quotes

"Don't just talk, act."

"Laughter is the most important paradise of life."

"Either plan your life or get ready to get lost."

"Life, for the living, is a gift of opportunity; an exercise of the will to choose."

"She said she was a nurse. I replied that she must have a lot of patience—and patients. I would have said more, but I ran out of homophones."

"Broken hearts, you can run, you can hide and perhaps the earth is big enough to believe you’re safe. So maybe for a moment you have escaped but hear me, hear me well. Love will find you and it will leave nothing behind."

"Deep love for humanity is a vaccine for depression."

"It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest."

"Time is standing still, but we are running away from it and complaining that time is slipping away from us."

"The universe is a mirror—if you smile at her, she smiles at you with joy."

"The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within."

"I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this.[Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992]"

"Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong."

"Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be."

"Whatever fills your heart with joy and fills your mind with love--that is your truth of love."

"Do your actions define who you are, or does your purpose define why you are?"

"Bling"is not an indication of riches. It is a product of value-based spending, to enrich the pockets of those outside of ones sphere of influence...the haves' bleeding the have-nots'."

"You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music."

"The universe is inside you; you are the cosmic power."

"How beautiful would it be if we could just see souls instead of bodies? To see love and compassion instead of curves."