The Odd

“You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.”

“It’s a slow process, but quitting won’t speed it up.”

“I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

“There’s zero correlation between being the best talker and having the best ideas.”

“We’re all scared most of the time. Life would be lifeless if we weren’t. Be scared, and then jump into that fear. Again and again. Just remember to hold on to yourself while you do it.”

“…She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.”

“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”

“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that’s always been there, and the next minute it’s just a memory.”

“Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.”

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.”

“I love making, I love doing. I love being to the full, I love everything which is not sitting and watching and copying and dead at heart.”

“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”

“Other people teach us who we are. Their attitudes to us are the mirror in which we learn to see ourselves, but the mirror is distorted. We are, perhaps, rather dimly aware of the immense power of our social environment.”

“It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any sense.”

“A fleeting moment A once in a lifetime chance Today is the day”