Vikram Kumar > Vikram's Quotes

“I couldn’t be sure if I had moved forward or fallen behind, or if I was just circling over the same spot.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“It seems as if, year after year, the world becomes a more difficult place to live.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“No matter how vivid a memory, the power of time was stronger. I knew this instinctively.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Yet what was time, when you got right down to it? We measured its passage with the hands of a clock for convenience’s sake. But was that appropriate? Did time really flow in such a steady and linear way? Couldn’t this be a mistaken way of thinking, an error of major proportions?”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“You’re still young, so that’s why you say that. When you get to be my age, you’ll understand how I feel. How much loneliness the truth can cause sometimes.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Memory can give warmth to time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“I had to put my faith in time.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Only by taking his own life was my uncle able to recover his humanity.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“No need to worry. Time is the remedy for your concerns. It is the key for all things that possess form. True, time does not last forever, but as long as you have it, it is remarkably efficacious. So look forward to the future, my friends.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“There are probably things people are better off not hearing … But they can’t go forever without hearing them. When the time comes, even if they stop their ears up tight, the air will vibrate and invade a person’s heart. You can’t prevent it. If you don’t like it, then the only solution is to live in a vacuum.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“Nature grants its beauty to us all, drawing no line between rich and poor.”
― Haruki Murakami, Killing Commendatore

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
― Joyce Meyer, I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
― Joyce Meyer

“When you are tempted to give up, your breakthrough is probably just around the corner.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.”
― Joyce Meyer

“One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life.”
― Joyce Meyer, Any Minute

“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It's like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can't stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived...Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation... Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist's true friend. What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children was that we need to make messes in order to find out who we are and why we are here.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“The problem is acceptance, which is something we're taught not to do. We're taught to improve uncomfortable situations, to change things, alleviate unpleasant feelings. But if you accept the reality that you have been given- that you are not in a productive creative period- you free yourself to begin filling up again.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Perfectionism means that you try desperately not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived. Clutter is wonderfully fertile ground - you can still discover new treasures under all those piles, clean things up, edit things out, fix things, get a grip. Tidiness suggests that something is as good as it's going to get. Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“Lighthouses don’t go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.”
― Anne Lamott