D.G. Kaye > D.G.'s Quotes

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“If you obey all of the rules, you miss all of the fun.”
― Katharine Hepburn

“The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease.”
― J. Thorn, The Seventh Seal

“You know what love means? It means loving the person you are now and not the person you want someone to be or the person they will be.”
― Samantha Stroh Bailey

“don't put all your eggs in one bastard”
― Meredith Schorr, Just Friends With Benefits

“Live Laugh Love...And don't forget to breathe!”
― D.G. Kaye

“I won’t have you calling me Miss Tuttle. That’s what the doc calls me. And the lady at the bank. One takes my temperature and the other my money. Friends don’t take anything—they give.”
― Diane Lynn McGyver, Miss Tuttle's Lemon Tarts

“(A)ll it takes is one generation to brainwash a population and convince them that reality doesn't exist.”
― Marie Lu, Prodigy

“The things you think are the disasters in your life are not the disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it.”
― Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies

“Somehow I believed it was my obligation to try to do the right thing by her because she had given birth to me.”
― D.G. Kaye, Conflicted Hearts

“Lights Out: Sleep, Sugar, and Survival,”
― Ari Whitten, Forever Fat Loss: Escape the Low Calorie and Low Carb Diet Traps and Achieve Effortless and Permanent Fat Loss by Working with Your Biology Instead of Against It

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
― Steven Kloves

“Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Hark, now hear the sailors cry,
Smell the sea, and feel the sky,
Let your soul & spirit fly, into the mystic.

- Into the Mystic”
― Van Morrison, Lit Up Inside: Selected Lyrics

“You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... Until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
― Rumi

“Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.”
― Haruki Marukami

“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
― Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“And if my heart be scarred and burned,
The safer, I, for all I learned.”
― Dorothy Parker, Sunset Gun: Poems

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.”
― Aldous Huxley, Texts and Pretexts: An Anthology With Commentaries

“Ideals and opportunities and social theorizing are just fine, but if you must understand only one thing, it is this: a warm hand and words whispered into the ear are what we want. Paths that can be seen and followed and walked upon are what we most need.
...And in the end, the thing that feeds us, no matter how tenuous, is what we will reach for.”
― Sonja Livingston

“Crazy isn't being broken or swallowing a dark secret. It's you or me amplified. If you ever told a lie and enjoyed it. If you ever wished you could be a child forever.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”
― Leo Buscaglia

“One sure window into a person's soul is his reading list”
― Mary Tabor

“Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.”
― Leo Buscaglia