Chase > Chase's Quotes

“You are brilliant. Tell your mind to be kind to you today.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“I want you to say everything, anything. I want to have your thoughts, I want to bottle them, I want to put them in my drawer for safekeeping.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“he doesn't want to be the person she hides from, he wants to be the person she hides with.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“Deities themselves had changed over time, but the act of devotion had not.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“So this is what it is to love something you cannot control, he thought. It felt precisely like terror.”
― Olivie Blake, Alone With You in the Ether

“A man who doesn't trust cannot be trusted”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“He’s a drunk. One of those guys who dies at twenty and is buried at eighty.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“You’ve got to be strong to get old.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“a solitary middle-aged man in the August of life looking for a few more Aprils, an”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“Son, a blessing favors them that needs it. Don’t matter how it comes. It just matters that it does.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“The Star-Spangled Banner,’” she scoffed. “I never did like that old lying, lollygagging, hypocritical, warring-ass drinking song. With the bombs bursting in air and so forth.”
― James McBride, Deacon King Kong

“For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“..some things were better, some were worse, and the only way one can ever learn to understand one's own youth is by accepting both halves of the proposition.”
― Nick Hornby, Fever Pitch

“The truth is that most of life will unfold in accordance with forces far outside your control, regardless of what your mind says about it”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“there is no reason to constantly attempt to figure everything out”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“True personal growth is about transcending the part of you that is not okay and needs protection.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“Your inner growth is completely dependent upon the realization that the only way to find peace and contentment is to stop thinking about yourself.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“You're floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“The key is to be quiet. It’s not that
your mind has to be quiet. You be quiet.
You, the one inside watching the
neurotic mind, just relax.”
― Michael A. Singer, The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“True justice is paying only once for each mistake. True injustice is paying more than once for each mistake.”
― don Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe
they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“We judge others according to our image of
perfection as well, and naturally they fall short of our expectations.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“Imagine living your life without judging others. You can easily forgive others and let go of any judgments that you have. You don’t have the need to be right, and you don’t need to make anyone else wrong. You respect yourself and everyone else, and they respect you in return.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“If someone is not treating you with love and respect, it is a gift if they walk away from you.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“The problem with making assumptions is that we believe they are the truth. We could swear they are real.”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“I have always believed, and I still believe, that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.”
― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha