Category: writer
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The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
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Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.
Alan Watts
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People complain about my exclamation points, but I honestly think that’s the way people think. I don’t think people think in essays; it’s one exclamation point to another.
Tom Wolfe
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America is not nearly done. We’re only in the beginning. Who knows who we will be? Who knows… what color we will be? It is all something that, maybe, our descendants – if they survive that long – will see.
Alice Walker
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Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we’re also dark people with dark thoughts.
Zadie Smith
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Tears are the silent language of grief.
Voltaire
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Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
William Shakespeare
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My absolute favourite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.
Douglas Adams
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A lot of times, people make other people responsible for their joy: ‘You’re not making me happy, you’re not doing this, you’re not doing that.’
Joyce Meyer