V. Pain > V.'s Quotes

“Fish for a man, he'll eat for a day, don't teach him to de-bone that fish, You may not have to worry about him tomorrow!”
― V. Pain

“There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.”
― John Lennon

“Never let kindness be your weakness, never let your weaknesses be your downfal”
― V. Pain, Hear Me Roar

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.”
― Winston S. Churchill

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

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

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Lightning strikes the earth and thunder heralds the doom but the earth bears it all in silence, teaching us that life may be harsh to us but we shouldn't be so to life.”
― Tista Ray

“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it.”
― Jordan Belfort

“Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer.”
― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding

“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“Creativity is your umbilical cord to happiness”
― Sandra Proto

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”
― Amy Tan, The Bonesetter's Daughter

“If I cared what people thought I probably wouldn't be a fantasy author.”
― Nicholas Taylor

“A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel

“What I have dreamed in an hour is worth more than what you have done in four.”
― Lorenzo de' Medici