Paul Breitner Quotes & Sayings

It's a tricky balancing act, finding that point between safety and danger where you can feel both secure and adventurous. I used to read books about fishing by people who had given up jobs and careers to show up every day at a trout stream. What made them do it? They realized, after years of fortifying the walls, of making life safe and secure, that they also needed what was on the other side. — John Zeaman

Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is. — Kenny Rogers

Yeah, he'd said, maybe it's just my idea, but really it always hurts, the times it don't hurt is when we just forget, we just forget it hurts, you know, it's not just because my belly's all rotten, everybody always hurts. So when it really starts stabbing me, somehow I feel sort of peaceful, like I'm myself again. — Ryu Murakami

I find that following sympathetic characters on the secular pilgrimages they make - and we all must make - is the fun of storytelling. Most of the time we are quite content to live in the protective cocoons we have spun, but these stories, and the cover I chose are a reminder that when the butterfly emerges it is fully capable of taking wing. — Millicent Vetterlein

The mania for collecting can easily turn simply into accumulating. All one has to do is develop one collecting interest after another, and so on. But collectors of a particular category of articles almost always lose interest once they have reached their goal. When the collection is complete, what else is there to do? ... Failure makes it possible to avoid the effort: he simply carries on as before. (pp. 25-26) — Jacques Bonnet

The greatest unity comes from the greatest differences which are brought together in relationship. — Saunsea