Be You Quotes (page 134)

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• alligators
• mighty
• swamps

You can be a mighty sailor, wrestling with an alligator. Romping through the swamp. Dave Van Ronk

• time
• feeling
• animal

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Michael Crichton

• fall
• optimistic
• moments

You’re optimistic one moment, only to be racked the next by the certainty that it will all fall to pieces. And in the end it does. Haruki Murakami

• great
• work
• goals

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, "arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached. Swami Vivekananda

• meant
• alive
• defines

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells Haruki Murakami

• lifetime
• personality
• santa

Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind. Terry McMillan

• believe
• miracle
• believed

You can be nothing or everything is a miracle. I believe everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein

• look
• cowardly
• likeness

Being afraid you'll look like a coward is the worst reason for doing anything. John Irving

• water
• horse
• waters

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead Stan Laurel

• brother
• god
• play

You choose to play God, and the Deity points out that the post is already adequately filled. During an outburst of besotted philanthropy he had redeemed Lymond, but Lymond quite simply was not prepared to be rescued; and least of all by his brother. Dorothy Dunnett

• friend
• friends
• good

You’ll never regret being a good friend. Emily Giffin

• forever
• imagination
• memories

You know, they straightened out the Mississippi River in places, to make room for hourse and livable acreage. Occasionally the river floods these places. "Floods" is the word they use, but in fact it is not flooding; it is remembering. Remembering where it used to be. All water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was. Writers are like that: remembering where we were, that valley we ran through, what the banks were like, the light that was there and the... Toni Morrison

• happy
• wise
• stupid

You can be wise and happy, or stupid and miserable. Gordon B. Hinckley

• people
• interest
• interested

You can be denounced from the heavens, and it only makes people interested. Tom Wolfe

• kindness
• fighting
• be kind

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle. Plato