Tama Quotes & Sayings

It was strange how most of the time we got along so well, but then there were these periods when it was a good things the knives were in the drawer and not out on display. — Tama Janowitz

There is no higher qualification than genuine inspiration. — Tama J. Kieves

Run, run, run - with everything you have - into everything you are meant to be. — Tama J. Kieves

With publicity comes humiliation. — Tama Janowitz

Love does not call us to the dance only to deny us chances . There is consistency in this journey. As in the beginning, so shall it be in the middle and the end. Love does not tempt us to leave what we know, only to leave us without direction, resources, synergy and flow. — Tama J. Kieves

We live in a world that worships limitations — Tama J. Kieves

What is your real work? Is it that which pays the bills or is it your art? I think your real work is healing. Whatever helps you become more loving in this lifetime. Whatever helps you forgive yourself, embrace yourself, meet yourself, and free yourself in this lifetime. — Tama J. Kieves

Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day. — Tama Janowitz

Who says you can't rock Wall Street and wear purple at the same time? Jennifer Lee opens the door for artists, healers, and brilliant souls to take their passion into the marketplace. — Tama J. Kieves

Doing work you love is the dizzying path of saying yes to yourself and yes to a brilliant, hidden self you do not yet know. — Tama J. Kieves

I don't want my novel to be like Madame Bovary, finely crafted with the life edited out of it. I want my novel to be like a friend telling me a story
so we go off on thoughts; that's the way it is. — Tama Janowitz

I was like a social worker for lepers. My clients had a chunk of their body they wanted to give away; for a price I was there to receive it. — Tama Janowitz

Don't pressure yourself to target a market. Hit the mark instead. Pay homage to your own connection. Quantity flocks to quality and quality comes from purity. Purity wails. Integrity taps a nerve. Inspiration slips beneath the skin of yoru skin and turns disinterested strangers into warm-bodied kin. — Tama J. Kieves

You belong in the life of your dreams. And you don't belong anywhere else. — Tama J. Kieves

Transformation of any kind always exacts a holy tussle. The newborn butterfly struggles to open its wings so it can conjure up the strength to fly. So, too, with artists, inventors, mystics, and entrepreneurs. — Tama J. Kieves

Too often, preachers encourage us to worship Jesus, but Jesus simply invites us to follow him - his way of life, his way of experiencing God. We are invited to practice the spirituality of Jesus instead of a spirituality or religion about Jesus. — Preston Tama

You let go of fear by focusing on love. Love is the answer to fear. — Tama Kieves

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is. — Tama Janowitz

Kyouya my hair stylist. Mori-senpi go to the eye doctor and get him some contact lenses.
-Tamaki
What about me Tama-chan?
-Hunny
Hunny senpi.
-Tamaki
Yes sir!
-Hunny
You ... go have some cake.
-Tamaki
It's just us Ousa-chan.Everyone else said they were too busy ...
-Hunny — Bisco Hatori

Kaoru ... You keep talking about Hikaru. What about you? Aren't you hurting? I understand Hikaru's important to you ... but how do you plan to protect others if you can't look out for yourself? You have to be honest. If you go on like this, Hikaru won't be happy either. So what do you want, Kaoru? Forget about Hikaru and Tama for a moment ... What do *you* want? — Bisco Hatori

As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it. — Tama Janowitz

No one tape her deepest gifts through shame, guilt or anger. In fact, if you come from obligation, others smell the sadness in your blood and they will run the other way, — Tama Kieves

We don't choose our wildest dreams. They choose us. — Tama Kieves

...and it made me uncomfortable the way this guy was eating a scrawny chicken wing and looking at me. You know, I just wanted to tell him to knock it off and be a person. — Tama Janowitz

Give three hundred seconds to your dream. Take a tiny step with big integrity. It takes a step to break to break into a run. The result at hand doesn't matter. The resolve does. Show up for your love. Showing up always shines. — Tama J. Kieves

I don't like him...he makes me feel like he's going to throw me in a coffin and walk around on top of it. — Tama Janowitz

