Quotes (Part Two)

• Want to lose weight? Don't eat anything 4 hours before you go to bed. It makes a huge difference.
• You might gather the same materials and make identical preparations, but you would never be able to duplicate the result.
• Do what you feel in your heart to be right, for you'll be criticized anyway.
• You are not what has happened to you. You are what you choose to become.
• Do what is right, not what is easy.
• We're all the same. Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing.
• Grab whatever chance of happiness you have. Don't worry about other people too much.
• Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.
• Taking everything into consideration, my instincts still tell me to go for it. Simply because that you don't get chances like this very often.
• I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute.
• I guess time doesn't flow in order, does it? - A,B, C, D? It just sort of goes where it feels like going.
• So often, below the word spoken, is the thing known and unspoken.
• Material development only gives us sensory pleasure, but to be lastingly happy we need to develop our minds. We need calm minds.
• Never apologize for burning too brightly or collapsing into yourself every night. That is how galaxies are made.
• When I didn't understand something, I gathered up the words scattered at my feet, and lined them up into sentences. Anyway, be happy. I get the feeling a lot of shit is going to come your way, but you're a stubborn bastard, I'm sure you'll handle it.
• Whatever you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.
• The years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It's then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult - but you are not ready.
• Stories come to me and I grasp it and write it down. That is all. It is just like catching exotic birds or butterflies in the deep woods. If I lose sight of them once, they would be gone in an instant, and probably for good.
• Have you every had that feeling that you'd like to go to a whole different place and become a whole different self?
• There burns throughout the line of words, the cultivated act, a fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, illusion.