It Is In Things. Quotes

Taking drugs is stupid. Why mess up your brain like that?

Tears are kind of like urine. There is only so long you can hold them in.

Stick to a task, 'til it sticks to you. Beginners are many, finishers are few." -Anonymous, as quoted in Small and Simple Things.

Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.

I understood drinking to be the gasoline of all adventure.

God will be there for you when no one else is. He will walk with you on every mountain. He will carry you through every valley. He will never leave you or forsake you. You don't need me

Your truth isn't everybody else's truth.

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Perhaps that is the only cure for jealousy, to realize that the people we resent and envy for having what we lack, probably have woundsand scars of their own. They may even be envying us.

Look at the language. If a scientist delivers the simple, unconditional, absolutely certain statements that politicians and journalists want, he is talking as an activist, not a scientist.

Wisdom simplifies the things

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us." "You're joking.""Wish I was.

If I can’t garden in it, then I won’t wear it.

The monsoons were the real thing

One should not inquire too closely where ancient legends about the gods are concerned

The sun shines on all and all alike, It's not surprising that we feel good when we immerse ourselves in nature.

[B]egin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while or the light won’t come in.

When we care, we share.

The success of any kind of social epidemic is heavily dependent on the involvement of people with a particular and rare set of social gifts.

In the six degrees of separation, not all degrees are equal.

How can you make efficiency a habit, and an enjoyable one at that?

So Shakespeare stole

These days, the bigger the company, the less you can figure out what it does.

Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.

The things you are afraid of

If we take a risk, we might not succeed, but if we avoid all risk, we guarantee we won't succeed, and we miss so much of what God wants us to learn.

There comes a time in one’s life, perhaps in middle age, when we stop and assess who we are, and the life we have.

I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.

Do not ask questions until you have trained yourself not to know the answers.

A comment that starts with the words "I think" usually means the opposite.

[T]he atoms or elementary particles themselves are not real

It was like bouncing tennis balls off a mystery piece of furniture and deducing, from the direction in which the balls ricocheted, whether it was a chair or a table or a Welsh dresser.

There are three perquisites for living:1. Be yourself.2. Get over yourself (Things people have done to you

Someone said that if you're lonely at the top, it's because you didn't take anyone with you.

Many are called, few are chosen.

How to partner with the power of the cosmos to fulfill your destiny

A second chance is a direct pathway to a grateful heart and an astonished mind.

The best way to vanquish your enemies on the Internet? Ignore them.

Every artist gets asked the question, “Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.

Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.

Sometimes we get so caught up in appearing smart that we become afraid to ask the question that will actually make us smart.

Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.

Stress level: extreme. It's like she was a jar with the lid screwed on too tight, and inside the jar were pickles, angry pickles, and they were fermenting, and about to explode.

The new disease of our age is being OK doing everything at exactly the same time.

Who else but a lover retains the ability to wound the other person with such passion, such precision? And who else but that lover has the capacity to heal what he or she has done?

It's okay to keep a broken oven in your yard as long as you call it art.

It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

In good time every secret must be shared and every miracle called into question.

I'm the old type setter who gets his blood poisoned from the ink.