Crimes, sins, nightmares, hunks of hair: it was surprising how many of them has something to dispose of. The more I charged, the easier it was for them to breathe freely once more. — Tama Janowitz

Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face. — Tama Janowitz

I still play the same kit that I used on the very first album. It's an old Tama Superstar that I bought in 1983. — Reed Mullin

Just start dancing and the band will find you. — Tama J. Kieves

You are meant to succeed in the work you love. Your desire will take you all the way. — Tama J. Kieves

The worship of convention has never yet led to astonishment and a joyous leap in human potential. — Tama J. Kieves

When you're in transition, you will need to find a different kind of security. It's not one of labels, guarantees or bank balances. It's guidance - the directions of your own inner voice. Moment by moment you know what to do. You are safer than ever before. — Tama J. Kieves

Long after the bomb falls and you and your good deeds are gone, cockroaches will still be here, prowling the streets like armored cars. — Tama Janowitz

I think the love between a child and parent is wonderful. You know, Mei ... I haven't seen my mother for over two years. I used to live with her ... but now I live with my father. I used to be sad and wonder why it happened ... but parents have a lot of things they have to deal with too. I saw how they were suffering ... and I know they both love me a lot. You can't let loneliness harden your heart. Mei, you know ... Misuzu loves you, don't you? — Bisco Hatori

I felt my whole life was a facsimile of a life. — Tama Janowitz

It doesn't matter how you begin. Just jump in. Get moving. — Tama J. Kieves

Your talents are worth your devotion. Stop saying you don't have time or it might not make money. Your talents are another form of oxygen you need to breathe in this lifetime. — Tama J. Kieves

I had a hunger for things I knew realistically I didn't actually care for. — Tama Janowitz

Remember, the mind likes to window shop. It fancies the life in this boutique, then wants to try on the boots in another. But the soul invests all of itself. It's not as casual or as distracted by fashion, sales, promises or ease of acquisition. It's not interested in possibility. It pitches toward destiny. That's why you will never know a sense of ease, even when you come up with answers, unless you choose to listen to the answer that will take away all questions. — Tama Kieves

On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No. — Tama Janowitz

You could wait for the world to invite you to the banquet and the ball. Or you could just show up in your red dress and your headdress ready to boogie. — Tama J. Kieves

You can't force yourself to say "yes" to a bigger life. You will do it in your way. You will do it when smallness hurts too much. — Tama J. Kieves

You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time. — Tama Kieves

These is nothing divine about deprecating your gifts and talents or diminishing their worth in any way. Shining is sharing an abundance with us all. — Tama Kieves

I think the sixties must have been quite a lot of fun. — Tama Janowitz

Brownstein's is a fresh and jaunty voice, with a jazz snap all his own. — Tama Janowitz

Hunny: So Hikaru is being Mr. Blind ... while Tama obviously likes Haru, but he's too foolish to know it. Right, Takashi?
Mori: Probably ...
Hunny: And then there's Kaoru and Kyoya. One of them is also unaware of his feelings. Do you think there'll be any progress before we graduate?
Mori: I don't know ... — Bisco Hatori

WIth both trepidation and relief, I abandoned pragmatism in favor of magnetism. — Tama J. Kieves

You can live a life of either trusting your inner voice or distrusting your inner voice. You can cling to familiar expectations, conventions, and "reasonable" responses or you can listen to the sweet madness in your bones. — Tama J. Kieves

I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life. — Tama J. Kieves

At a mixer at the Art and Architecture School, I met Ray Connors. He had small, worried eyes and fine, babyish hair, already receding. His back was hurting him; two years ago he had fallen down an elevator shaft. He was graduating from the Architecture School in January. He went off to get me a glass of wine; by the time he came back, I had practically forgotten his existence. — Tama Janowitz

Life just turns deliciously quirky when you stop resisting yourself and, instead, honor the intuition that tugs at you like a puppy on a leash in the park. Follow the magic and magic starts to follow you. — Tama J. Kieves

If everyone is speaking caterpillar, don't be afraid to speak butterfly. When it's time to awaken, nothing else will suit you. — Tama J. Kieves