Overtaxed Kidneys Quotes & Sayings

A conservative young man has wound up his life before it was unreeled. We expect old men to be conservative but when a nation's young men are so, its funeral bell is already rung. — Henry Ward Beecher

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken. — Steve Almond

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect — Sandor Marai

Having an attack of self-doubt about your writing ability?

Step #1 - Tell yourself - 'I'm the best damn writer there is, and the world deserves to hear my voice.'

Step #2 - Repeat Step #1 until you believe it. — Jonathan Maas

I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity - that we neeed to renew this ancient wisdom of nonviolence, to strive for a disarmed world, and to create a culture of nonviolence. — Mairead Corrigan

Adversity tests the sincerity of friends — Aesop

We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Sometimes, less often, we would sit down. We did not often speak. The place spoke for us and was a kind of speech. We spoke to each other in the things we saw. — Wendell Berry

I've always said "Writer's Block" is a myth. There is no such thing as writer's block, only writers trying to force something that isn't ready yet. Sometimes I don't write for weeks. And then all of the sudden I'll get a rush of inspiration and you can't drag me away from my notebook. But I don't stress out if I don't hit some arbitrary word count each day or if I go a few days without writing something. — Julie Ann Dawson

I played like a child. — Magnus Carlsen

I always tell people that they are really the critics. If people come three times a week to your restaurant they are the ones who find something they really love. — Wolfgang Puck