#ok

Making excuses is one of a host of self-defeating behaviours and mental patterns that can block your success. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

A book is sent out into the world, and there is no way of fully anticipating the responses it will elicit. Consider the responses called forth by the Bible, Homer, Shakespeare - let alone contemporary poetry or a modern novel. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#anticipating #bible #book #called #consider

I can make things, but I don't cook them, exactly. Like salmon, I can stick that in a pan. Or the other day I made noodles, but they were hard. It never occurred to me to check them; I just stopped cooking them when I felt they were ready. Really, I'm too absentminded. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#cook #cooking #day #exactly #felt

What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#author #being #book #classic #continuing

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. ↗

— Lawrence Clark Powell

#come #come and go #constant #defense #die

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else. ↗

— John Waters

#reading #life

When you act on your beliefs, the realisation that happens is caused by you and this will in turn lead to a consequence. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

You can't trample infidels when you're a tortoise. I mean, all you could do is give them a meaningful look. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#give #i #infidels #look #mean

The ideal death, I think, is what was the ideal Victorian death, you know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#around #been #behind #bit #certain

Success doesn't mean that you are healthy, success doesn't mean that you're happy, success doesn't mean that you're rested. Success really doesn't mean that you look good, or feel good, or are good. ↗

— Victoria Principal

#feel #feel good #good #happy #healthy