Lev Trockij Quotes & Sayings

But what we're really trapped by is perceptions. You think you need to lose weight for someone to love you. I think if I gain weight, no one will love me. What we really need is to just stop thinking of ourselves as bodies and start thinking of ourselves as people. — Jennifer Weiner

Contained within the breadth of my heart where you belong unto me and I unto you. — Truth Devour

It takes so long to make a record and then it takes so long again to release it. — Colin Greenwood

Frustration is a function of our expectations, and our expectations are often a reflection of the social mirror rather than our own values & priorities — Stephen R. Covey

Joy, has no cost. — Marianne Williamson

People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers ... — Katherine Anne Porter

I guess more players lick themselves that are ever licked by an opposing team. The first thing any man has to know is how to handle himself. — Connie Mack

She is waiting. Each spring the hard rains come and the creek rises and quickens, and more of the bank peels off, silting the water brown ad bringing to light another layer of dark earth, Decades pass. She is patient, shelled inside the blue tarp. Each spring the water laps closer, paling roots, loosening stones, scuffing and smoothing. She is waiting and one day a bit of blue appears in the bank and then more blue. The rain pauses and the sun appears but she is ready now and the bank trembles a moment and heaves the stands of tarp unfurl and she spills into the stream and is free. Bits of bone gather in an eddy, form a brief necklace. The current moves on toward the sea. — Ron Rash

Man is not at home in the universe, despite all the efforts of philosophers and metaphysicians to provide a soothing syrup. Thought is still a narcotic. The deepest question is why. And it is a forbidden one. The very asking is in the nature of cosmic sabotage. And the penalty is - the afflictions of Job. — Henry Miller