R- THE DON Quotes

- because just by hating it’s possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..

He easily gathered her in his arms

I've many reasons why I believe that every individual I meet is a greatness material

Live in this moment because this moment is the only thing that's real and the only time that you can create greatness.

I am the false character that follows the name around.

The ignorance we’re ignorant of is the ignorance most difficult to remedy.

As a father, we need to actively listen.

Quality time is not the same as the everydayness of being together. Let’s neither glorify nor undervalue.

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

What you see will hurt you

The free market has never worked in agriculture and it never will. The economics of a family farm are very different from a firm's... the demand for food isn't elastic

Reading haiku is as much an art as writing it. The reader needs to pause and listen to the silences, to feel the spaces between the words, and to journey into the depths of many multi-colored worlds.

Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions

It's not the things I don't understand about the Bible that bother me

All high mathematics serves to do is to beget higher mathematics.

There are reasons to doubt that what we call the laws of physics necessarily apply everywhere in the universe—or that they were applicable to every time in its history.

Happiness is one of your core entitlements on earth

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, ” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

Lovers are not snails

Lovers are like kids

Our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Jealousy always trumps schadenfreude! It’s a rule from the heartbreak version of ‘rock, paper, scissors.

All that incoherence. Selection, election, option, alternative. All behind him now. Codes and formats. Courses of action. Values, bias, predilection. Choice is a subtle form of disease.

We feel a private thrill, admit it, at the sight of beauty in flames. We wish to blast all the fine old things to oblivion and replace them with tasteless identicalstructures.

It seemed to us that all people to a greater or lesser degree belong to one of these two types, that almost every one of us resembles either Don Quixote or Hamlet.

Express your emotions in a multidimensional manner. Don’t just speak

Truth, justice and the American way. The American way is: truth and justice maybe say hello in the hallway, send each other a Christmas card, but that’s about the extent of their relationship.

God made big people. And God made little people. But Colt made the .45 to even things up.

...evolution propels itself by an inclination toward its next probable achievement." ("Desire")

I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people—

Don't buy books for your shelf, buy them for yourself.

Doubt births negative confessions

The fight for joy is first and always a fight to see.

Happiness is the little moments of joy you give yourself every single day, living a life in con stant pursuit of happy and joyous moments.

She closed her eyes. Said the four most comforting words she knew: "Once upon a time." An incantation.

Even if you're in the thick of revising another work, write something new. Something small. It's important to keep telling yourself stories.

A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimist.

Being brave is about the everyday points of bravery that when taken together and viewed from a collective perspective make for an extraordinary life of love.

I wanted to say a lot but wasn't sure where to start

Do what makes you happy

Stop being an adrenaline junkie who is waiting for the happy ending instead of seeing the happy being.

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I’ll stay.

Do good and be a good person because that’s just what the Lord expects. There just ain’t nothing special about being and doing good. It’s what the Lord expects…

I was there laughing and joking with everyone else, but it’s like there was some part of mestanding back, watching, thinking, “Is this as good as it gets?

When we say ‘Yes’ to something we are always saying‘No’ to something else. So in that way, we never ‘don’t do’ anything. We are just doing something else.

You cannot simultaneously want to eat a chocolate cake every day in front of the TV and want to be slim. You cannot want to be single and carefree and want to be in a loving, exclusive relationship

Communication can be sent or received through verbal or nonverbal cues.

Communication is the lifeblood of an organization.

Intrapersonal communication is a reflection of our daily messages.

A key to healthy problem solving is good communication.