Olbricht Storniolo Quotes & Sayings

My folks were busy. My dad was a teacher, and it was during the Second World War, and my mother was working. So I got my stories from films and books. I read a lot, and I love to read to this day. — Robert Osborne

Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep. — Fran Drescher

Optimism is the most important human trait, because it allows us to evolve our ideas, to improve our situation, and to hope for a better tomorrow. — Seth Godin

Here's a practice idea for right now. Choose one of those sets of phrases. ... Plan on taking some time to say those words over and over, as you would an ardent prayer. Set some time aside for this. (Fifteen minutes would be a good start.) Then sit comfortably. Later on, you can say these phrases walking about or doing chores or even riding your bike--but for now, just sit. That way you can look at the words.
"Say each phrase as if you expect it will feel different in your mind--they are slightly different wishes--and feel how each of them echoes in your mind and body. [pp. 72-73] — Sylvia Boorstein

What else has kept any of us going, but love of someone or the memory of that love? — Rachel L. Schade

It's always easier to spot others' hypocrisies while missing our own. — Annette Gordon-Reed

We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force. — Dalai Lama

I don't want to be owned by a corporation and obliged to make a certain type of album. I want to be free. — Annie Lennox

The Admiralty said it was a plane and not a boat, the Royal Air Force said it was a boat and not a plane, the Army were plain not interested. — Christopher Cockerell

Events in a single human lifetime are remarkable. Events from all human lifetimes are inconceivable. — Bill Loguidice

A story has come down about Rumi: a woman asks if he would say something to her young boy about his eating too much of a particular kind of white-sugar candy. Rumi tells her to come back in two weeks. She does, and he tells her again to come in two weeks. She does, and he advises the child to cut down on sweets.
"Why did you not say this a month ago?"
"Because I had to see if I could resist having that candy for two weeks. I couldn't. Then I tried again and was successful. Only now can I tell him to try not to have so much. — Coleman Barks

When someone is sleep-Tweeting the sexual thoughts you're currently having about them while you're having sex with someone else, miles away, it's kind of too late. — Stefan Mohamed