Vecas Kartes Quotes & Sayings

What you focus on always gets better. — Robin Sharma

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about. — Peter Jacobson

True love should be, according to its origin, entirely arbitrary and entirely accidental at the same time; it should seem both necessary and free; in keeping with its nature, however, it should be both destiny and virtue and appear as a mystery and a miracle. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Ignorance is the necessary condition, i do not say of happiness, but of life itself. If we knew everything, we could not endure existence a single hour. The sentiments that make it sweet to us, or at any rate tolerable, spring from a falsehood, and are fed on illusions.
If, like God, a man possessed the truth, the sole and perfect truth, and once let it escape out of his hands, the world would be annihilated there and then, and the universe melt away instantly like a shadow. — Anatole France

I'm crazy enough to believe that maybe I'll never lose a fight. — Jon Jones

It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point that always nagged, even if you couldn't admit to yourself that it did. — Leslie Jamison

Strife, only a slight thing when she first rears her head but her head soon hits the sky as she strides across the earth. — Homer

Just get to lunch," I muttered to myself.
It was the only way I could control my anxiety. In 1998, I'd made it through Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL, or BUD/S, by focusing on just making it to the next meal. It didn't matter if I couldn't feel my arms as we hoisted logs over our heads or if the cold surf soaked me to the core. It wasn't going to last forever. There is a saying: "How do you eat an elephant?" The answer is simple: "One bite at a time." Only my bites were separated by meals: Make it to breakfast, train hard until lunch, and focus until dinner. Repeat. — Mark Owen

It's hard to think of yourself as a loser at 2 years old. — Jeff Foxworthy

Late at night I go out and listen to the wind. That's all the wisdom I need. I mean, I love books, but shoot, most of the world's wisdom is not contained in books. — Sherman Alexie

Levi celebrates the Pharisees scowl. — Jonah Books

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity. — Barbra Streisand

On account of disastrous losses in Wall Street that morning, I had determined to kill myself. I'm not of much account, any way, and I was desperate. I knew Uncle Robert would give me no money to repay my stock losses, for he always thought speculation no better than any other sort of gambling - and it isn't. — Carolyn Wells

Surely the writer is to address a world of laborers, and such therefore must be his own discipline. — Henry David Thoreau

You say you don't see any part of me. To love in all this mess and I know. You take the good and all the bad that comes with me. — Sara Quin