Stimulatory Quotes & Sayings

One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working. — Katherine Paterson

Everyone danced
sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound. — Holly Black

The human mind was very clever at tricking itself, at keeping the despair of inevitability at bay. — Brandon Sanderson

Dear Diary,
All that she left inside the box was a blank book and a name. You are the book, and I am the name...An-Ya. As you know, my name is printed on your first page. Did She write it? What did She look like as She stood over you with Her pen? Were there tears in Her eyes? Why were you left empty inside? — Diane Rene Christian

Another one, popular with inhabitants of northern Europe, invokes the supposed stimulatory effects of their homeland's cold climate and the inhibitory effects of hot, humid, tropical climates on human creativity and energy. Perhaps the seasonally variable climate at high latitudes poses more diverse challenges than does a seasonally constant tropical climate. Perhaps cold climates require one to be more technologically inventive to survive, because one must build a warm home and make warm clothing, whereas one can survive in the tropics with simpler housing and no clothing. Or the argument can be reversed to reach the same conclusion: the long winters at high latitudes leave people with much time in which to sit indoors and invent. — Jared Diamond

Jesus is the only Savior, but not everybody who is saved by Him is aware that He is the one who is doing the saving. — Tony Campolo

Yes, I would loved to have just sustained myself through my art, but less than one in a billion musicians gets that life. So rather than being like, 'I'm an exception!', like a moron, I thought I'd get a real job. — Mary Lambert

What are gods, after all, if not the perfect victims? — Steven Erikson

Do you know that scientific teams throughout the world have studied the act of swinging? Studies have shown that repetitive self-stimulatory behavior such as rocking or swaying releases endorphins, which reduce the sensation of pain and have the ability to block pain. — Shelley Coriell

Thirdly, Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition. — John Pearson