E.L. James Quotes
This is a cliché, but never listen to anyone who says “You can’t do that”. Those are usually the people who can’t do it. Not you.
It's easy to get anonymous people to hate you. Have an opinion. Be creative. Be yourself.
It's very important to enjoy what you're doing or else you are always going to procrastinate.
A lot of times, people send me emails, and then I forget about them, or I never respond to them, or I respond to them weeks later.
I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.
Requirements are for people who want to be unhappy. Because it’s your rules or the universe’s rules. The universe is going to win. Every time.
Help is a conversation. If one side talks too much, the other side will get bored. So make sure you help back when you can.
We’re taught at an early age that we’re not good enough. That someone else has to choose us in order for us to be…what? Blessed? Rich? Certified? Legitimized? Educated? Partnership material?
Everyone is different. We all suffer from the disease of being human. There are a thousand cures but no antidotes.
When people give you their stated reason for doing something always assume they are giving you a reason that sounds good, but not the real reason.
I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.
Mistakes I've made in the past make me afraid to try new things in the future. I want to be perfect.
I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism although that's part of it but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
Being a leader doesn't mean you created something or you did something great in the past or some other person has given you any kind of authority.
Honesty is about the scars. Its about the blemishes. But its more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. Its about truly helping people.
Hold your breath. Try holding your breath for just thirty seconds. That’s all it takes. Try it right now while you are looking at this line. Now…on the twenty-ninth second, do any opinions matter?
Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.
The big thing in life is to focus on providing more value to people than they expect. The rest comes then.
The first duty of an historian is to be on his guard against his own sympathies...
Those who seek for something more than happiness in this world must not complain if happiness is not their portion.
Life is change, to cease to change is to cease to live; yet if you may shed a tear beside the death-bed of an old friend, let not your heart be silent on the dissolving of a faith.
The best that we can do for one another is to exchange our thoughts freely; and that, after all, is about all.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore, to treat them as if they were equal.
Every one of us ... knows better than he practices, and recognizes a better law than he obeys.
Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.
Truth only smells sweet forever, and illusions, however innocent, are deadly as the canker worm.
Men think to mend their condition by a change of circumstances. They might as well hope to escape from their shadows.
I scarcely know a professional man I can like, and certainly not one who has been what the world calls successful, that I should the least wish to resemble.
But the world was also so constructed, owing to the nature of the Maker of it, that superior strength was found in the long run to lie with those who had the right on their side.
I would sooner perish for ever than stoop down before a Being who may have power to crush me, but whom my heart forbids me to reverence.
The moral of human life is never simple, and the moral of a story which aims only at being true to human life cannot be expected to be any more so.
Man is a real man, and can live and act manfully in this world, not in the strength of opinions, not according to what he thinks, but according to what he is .
We are complex, and therefore, in our natural state, inconsistent, beings, and the opinion of this hour need not be the opinion of the next.
Woe to the unlucky man who as a child is taught, even as a portion of his creed, what his grown reason must forswear.
The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.
I cannot think the disputes and jealousies of Heaven are tried and settled by the swords of earth.
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them.
What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
