Traumatically Caused Quotes & Sayings

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job. — Christopher Durang

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence. — Al Jarreau

I don't understand this at all. I don't understand any of this. Why does a story have to be socio-anything? Politics ... culture ... history ... aren't those natural ingredients in any story, if it's told well? I mean ... ' He looks around, sees hostile eyes, and realizes dimly that they see this as some sort of attack. Maybe it even is. They are thinking, he realizes, that maybe there is a sexist death merchant in their midst. 'I mean ... can't you guys just let a story be a story? — Stephen King

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends to organise itself in a pyramid. I could pick a male narrator from somewhere in that pyramid. It would interesting. — Margaret Atwood

If you shift your focus from oneself to others, and think more about others' well-being and welfare, it has an immediate liberating effect. — Dalai Lama

Time itself is an individual gift. It is wise to cherish it carefully and give it away generously. — Maya Angelou

Introverts just just don't buzz as easily. — Susan Cain

I think what everyone should be doing, before it's too late, is committing themselves to what they really want to do with their lives. — Matthieu Ricard

Listen, Stephen King used to write in the washroom of his trailer after his kids went to sleep. Harlan Ellison wrote in the stall of a bathroom of his barracks during boot camp. Elmore Leonard got up at 5 AM every morning to write before work.
Every time my alarm goes off at 5 AM and I don't want to get up, or I would rather sit down after work and play a videogame, I think about those guys. Take care of your family. They need you and love you. Make time for them. Then stop screwing around and finish your damn book. — Bernard Schaffer

I was not born for death and yet I have died a thousand times, he thought. And now I am born again for these hard times. — Kathryn Lasky

Unfortunately, there are so many people who live their whole life in a place that is safe and protected and simple and they don't really have that strength inside to fly. — Andrew Shue

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life. — Richard P. Feynman