Brian MacLearn > Brian's Quotes

“The moment after being let go, when we can finally let it go, is the moment when love once again has hope.”
― Brian MacLearn

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
― Elbert Hubbard

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.”
― Thomas Edison

“The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
― Abigail Van Buren

“The greatest testament of a life lived is to be missed when you are gone. It is not something you can plan for or buy ahead of time. It is a sentiment that comes freely from the lives you touch in positive ways.”
― Brian MacLearn

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“Love isn't something to be given on whim, or shelved when it isn't convenient. Love is gift, a promise, and a belief in another person. If you treat it as such, it will fulfill you always”
― Brian MacLearn

“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.”
― May Sarton

“Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong'.
Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.”
― Charlie Schultz

“I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.”
― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes

“You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?”
― Brian MacLearn

“There are many types of pain. The only one that aspirin won't help is a hurting heart. That's why there is alcohol.”
― Brian MacLearn

“If love is like driving a car, then I must be the worst driver in the world. I missed all the signs and ended up lost.”
― Brian MacLearn

“Love has to be a two-way street; otherwise, you'll never meet in the middle.”
― Brian MacLearn

“I'm past competing in pissing contests. My jet stream is now more of a trickle. The only contest I'd win is the number of trips to the bathroom it takes to purge a 32oz soda.”
― Brian MacLearn

“Faith is a very powerful state of consciousness. It alone is the one driving motivation behind completion. It’s a truth in all endeavors, and yet it is never right or wrong, that is a human concept.”
― Brian L MacLearn