Laukkaing Quotes & Sayings

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. — Ken Keyes Jr.

Living in South Korea as a girl meant living under a lot of discrimination and limitation. It was the same in my university and in the Korean literary world I am involved in. — Kim Hyesoon

When finally the sky grew ink-black, the trees were visible only as their swaying branches blotted out the stars that crossed in blazing showers, as sometimes they do. The language of the stars, seldom read and heeded less, told beautifully and in silence of all the victories that had ever been won and all the defeats ever suffered. In uncountable lines of light across the widest sphere, the stars spoke of everything notable even down to a leaf blowing rhythmically in the wind. — Mark Helprin

If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators. — Brian Wilson

Who would win in a fight? The past or the future? The past. Every time. It was relentless. — Megan Miranda

John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do. — Samuel Johnson

Google everything. I mean everything. Google your dreams, Google your problems. Don't ask a question before you Google it. You'll either find the answer or you'll come up with a better question. — Austin Kleon

By all means play the game of life, create new visions and have fun but do not identify yourself with your vision. — Christopher Dines

Napoleon said men will die for bits of ribbon pinned to their chests, but the General understands that even more men will die for a man who remembered their names, as he does theirs. When he inspects them, he walks among them, eats with them, calls them by their names and asks about wives, children, girlfriends, hometowns. All anyone ever wants is to be recognized and remembered. Neither is possible without the other. This desire drives these busboys, waiters, janitors, gardeners, mechanics, night guards, and welfare beneficiaries to save enough money to buy themselves uniforms, boots, and guns, to want to be men again. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Common to the many theories about the birth trauma is the assumption that the feelings produced by this event were recorded and reside in some form in the brain. This assumption is supported by the great number of repetitious dreams of the "drainage pipe" variety — Thomas A. Harris

The extent to which beliefs are based upon evidence is very much less than believers suppose. Take the kind of action which is most nearly rational: the investment of money by a rich City man. You will often find that his view (say) on the question whether the French franc will go up or down depends upon his political sympathies, and yet is so strongly held that he is prepared to risk money on it. — Bertrand Russell

Pull on the new flesh like borrowed gloves
and burn your fingers once again. — Richard K. Morgan

Generally, that humble piece of furniture placed on the front veranda of the house officially belonged to the man of the household; the women never slept on it. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

If life were a movie, physical reality would be the entire DVD: Future and past frames exist just as much as the present one. — Max Tegmark

No matter where you are in life, no matter what you've contributed to creating, no matter what's happening, you are always doing the best you can with the understanding and awareness and knowledge that you have. And when you know more, you will do differently, as I did — Louise Hay