Vince Van Patten Quotes & Sayings

This village is a real trap. Bit by bit it will eat up every single person who remain here. This place will never change. — Rabindranath Maharaj

The more time you can put between you and your manuscript, the more fresh your eyes become and the more mistakes you'll catch. Let a chapter rest for a day, you'll see ways to improve it. Let your completed book rest a month or more and you'll see stuff that's long or that you want to skip. Read it out loud to get rid of awkward phrases and listen to your critique partners if they are good. — Dan Alatorre

Shockingly (to maybe only me), being in a relationship has done the opposite of limiting me. It's emboldened me to try something much scarier than I would have tried if I were alone. Maybe Rachel the Hasidic journalist was right: love frees you to be the person you actually are. — Kristin Newman

When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. — Hermann Hesse

It would hurt. But we'll dust ourselves off and we'll come back. — Gerry Schwartz

If I'm working this hard in the morning, I'd prefer it be because my man has woken me up with an eight-inch nudge. — Erin McCarthy

The inevitable triumph of illusion over reality that was the single most obvious truth about the history of the human race. — Salman Rushdie

Eschew wicked company and associate with saintly persons. Acquire virtue day and night, and always meditate on that which is eternal forgetting that which is temporary. — Chanakya

I'm a B+ student of life. — Chang-rae Lee

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument. — Robert Half

I still think that luck is what a lot of the good things come from. It's simply the luck of where you are, when. — Mike Nichols