“I have a paper cut from writing my suicide note. It's a start.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 58 of 313
“I ended up getting drafted by the Colorado Rockies on June 8, 2010 and the next day, my dad passed away, in June 9, 2010. So I'm at the biggest high of my life on June 8th. And the next day, June 9th, he's gone.”
“Your task? To work with all the passion of your being to acquire an inner light.”
“I think we can all use a little more patience. I get a little impatient sometimes and I wish I didn't. I really need to be more patient.”
“The more difficult it is to forgive someone the greater the opportunity for spiritual growth.”
“Eloquence may set fire to reason.”
“I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.”
“Through my grandmother's stories always life moved, moved heroically toward an end. Nobody ever cried in my grandmother's stories. They worked, or schemed, or fought. But no crying. When my grandmother died, I didn't cry, either. Something about my grandmother's stories (without her ever having said so) taught me the uselessness of crying about anything."”
“There is no greater fault than sensual indulgence. There is no greater misfortune than malcontent. There is no greater calamity than greed.”
“Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that.”
“There is no such thing as a lazy person; he is either sick or uninspired.”
“Nothing is more inspiring than a person with seemingly mediocre talent rising against the odds to become a champion by way of hard work, effort, and perseverance toward their goals.”
“The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair.”
“Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her. Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night.”
“The marble keeps merely a cold and sad memory of a man who would else be forgotten. No man who needs a monument ever ought to have one.”
“Eyes as black and as shiny as chips of obsidian stared back into his. They were eyes like black holes, letting nothing out, not even information.”
“You can only learn by opening yourself up to engage with different sources of information. How can you learn something if you never see it, read it, or hear it?”
“If you're a big Nirvana fan, a big Hole fan, then I understand why you would want to get to know me, but I'm not my parents.”
“Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form.”
“The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides.”