“Honor is the only really good disguise for an occasional act of dishonor.”
Thoughtful feeling
Thoughtful Quotes — page 228 of 303
“I relate to happiness as an ecstatic moment - something you don't create, you encounter.”
“When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.”
“Whatever it is, people have issues and that affects you deeply. So you have to get to the bottom of it and not let that affect your life decisions and really understand why you're making the decisions you make so that way you can understand how to not do that, so I always encourage people to ask why and then to really understand you, because that's the only way to be your most successful and your most happy.”
“I think everyone deals with things in their own way. Everybody's different. My family are all different. None of us are the same. We all deal with different things in different ways. I think it's about knowing yourself, what pushes your buttons, and figuring out how to work with yourself.”
“I came to graduate school with a certain vocabulary about how to talk about other people's stories, but I couldn't understand how to look at my own stories in that way. And that was what made editing such a challenge for me.”
“Sometimes sentiments were better left in song.”
“The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.”
“The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate dressing any longer, as I know because my wardrobe is interchangeable with my daughter's.”
“Some things are private. Some things needed to be said, even when the person who needed to hear them couldn’t hear anything. Ever again.”
“If you want to call yourself my friend, you should know that position comes with boundaries." Sabine frowned. "I'm no good with boundaries." "Yes, and the ocean is damp. Can we be done with the understatements now?”
“I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.”
“I wonder how I seem to them. They must see someone I don't see. Someone capable and strong. Someone I can't be; someone I can be.”
“You know what Abnegation used to say about pride?' 'Something unfavorable,I assume.' I laugh.' Obviously. They said it blinds people to the truth of what they are.”
“I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.”
“But I think that no matter how smart, people usually see what they're already looking for, that's all.”
“Guilt [is] a tool, rather than a weapon against the self.”
“I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.”
“Why do you say vague things if you don't want to be asked about them?”
“I try to leave some space in my mind for things to surprise me or change my mind, I think that's important.”