Quotes about everything

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“Hitting bottom isn't a weekend retreat, it's not a goddamn seminar. Stop trying to control everything and just let go. Let go”

“A person who thought he knew everything simply didn’t understand how much there was to know.”

“Because everything worth having hurts.”

“I'm an old, superstitious Arab, and I believe in our proverbs. There's one that says, 'Everything that happens once can never happen again. But anything that happens twice will surely happen a third time.”

“Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.”

“Why is it that everything I eat when I’m with you is so delicious?’ I laughed. ‘Could it be that you’re satisfying hunger and lust at the same time?”

“Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.”

“A single white roes goes with everything, doesn´t it, and it symbolizes purity.”

“Jamie : "I didn't want anybody to be weird around me.". Landon : "Including me?". Jamie : "Especially you! You know, I was getting along with everything fine. I accepted it, and then you happened!".”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deerit.

“Everything happens for a reason, and part of that beauty of life is that we're not allowed to know those reasons for certain.”

“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then there are those remarkably rare, addictive ones who just bring out the most. Of everything.”

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

“I'm so burned out, the only person I can stand is myself.
I'm the only one I would put through this.
Wheels and wings,
The ride is everything.
I'm all I've got.
I'm all I can take.
Another day has destroyed a part of me.
So far so good.”

“Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.”

“Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects… the quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.”

“There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking.”

“People who cling to their illusions find it difficult, if not impossible, to learn anything worth learning: a people under the necessity of creating themselves must examine everything, and soak up learning the way the roots of a tree soak up water.”

“Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.”

“When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.”

“Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimize the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.”

“I used to believe. I used to think that if I wanted it bad enough, wished hard enough, everything would work out the way It was supposed to. Destiny, like Susannah said.”

“So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.”

“…the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…”

“Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.”

“Love can conquer everything but reality.”

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”

“You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.”

“Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.”

“Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”

“The closer you live to God, the smaller everything else appears.”

“I bet," said Mulch, "that you would set the world on fire just to watch it burn."
Opal tapped the suggestion into a small electronic notepad on her pocket computer.
Thanks for that. Now, tell me everything.”

“When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.”

“If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”

“On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts.”

“The certainty that everything has already been written annuls us, or renders us phantasmal.”

“Philosophers are people who know less and less about more and more, until they know nothing about everything. Scientists are people who know more and more about less and less, until they know everything about nothing.”

“The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen.”

“Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.”

“William untucked the covers and stood, making a mental list of everything he'd need for the coming trip. A few blades, serrated and non serrated. A vial of acid. A bone saw. A spiked paddle. A cat-o'-nine-tails. And a bag of Gummy Bears.”

“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”

“It might do wonders for your marriage,” Amelia continued. “It’s lovely to talk to your husband after you’ve been to bed together. They just lie there feeling grateful and say yes to everything.” - Amelia to Poppy”

“It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.”

“The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.”

“I don'tto blow up everything I see… I just like to.”

“Its only after you've lost everything," Tyler says, "that you're free to do anything.”

“There is an empty space next to you in the backseat of the station wagon. Make it the shape of everything you need. Now say hello.”

“Not everything Jace did was insane and suicidal, she reminded herself. It just seemed that way.
-Clary, pg.46”

“It was strange how your world could shift on its axis and everything you trusted could invert itself in what seemed like no time at all.”

“Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.”

“I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.”

“Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.”

“Downtown. Lights on buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And in that moment, I swear we were infinite.”

“He came like the wind, like the wind touched everything, and like the wind was gone.

-from The Dragon Reborn. By Loial, son of Arent son of Halan, the Fourth Age.”

“Everything else you see and experience in this world is effect, and that includes your feelings. The cause is always your thoughts.”

“One loses everything when one loses one's sense of humor.”

“I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the same hand, and we have the same soul.”

“I wish I’d done everything on Earth with you.”

“If the Angels won, the entire Earth would be nothing but one giant Christmas frickin' morning, a choking wave of happiness and warmth and caring and sharing taking over everything.”

“Everything may be labelled- but everybody is not.”

“But just the fact that he was sparkling leads me to doubt everything that happened.”

“Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.”

“I believe everything out of the common. The only thing to distrust is the normal.”

“Everything's plastic, we're all going to die sooner or later, so what does it matter.”

“How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.”

“Everything is evil that humans can't control or conquer”

“Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything's connetcted to everything else.”

“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it is: infinite.”

“You have everything," she said slowly, as if she were explaining the order of the world to a small child. "A family, a great job, a lot of people who look up to you. You've got a place to go home to." She smiled a little. "So go.”

“Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found it to be.”

“It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”

“What do you do when you finally hear everything you've always thought said aloud?”

“Love. It was the beginning and end of everything, the foundation and the ceiling and the air in between.”

“I find relief from the questions only when I concede that I am not obliged to know everything. I remind myself it is sufficient to know what I know, and that what I know, may not always be true.”

“Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie, conversely it cannot be used to tell the truth: it cannot in fact be used "to tell" at all.”

“How can He be perfect? Everything He ever makes… dies.”

“Everything is fine and bright. Day must follow every night. My power keeps me safe from harm. The Goddess holds me in her arms.”

“There are four things that make a man fight as you just did," the duke explained to Rumbold. "Love, despair, anger, or insanity."

Erik counted them off on his fingers. "Everything to lose, nothing to lose, someone's taken it, or you've lost it.”

“Everything I did, I did because I thought it was the correct thing to do… I am not a hero, it is true… But I am not a bad person, either.”

“It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.”

“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.”

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”

“Love did not overcome everything. Love did not always endure. All you had could be taken away, love could be the last thing you had, and then love could be taken too.”

“You can do anything, but not everything.”

“Anxiety, the next gumption trap, is sort of the opposite of ego. You're so sure you'll do everything wrong you're afraid to do anything at all. Often this, rather than "laziness," is the real reason you find it hard to get started. This gumption trap of anxiety, which results from over-motivation, can lead to all kinds of errors of excessive fussiness. You fix things that don't need fixing, and chase after imaginary ailments. You jump to wild conclusions and build all kinds of errors into the machine because of your own nervousness. These errors, when made, tend to confirm your original underestimation of yourself. This leads to more errors, which lead to more underestimation, in a self-stoking cycle. The best way to break this cycle, I think, is to work out your anxieties on paper. Read every book and magazine you can on the subject. Your anxiety makes this easy and the more you read the more you calm down.”

“Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.”

“She hates everything that is not what she longs for.”

“Everyone had a reason for everything they did, even if that reason was sometimes stupidity.”

“I wish I could just project everything on the paper”

“Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.”

“… the devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for…”

“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.”

“The unpredictable and the predetermined unfold together to make everything the way it is.”

“I am so busy doing nothing… that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to something - cuts into the nothing and then forces me to have to drop everything.”

“Everything has to come to an end, sometime.”

“He had the feeling that everything he saw was a broken-off piece of some giant blank thing that he had forgotten had happened to him.”

“I can't pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me.”

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”