Don Trowden > Don's Quotes

“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
― Marcel Proust

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We’ve learned to cope in ways you never had to.”
― Piers Anthony

“The past is the anchor that weighs us down.”
― Don Trowden

“He preferred to burn his bridges before he got on them.”
― Don Trowden

“Feeling downtrodden? Read Don Trowden.”
― Don Trowden

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