Writer Quotes

A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.

I release all feelings of worry and guilt. Throughout life, the two most futile emotions are guilt for what has been done and worry about what might be done.

It is impossible to be both selfish and happy.

People are too prone to think that the actual is the limit of possibility. They believe that all that has been done is all that can be done.

Every relationship in your organization will affect you one way or another. Those who do not increase you will inevitably decrease you.

I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

Seek people who seek solutions.

You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

Give something back by becoming more

I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being.

When I was a kid, I thought history was the most boring subject of all. I shouldn't blame my teachers; I should blame me, but I'll blame them.

Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness.

If only the best birds sang, the forest would be silent.

Relationships are the foundation of leadership.

The more you recognize and express gratitude for the things you have, the more you will have to express gratitude for.

Overwhelment is about you not being up to speed with what you told the Universe that you want. The Universe is yielding to you. You're just not ready to receive it right now.

The mind left to itself creates monstrosities, and not only in art galleries. Look at our urban landscapes and industrial wastelands. No civilization has ever produced so much ugliness.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Focus on your marriage. Because that's the nucleus of the home, whatever you do to restore its health and strength will naturally restore what's broken among the other relationships. If you have no children yet, this will make a comfortable nest for them to begin life well. If you have children, the changes you make in your marriage will affect the rest of the household more quickly and dramatically than you think.

A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job.

Your life is big. Keep reaching.

I wanted to become me, totally me. The more me, the better. I instinctively knew this and I was right.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness." -Leo Buscaglia (1924-1998)

How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?

A big shot is a little shot who keeps on shootin'

It is as true as that night follows day, that the man who does more than he is paid for, and does it in a pleasant mental attitude, sooner or later is paid for more than he does.

The fact is: You are not a manager of circumstance, you're the architect of your life's experience.

Enthusiasm is intensified enjoyment of what you are doing.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

There is never a crowd on the leading edge.

While everyone exercises influence, the size and strength of our influence depends upon our effort. No one leads well without paying the price of discipline. As we push ourselves to grow and to learn, we enlarge our sphere of influence.

There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty.

It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.

See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.

Did you ever notice how difficult it is to argue with someone who is not obsessed with being right?

You see, in life, lots of people know what to do, but few people actually do what they know. Knowing is not enough! You must take action.

For, after all, every one who wishes to gain true knowledge must climb the Hill Difficulty alone, and since there is no royal road to the summit, I must zigzag it in my own way. I slip back many times, I fall, I stand still, I run against the edge of hidden obstacles, I lose my temper and find it again and keep it better, I trudge on, I gain a little, I feel encouraged, I get more eager and climb higher and begin to see the widening horizon. Every struggle is a victory. One more effort and I reach the luminous cloud, the blue depths of the sky, the uplands of my desire.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

There was an old Woman who lived in a shoe She had so many children Her government subsidy check came to $4,892.

While companies were getting comfy cozy with the idea of being on social media platforms, social media transcended those platforms, and few businesses have followed.

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less likely a future argument will take place on the same subject.

It's true, spectacular preparation always precedes spectacular performance.

If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone.

I think passion and discipline are wonderful, complementary things.

Affirm: I place no limits and no restrictions on all that I intend to accomplish and become from here on in.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren't happening.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. The Roman philosopher Tacitus rightly observed that 'the desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.' If uncertainty is unacceptable to you, it turns into fear. If it is perfectly acceptable, it turns into aliveness, alertness and creativity.

Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.

A genuine relationship is one that is not dominated by the ego with its image-making and self-seeking. In a genuine relationship, there is an outward flow of open, alert attention toward the other person in which there is no wanting whatsoever.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Choose to be in close proximity to people who are empowering...wh o see the greatness in you!

When you're the most successful person in your family, in your neighborhood, and in your town, everybody thinks you're the First National Bank, and you have to figure out for yourself where those boundaries are.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done, and those who don't want to make mistakes.