Marcio de Oliveira > Marcio's Quotes

“We think we make bucket lists to ward off regret, but really they help us to ward off death. After all, the longer our bucket lists are, the more time we imagine we have left to accomplish everything on them. Cutting the list down, however, makes a tiny dent in our denial systems, forcing us to acknowledge a sobering truth: Life has a 100 percent mortality rate. Every single one of us will die, and most of us have no idea how or when that will happen. In fact, as each second passes, we’re all in the process of coming closer to our eventual deaths. As the saying goes, none of us will get out of here alive.”
― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed

“Needed: some tenors! Our group is short two tenors for our turn caroling in the square! All are welcome. Please message me if you can sing! ~Randolph Clark posted to the What’s up Neighbor app”
― Annabeth Albert, The Geek Who Saved Christmas

“I’ve got so much inside me I have no idea about. I’m like the mayor of a city I’ve never seen.”
― Sally Thorne

“Imagine all the people you meet in your life. There are so many. They come in like waves, trickling in and out with the tide. Some waves are much bigger and make more of an impact than others. Sometimes the waves bring with them things from deep in the bottom of the sea and they leave those things tossed onto the shore. Imprints against the grains of sand that prove the waves had once been there, long after the tide recedes.”
― Colleen Hoover, It Ends with Us

“If you stay ready, you don’t have to get ready.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“I am in your midst, without apology. I’m here to stay. I’m here as I am. And if you have a problem with that—fuck you!”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“If I can’t see it in the rehearsal room, what makes you think I’ma trust you to deliver on the stage!”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Don’t wait for anyone to give you permission to practice your art. You must always be practicing, even when no one’s listening—and most of the time, no one’s listening.” George C. Wolfe”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Fifteen minutes early is on time, on time is late, and late is unacceptable.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“There’s a lesson in every triumph, but more importantly, in every disappointment. Find the lesson.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Do you want to be a star, or do you want to be an artist? Being a star for fame’s sake is ego-driven. Being an artist requires stripping away ego and grounding oneself in service.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“You are the only one who’s going to be able to hold yourself to a higher standard, because no one around you will know the difference.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“Our job as artists and storytellers is to teach and, when necessary, preach the gospel of true humanity in all its forms. Toni Morrison once said, “This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”
― Billy Porter, Unprotected: A Memoir

“The thing about your dreams coming true is that, for a gold-spun moment, you catch a glimpse of what life could be like. Then when you lose it, and you crash back to reality, it’s from such a great height, all you can do is lie there, winded and bruised, while you come to terms with the idea that a happiness like that isn’t meant for you.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“At the crux of it, everyone wants the world to see them as they are. The truth isn’t the problem. The problem is that the world doesn’t always make the truth safe for us to share.”
― Sophie Gonzales, If This Gets Out

“People say parenting is the hardest job in the world — they’re wrong — growing up is. We all just forget how hard it was.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - Parts One and Two: The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

“Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show them your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe.”
― John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

“He who has a why to live for can bear almost any how.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing you don't already know: Remarkable reminders about meaning, purpose, and self-realization

“Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive, and will come forth later, in uglier ways. —SIGMUND FREUD”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“The aim of therapy is not to correct the past, but to enable the patient to confront his own history, and to grieve over it. —ALICE MILLER”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“Is there anything better than iced coffee and a bookstore on a sunny day? I mean, aside from hot coffee and a bookstore on a rainy day.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“It’s never taken effort—that’s what made me fall in love with reading: the instant floating sensation, the dissolution of real-world problems, every worry suddenly safely on the other side of some metaphysical surface.”
― Emily Henry, Book Lovers

“Every human being—each of us—is like a country. You can build walls around yourself to protect yourself, to keep others out, never letting anybody visit you, never letting anybody in, never letting anybody see the beauty of the treasures you carry within. Building walls can lead to a sad and lonely existence. But we can also decide to give people visas and let them in so they can see for themselves all the wealth you have to offer. You can decide to let those who visit you see your pain and the courage it has taken you to survive. Letting other people in—letting them see your country—this is the key to happiness.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“If we’re lucky. If we’re very lucky, the universe will send us the people we need to survive.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World

“When words are real enough, when they’re the exact right words, when what you’re saying matters, when it’s beautiful and perfect and true—it hurts.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, The Brothers Hawthorne

“I think LEGO is my love language.”
― M.A. Wardell, Napkins and Other Distractions