R- THE DON Quotes

Forget about the Past

Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

Love and war are exactly alike. It is lawful to use tricks and slights to obtain a desired end.

Reckon it's best if you don't have anyone you care about

Don't live in the castles

They got the absolute freedom to choose what we want them to.

Lord, my hands were made for blessing, but not my feet!

I swear to hold my tongue about it till the end of your worship's days, and God grant I may be able to let it out tomorrow

Some of my best friends are women, ' I snapped, 'though I certainly wouldn't want my daughter to marry one of them.

You were born to shine

Your mind is a ship

All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.

Women know intuitively when they are being devalued. (121)

...but once more I say do as you please, for we women are born to this burden of being obedient to our husbands, though they be blockheads

A woman lives a life of contradictions wrapped inside paradoxes wrapped inside a big candy wrapper.

It's like people don't only look good when they look like a magazine. People can be aesthetically beautiful in the way sunsets and leaves and things are.

The fact that we can't see the beauty in something doesn't suggest that it's not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully enough or with a broad enough perspective to see it.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

Mmm, bacon.

Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' goldAnd like the sky my soul is also turnin'Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind

What, then, is the soul but a prisoner of your flesh? An undying yet constrained energy, bound and enslaved within a shuffling, steadily rotting suit of tissue and savage needs?

Leaders heal

Leaders do not chase comfort

I want what we all want, " said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

I'm completely aware of Matisse and what he said, that painters must begin by cutting out their tongues.

Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book

Contrary to popular belief, my experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

I was too much of a Bronx kid to read Emerson or Hawthorne.

You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.

Our conduct has a direct influence on how people think about the gospel. The world doesn't judge us by our theology

Be an example

I'm a giant pimple on the face of humanity.

When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him: 'Whose?

Work is the greatest thing in the world. So we should save some of it for tomorrow.

What is it like to be a Spokane Indian without wild salmon? It is like being a Christian if Jesus had never rolled back the stone and risen from his tomb.

Every honorable man is forced to yield to blackmail once or twice in his life, just for the sake of keeping peace in the community.

If you want your life to stand for peace and kindness, it's helpful to do kind, peaceful things.

Real peace goes beyond explanation.

Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being.

There is nothing you lack and all you will find

Do your best

Let your dream bloom

Write what you believe to be true

I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?

Let's live a lie for today.You’ll spin talesand pretend to love me.And I'll smile

Don't forget to wish your husband good-morning when he sets off to the office. He will feel the lack of your good-bye kiss all day.

Nothing makes sense, not that much of the world ever did." Quote from the book: "UnHoly Pursuit: The Devil on My Trail.

Practice is a great contributor to success, but you have to be careful what you practice.

I didn't just hear music. It seemed as if I were part of the music.