Rhian Quotes & Sayings

I settled back on the bed with my own heavy sigh. The point of this reluctant outpouring of all my crap isn't to make you feel guilty. I don't need anyone to be concerned for me. That's my point. Will that change one day? I don't know. I'm not asking it to. But Rhian, when you trusted James with all you baggage you decided that day that you were asking someone to be concerned. You were tired of being alone. Will staying with him be hard? Yes. Will fighting your fears every day be difficult? Yes. But how he feels for you ... jeez, Rhian ... that's worth it. And telling yourself that it's okay to run way from him to be alone just because I'm alone and okay with it, is bullshit. I'm alone because I just am. You're alone because you made a choice. And it's the wrong fucking choice. — Samantha Young

People are like mussels. You can put them in a vat of boiling water, and some of them will pop open immediately. Some of them will have to float around in the water for a bit, then they'll slowly release. Others never open up at all, no matter what sort of hot water they're in. — Rhian J. Martin

Mindset & context are the 2 main ingredients entrepreneurs and leaders must use for creating sustainable real success — Tony Dovale

Do not sweat the small stuff. — Richard Carlson

All I wanted to do when I was a teenager was get dropped off at a radio station - one of the ones I listened to - and watch how the shows worked. After a point it was about showing up and driving people crazy, driving the van to promotions and sneaking on the air. — Ryan Seacrest

The worst thing in the world can happen, but the next day the sun will come up. And you will eat your toast. And you will drink your tea. — Rhian Ellis

Boredom is not in the world, but in the way we see the world. — Paulo Coelho

Are guilt and regret not messages from inside of us, letting us know that our moral compasses have been recalibrated and are pointing in the right direction? — Rhian J. Martin

I do not want [photography] explained to me in terms of ... formulas, learned, but so hopelessly unsatisfying. I do not want my butterfly stuck on a pin and put in a glass case. I want to see the sunlight on its wings as it flits from flower to flower and I don't care a rap what its Latin name may be. — Jacob August Riis

Such was the cyclical nature of Galway life: finding tragedy in the simple things and simplicity in the tragic things. — Rhian J. Martin

Money, while clearly helpful in solving myriad problems, can often conceal a business's real flaws. It can also risk rigidifying a company's business model at the very moment it should be in 'customer discovery' mode or iterating around market opportunities. — Maelle Gavet

Traveling, she realized, was like a slow dismemberment of the body. It plucked the heart out of her and split it into pieces, leaving a bit behind wherever she went, never to be whole again. — Rhian J. Martin

The two of them didn't know it at the time, but this was the only truly complete place in the entire world. — Haruki Murakami

How can poetry be something we study, but also something that makes us cry? — Rhian Williams

For once, I wished I wasn't so broken, so Rhian had a best friend who was strong and not afraid to love, to hold up as an example of what was possible. Instead, I was her excuse that she wasn't being irrational. I was her enabler. — Samantha Young

Dare to do what you dare to dream. — John Tortorella

Time limits tend to turn everything predictable and mundane into a novelty. — Rhian J. Martin

Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch. — John Allison

When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. — 1 Corinthians 13 11

I hate her with the fury of gasoline set on fire. I burn for Jenessa, who deserves better than this, better than some screwed-up, drug-addicted mother, better than this chaos that always seems to find us, rubbin' off on us like some horrible rash. — Emily Murdoch

It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth. — Rhian J. Martin

The optimist is a pessimist with a plan — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The benefit of carrying the entire world on your shoulders was that you didn't have to stare it in the face. — Rhian J. Martin