Klaunai Quotes & Sayings

When we do stumble, it's important not to judge ourselves harshly. Although some people assume that strong feelings of guilt or shame act as safeguards to help people stick to good habits, the opposite is true. People who feel less guilt and who show compassion toward themselves in the face of failure are better able to regain self-control, while people who feel deeply guilty and full of self-blame struggle more. — Gretchen Rubin

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse. — Epictetus

Give yourself permission to not be perfect. Life's too short, but you're still young. Give up that iron-knuckle grip you have on excellence and just ... have fun. For a change. — Cherrie Lynn

A complete lack of personality,1 that's what they're after, that's what excites them! Anything so as not to be themselves, not to resemble themselves! For them, that's the very height of progress. I — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I learned about sex the hard way ... from books. — Emo Philips

Now, in my middle age,
about nineteen in the head I'd say,
I am rowing, I am rowing ... — Anne Sexton

What was the good of dreaming of adventure if you turned your back on the first one that came your way? — Delia Sherman

We have reversed the usual classical notion that the independent "elementary parts" of the world are the fundamental reality, and that the various systems are merely particular contingent forms and arrangements of these parts. Rather, we say that inseparable quantum interconnectedness of the whole universe is the fundamental reality, and that relatively independent behaving parts are merely particular and contingent forms within this whole. — David Bohm

You may have an occasion to be traveling in southern Maine yourself one of these days. Pretty part of the countryside. You may even stop by Tookey's Bar for a drink. Nice place. They kept the name just the same. So have your drink, and then my advice to you is to keep right on moving north. Whatever you do, don't go up that road to Jerusalem's Lot. Especially not after dark. There's a little girl somewhere out there. And I think she's still waiting for her good-night kiss. — Stephen King

I think you could make a completely Virtual Centre, though I have a general feeling, and maybe because I am getting very old, that you still need face to face. — Richard Rogers

I have my mantra about silhouette, proportion, and fit. I believe that when they are in harmony and balance, you'll look great in anything. — Tim Gunn

I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level. — Clint Eastwood

The camera has always been a guide, and it's allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn't even notice. — Don Chadwick

If a work of art or a new style disturbs you, then it is probably good work. If you hate it, it is probably great. — Leo Steinberg