Quotes

"Success is a state of mind.  If you want success, start thinkingof yourself as a success."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers


Life is a disease, sexually transmitted and fatal.  - Neil Gaiman


A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
 Franz Kafka


Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
Franz Kafka


Now the sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.
Franz Kafka


There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness.
Franz Kafka


You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka


Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old. 
Franz Kafka



Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)



I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)


Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)


There are two main human sins from which all the others derive: impatience and indolence. It was because of impatience that they were expelled from Paradise, it is because of indolence that they do not return. Yet perhaps there is only one major sin: impatience. Because of impatience they were expelled, because of impatience they do not return.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
Dana Carvey (1955 - )


Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)


I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)



The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
 Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)


Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962)



There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.
Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000)




The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
Unknown Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900), Thus Spoke Zarathustra


We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or to other peoples' models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open.
Shakti Gawain




Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind.
Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.
Jawaharlal Nehru (1889 - 1964)


It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.
Lawana Blackwell, The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter, 1998



You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from

hours of exposure to a public face.
 Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005



In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
Edward P. Tryon



It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), Walden, 1854



The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything.
John Irving (1942 - )
  
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.
Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine


It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
 Lillian Hellman (1905 - 1984)




The idea of a mass audience was really an invention of the Industrial Revolution.
David Cronenberg, Rocketboom, 07-19-06


A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.
 David Coblitz



See things as they are and write about them. Don’t waste your creative energy trying to
make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 07-25-06



You are free, and that is why you are lost.
 Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)


Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul
according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)


You need not leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, simply wait, just learn to become quiet, still, and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)