Just Quotes (page 538)

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• welcome
• good
• memorial

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones. Marcus Aurelius

• death
• new
• controllers

It's only in drugs or death we'll see anything new, and death is just too controlling. Chuck Palahniuk

• mind
• people
• mindfulness

If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind. Alice Walker

• book
• you me
• saying

What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. Margaret Drabble

• sometimes
• sink
• sinking

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink. Charles Bukowski

• writing
• wishes
• being

one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood. Friedrich Nietzsche

• die
• dating
• music

The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world... Warren Ellis

• different
• hard
• kindness

Everyone who tells a story tells it differently, just to remind us that everybody sees it differently. Some people say there are true things to be found, some people say all kinds of things can be proved. I don't believe them. The only thing for certain is how complicated it all is, like string full of knots. It's all there but hard to find the beginning and impossible to fathom the end. The best you can do is admire the cat's cradle, and maybe knot it up a bit more. Jeanette Winterson

• deep
• art
• hope

You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Jodi Picoult

• friends
• friend
• alone

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment. Haruki Murakami

• unhappy
• morning
• choose

When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy Norman Vincent Peale

• god
• sometimes
• shutter

Sometimes I arrive just when God's ready to have somone click the shutter. Ansel Adams

• slay
• look
• moonlight

She looked so beautiful in the moonlight, but it wasn't only the way she looked, it was what was inside her, everything from her intelligence and courage to her wit, and the special smile she gave only to him. He would slay a dragon, if there were such a thing, just to see that smile. He knew he would never want anyone else for as long as he lived. He would rather spend the rest of his life alone than with someone else. There could be no one else. Terry Goodkind

• you me
• thankful
• thankful you

So to you, or anyone else who has spent four minutes on me in some way-- listening to just one song, or watching one of my videos….Thank you. I love you like I love sparkles and having the last word. And that's real love. Taylor Swift

• kiss
• smile
• manly

The real lover is the man who can thrill you by kissing your forehead or smiling into your eyes or just staring into space. Marilyn Monroe