartz

According to Proust, one proof that we are reading a major new writer is that his writing immediately strikes us as ugly. Only minor writers write beautifully, since they simply reflect back to us our preconceived notion of what beauty is; we have no problem understanding what they are up to, since we have seen it many times before. When a writer is truly original, his failure to be conventionally beautiful makes us see him, initially, as shapeless, awkward, or perverse. Only once we have learned how to read him do we realize that this ugliness is really a new, totally unexpected kind of beauty and that what seemed wrong in his writing is exactly what makes him great. — Adam Kirsch

I looked around me at the beautiful sunrise and I was thinking, Yes, yes, everything will be beautiful like this now. I will never be afraid again. I will never spend another day trapped in the color gray. — Chris Cleave

It is never a good practice to continue to sleep after sunrise. We should not think of staying in bed once we are awake; it increases laziness and dullness. Those who cannot decrease the amount of sleep quickly may do it in gradual stages. Those who do regular spiritual practice do not need much sleep. — Mata Amritanandamayi