Woher Wohin Quotes & Sayings

As soon as I have begun to fear I have ceased to fear. — Friedrich Schiller

The thing about the heart was that you could not coax it or force it, as you could any other disease. Will power meant nothing. — Michael Shaara

It's always uncomfortable for me when I take off my shirt. No one else is taking their shift off. Why is everyone else in these movies bundled up in layers of clothing and I'm taking my clothes off all the time? — Taylor Lautner

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it. — Louise Fitzhugh

Although watching TV is far from being a positive experience - generally people report feeling passive, weak, rather irritable, and sad when doing it - at least the flickering screen brings a certain amount of order to consciousness. The predictable plots, familiar characters, and even the redundant commercials provide a reassuring pattern of stimulation. The screen invites attention to itself as a manageable, restricted aspect of the environment. While interacting with television, the mind is protected from personal worries. The information passing across the screen keeps unpleasant concerns out of the mind. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you. — Wayne Dyer

Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255 — Susan Howatch

A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is the peculiar nature of the world to go on spinning no matter what sort of heartbreak is happening. — Sue Monk Kidd

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books. — Emma Donoghue