Sielun Quotes & Sayings

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs. — H.L. Mencken

Opinions are the cheapest commodities on earth. Everyone has a flock of opinions ready to be wished upon anyone who will accept them. If you are influenced by "opinions" when you reach DECISIONS, you will not succeed in any undertaking. — Napoleon Hill

It's closeness that does you in. Never get too close to people, son. — Anne Tyler

There's a humorous side to every situation. The challenge is to find it. — George Carlin

Love is an uphill climb, but once you know yourself and like yourself just as you are, it's all downhill from there. — Valerie Frankel

We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on. — Haruki Murakami

Writing ... is an addiction, an illusory release, a presumptuous taming of reality, a way of expressing lightly the unbearable. That we age and leave behind this litter of dead, unrecoverable selves is both unbearable and the commonest thing in the world - it happens to everybody. In the morning light one can write breezily, without the slight acceleration of one's pulse, about what one cannot contemplate in the dark without turning in panic to God. In the dark one truly feels that immense sliding, that turning of the vast earth into darkness and eternal cold, taking with it all the furniture and scenery, and the bright distractions and warm touches, of our lives. Even the barest earthly facts are unbearably heavy, weighted as they are with our personal death. Writing, in making the world light - in codifying, distorting, prettifying, verbalizing it - approaches blasphemy. — John Updike

Sometimes, attaining the impossible was simply a matter of continuously putting one foot in front of the other, no matter what. — Drew Hayes

I revere you. I esteem and admire you above all human beings. You are the friend to whom my soul is attached as to its better half. You are the most amiable, the most perfect of women. And you are dearer to me than language has the power of telling ... You are now all my own ... How will my soul find room for its happiness? It seems already bursting! — Fanny Burney

I like challenging myself. I'm not a person who likes not to work. — Tony McCoy

My strength as a singer is my versatility. I find it really frustrating when I'm only expected to show off. The music industry is awash with female acrobats. What happens to the song, and treating it for its sake and not as an ego example? — Alison Moyet

I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. — Kathryn Lasky