Syst Matique V G Tale Quotes & Sayings

There is something suspect about our inability to enjoy anything. — Chogyam Trungpa

Decisive results come sooner from sudden shocks than from long- drawn pressure. Shocks throw the opponent off his balance. Pressure allows him time to adjust himself to it. That military lesson is closely linked with the general experience of history that human beings have an almost infinite power of accommo-' dation, to degradation of living conditions, so long as the process is gradual. — B.H. Liddell Hart

You cannot keep your eyes on the bloody footprints you have left behind you. You must keep your eyes on where you are going. — Tim Tingle

Feel that your body is like a bundle of flowers. When someone gives you flowers you enjoy their beauty, their purity. But you realize that, one day, the flowers will wither and fade. — Frederick Lenz

It is a principle that the right to a thing gives a right to the means without which it could not be used, that is to say, that the means follow their end. — Thomas Jefferson

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent. — Mohsin Hamid

Japanese is sort of a hobby of mine, and I can get around Japan with ease. — Dick Cavett

Poetry: three mismatched shoes at the entrance of a dark alley.
— Charles Simic

But the more I read ... after awhile ... I begin to find they were all writing about the same thing, this same dull old here-today-gone-tomorrow scene ... Shakespeare, Milton, Matthew Arnold, even Baudelaire, even this cat whoever he was that wrote Beowulf ... the same scene for the same reasons and to the same end, whether it was Dante with his pit or Baudelaire with his pot ... the same dull old scene ... — Ken Kesey

There is no substitute for finding true purpose. But the true or primary purpose of your life cannot be found on the outer level. It does not concern what you do but what you are - that is to say, your state of consciousness. — Eckhart Tolle

The best big idea is only going to be as good as its implementation. — Jay Samit

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Worry doesn't change a single thing. Just live. — Lynn Austin

What's it like, Lexy? You wake up and you feel - what? Heaviness, an ache inside, a weight, yes. A soft crumpling of the flesh. A feeling like all the surfaces inside you have been rubbed raw. A voice in your head - no, not voices, not like hearing voices, nothing that crazy, just your own inner voice, the one that says 'Turn left at the corner' or 'Don't forget to stop at the post office,' only now it's saying, 'I hate myself.' It's saying, 'I want to die.' — Carolyn Parkhurst

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council. — Joseph Smith Jr.