Use Quotes - Page 178

As long as I have work then I'm not going to die, cause work is a living spirit in me - that which wants to connect with other people and pass on something to them which they can use in their own lives and grow from.

...she still cannot resist looking out the window every couple of minutes. The sound of a passing truck causes her to glance away. Even if there is no sound, the weight of a hundred seconds always turns her head.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

Every guitar I own gets used and has its purpose.

The more we consume, the more we want. And the more we want, the more we have to work to pay for all these things and insure them and then get stressed about them and protect them and get bigger houses. I think true freedom comes with letting go of them.

People think, 'Oh my goodness! I have to do something really big.' You don't. Do what you love. There's a great quote from a poet I use all the time: 'Instead of asking what the world needs, ask yourself what you love,' because what the world needs is more people doing what they love.

Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the motions of their own soul are necessarily unhappy.

But the customer is the final, final filter. What survives the whole process is what people wear. I'm not interested in making clothes that end up in some dusty museum.

I refuse to act the way someone expects me to.

Think of yourself as an insensitive, nitpicking, irritable fool to use the product.

Nothing comes from nothing.

I don't know if we'll ever get used to the attention from the fans.

I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

Nobody leaves a house where there is peace, joy and good sex.

So Pa sold the little house. He sold the cow and calf. He made hickory bows and fastened them upright to the wagon box. Ma helped him stretch white canvas over them.

We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber.

He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

I've never been more confused in my life, but at the same time I've never been more satisfied with what we've done.

You got one life, never use it just to breathe.

Processed foods cause inflammation, a source of most chronic illnesses as well as stress.

I think that objects have memories. I’m always thinking that I’ll go to the museum and see something and have a big memory about some other lifetime.

You can't turn a "no" to a "yes" without a "maybe" in between.