Lawrence Taylor > Lawrence's Quotes

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass...It's about learning to dance in the rain.”
― Vivian Greene

“There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will. ”
― Epictetus

“It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
― Epictetus

“People are not disturbed by things, but by the views they take of them.”
― Epictetus, Enchiridion

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
― Roy Bennett

“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.”
― Denis Waitley

“The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.”
― Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Two separate beings, in different circumstances, face to face in freedom and seeking justification of their existence through one another, will always live an adventure full of risk and promise." (p. 248)”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“It is Toussaint's supreme merit that while he saw European civilisation as a valuable and necessary thing, and strove to lay its foundations among his people, he never had the illusion that it conferred any moral superiority. He knew French, British, and Spanish imperialists for the insatiable gangsters that they were, that there is no oath too sacred for them to break, no crime, deception, treachery, cruelty, destruction of human life and property which they would not commit against those who could not defend themselves.”
― C.L.R. James, The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution

“newcomer springs to mind. I decided my elegant style had something to do with it. I, a black teenager, wore a black suit with a white tie, baggy trousers, and my landlord’s grey winter coat.”
― Lawrence G. Taylor, Making Sense of Past Time

“I noticed some people of both sexes watching me along the way. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder what is going on in the minds of strangers staring at me. Another newcomer springs to mind. I decided my elegant style had something to do with it. I, a black teenager, wore a black suit with a white tie, baggy trousers, and my landlord’s grey winter coat.”
― Lawrence G. Taylor, Making Sense of Past Time

“Occasionally, there was talk of racial prejudice in the workplace or elsewhere. The men had spoken of their experiences with humour and without bitterness. There I stood silently in their midst, listening to their stories, and believing that my time would come to tell such stories.”
― Lawrence G. Taylor, Making Sense of Past Time

“The day I lost my job, self-degradation kicked in. I bought two bottles of red wine from the Off-License and went straight to my lodgings. Within an hour, I consumed a bottle of wine and made such a racket: laughing at my cynical jokes to others and singing like Nate King Cole. The homeowner wasn’t home, but some tenants became upset.”
― Lawrence G. Taylor, Making Sense of Past Time