I’m not perfect; no, I step in shit all the time and recognize it when I do. I’ve just learned how to scrape it off my boots and carry on.
– from Greenlights book by Matthew McConaughey
Category: Quotes
When a woman marries again, it …
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
– from The Picture of Dorian Gray book by Oscar Wilde
Being a parent makes you feel …
Being a parent makes you feel like a blanket that’s always too small. No matter how hard you try to cover everyone, there’s always someone who’s freezing.
– from Beartown book by Fredrik Backman
If you have money you have …
If you have money you have risk. You don’t get to choose not to have risk, you only get to choose what kind.
– from The Simple Path to Wealth book by J. L. Collins
Too much sugar leads to a …
Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
When you love someone, you want …
When you love someone, you want to make this world look different for them. To give all the ugly stuff meaning, and amplify the good. That’s what you do.
– from Beach Read book by Emily Henry
I suppose to be truly successful …
I suppose to be truly successful at any pursuit, you have to fall in love with it, surrender to its gravitational pull, allow it to carry you off to that world of giddy sleeplessness.
– from Just as I Am book by Cicely Tyson
People universally tend to think that …
People universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you’re fortunate enough. But that’s not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
– from Eat, Pray, Love book by Elizabeth Gilbert
Our lives are a blink of …
Our lives are a blink of a firefly in the night. You’re just barely here. You have to make the most of every minute.
– from The Almanack of Naval Ravikant book by Eric Jorgenson
The power of ignorance is never …
The power of ignorance is never to be underestimated. It is very powerful and the world is ruled by it most of the time. You think your knowledge, your fire, your Enlightenment will do things, but the Enlightened are always an individual, the ignorant are in masses. There is a huge power to that.
– from Death; An Inside Story book by Sadhguru