Letter From Peking Quotes & Sayings

Happiness is a state of mind and not a state of possession. Be as you are and you will be happy, if you try to be someone else you will be miserable. — Apoorve Dubey

It's a conversation that nobody really likes to have, and it seems that we never can get to a solution with it and something horrific happens. We all stand back and say, "How could we let that happen?" and then it goes away and we move on. — Katey Sagal

An informed citizenry is the only true repository of the public will. — Thomas Jefferson

Mr. Beckwith, it is not possible for me to believe that God sees any true love as evil, no matter what the words of man might tell you. Hate is the only truly evil thing in the world. Second only to it false love, followed by its twin, hypocrisy. If your love was true, then it was blessed. — Ulysses Grant Dietz

As the CIA and KGB, like God and Satan, fight Miltonic battles across five continents ... — Paul Johnson

Where do we go when we die? he said.
- I don't know, the man said. Where are we now? — Cormac McCarthy

I like black and white films. I don't exactly know why - probably because there is a stylization which is removed from actual life, unlike a color film. — Norman McLaren

There's a simple reason for this. The more shots you get at the target, the more likely you'll eventually score a bull's-eye, but the more misses you'll accrue as well. The bull's-eyes end up in museums and on library shelves, not the misses. Which, when you think about it, is a shame. It feeds the myth that geniuses get it right the first time, that they don't make mistakes, when, in fact, they make more mistakes than the rest of us. What — Eric Weiner

Creativity itself doesn't care at all about results - the only thing it craves is the process. Learn to love the process and let whatever happens next happen, without fussing too much about it. Work like a monk, or a mule, or some other representative metaphor for diligence. Love the work. Destiny will do what it wants with you, regardless. — Elizabeth Gilbert

I always wanted to go to Sundance. — Eve Hewson

Counting blessings is better than recounting problems — Russell M. Nelson

I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him. — Edward St. Aubyn

If it has to sell its mascot, your team sucks. — Jay Mohr

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick. — Neil Gaiman

Don't be misled: The imperative to 'Enjoy!' is omnipresent, but pleasure and happiness are almost entirely absent. — Nina Power