Times - Quotes
Lie down too many times - make a habit of showing your soft belly - and you forfeited the spine it takes to get up.
A lot of times when people make accusations like that about other people - "Oh, he can't really be doing this for principled reasons, he must have some corrupt, nefarious reason" - they're saying a lot more about themselves than they are the target of their accusations, because those people, the ones who make that accusation, they themselves never act for any reason other than corrupt reasons, so they assume that everybody else is plagued by the same disease of soullessness as they are, and so that's the assumption.
Break my heart. Break it a thousand times if you like. It was only ever yours to break anyway.
I know firsthand that challenging times often come first before the most rewarding moments.
How many times have you heard that "more is better, " "fake it ‘til you make it, " or "clothes make the man?" They tell us that more stuff means more happiness, when in fact, more stuff often means more headaches and more debt.
Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed - sometimes it covers you just fine, and other times it leaves you cold and shaking; and worst of all, you never know which of the two it`s going to be.
Life is pain! I wake up every morning in pain! Work is pain! You know how many times I just wanted to give up? How many times I`ve thought about ending it?
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way.
We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends. But those rare times when we do open up, it`s amazing how minor those secrets all end up seeming.
It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I`ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
I make lots of mistakes. I try hard not to make the same mistake more than three or four times.
There are times in this harum-scarum world when figuring out the right thing to do is quite simple, but doing the right thing is simply impossible, and then you must do something else.
You see, now fear often fingers your heart,
and at times the world seems only distant news;
the old trees guard your childhood for you
as an ever more ancient memory.