James Sharp > James Sharp's Quotes

“Don't be a damned ammunition wagon. Be a rifle!”
― Carl Rogers

“And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If you have a dog, you will most likely outlive it; to get a dog is to open yourself to profound joy and, prospectively, to equally profound sadness.”
― Marjorie Garber

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov

“Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,
Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,
That to the use of actions fair and good
He likewise gives a frock or livery
That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight,
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence; the next more easy;
For use almost can change the stamp of nature.”
― William Shakespeare, Hamlet

“The easiest way to do art is to dispense with success and failure altogether and just get on with it,”
― Kenny Werner, Effortless Mastery

“brother
when did you forget
that the walls of
a woman's body
were once a fortress
protecting you from
a world you were
too fragile for?
she has been
defending you
long before you decided
that she has no place
defending you.”
― Jasmin Kaur, When You Ask Me Where I'm Going: Young Adult Prose Poetry on Trauma, Feminism, and Empowerment