Over You Quotes - Page 12

• When you have the courage to tell the truth about what you're really afraid of, fear doesn't have control over your life.

  Ali Vincent

  Telling The Truth

  Ali VIncent (2010). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.144, Rodale

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• Let us not look east and west for materials of conversation, but rest in presence and unity. A just feeling will fast enough supply fuel for discourse, if speaking be more grateful than silence. When people come to see us, we foolishly prattle, lest we be inhospitable. But things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Grateful, Eggs, People

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “The Later Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1843-1871”, p.369, University of Georgia Press

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• Parents impose their own limited concepts on their children, often ignoring their temperaments, special needs, and abilities. Your parents and teachers may have mistakenly ignored your strengths or may not have encouraged you to develop them. You can discover your basic capacities by experimenting with things that you always wanted to do. Don't be discouraged by notions that seem "silly" or "foolish" or "not you." Do it! Who knows what will happen?

  Ari Kiev

  Teacher, Children, Silly

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• Most of the time, if you're not really paying attention, you're someplace else. So your child might say, "Daddy, I want this," and you might say, "Just a minute, I'm busy." Now that's no big deal-we all get busy, and kids frequently ask for attention. But over your child's entire youth, you may have an enormous number of such moments to be really, fully present, but because you thought you were busy, you didn't see the opportunities these moments presented. . . . People carry around an enormous amount of grief because they missed the little things.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Children, Grief, Kids

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• Take the time you need to learn the craft. Then sit down and write. When you hand over your completed manuscript to a trusted reader, keep an open mind. Edit, edit, and edit again. After you have written a great query letter, go to AgentQuery.com. This site is an invaluable resource that lists agents in your genre. Submit, accept rejection as part of the process, and submit again. And, of course, never give up.

  Kathleen Grissom

  Giving Up, Writing, Hands

  Kathleen Grissom (2014). “The Kitchen House: A Novel”, p.376, Simon and Schuster

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• What if someone hurts you with a weapon? Wait. Think it over. You probably feel angry. That's normal. But wasn't it the stick striking your body that hurt you? Can you be angry at the stick? Of course not. Should you be angry at the wielder of the stick? Wouldn't it make more sense to be angry at the hatred in the mind of the stick wielder? If you think about it, isn't the end of hatred in the world what you want most of all? Why, then, would you add to it by giving energy to your anger? After all, it will pass on its own if left alone, especially if you respond to it with compassion.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Hurt, Thinking, Compassion

  Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.96, Ballantine Books

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• Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Miracle, Fruit

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• All that you may achieve or discover you will regard as a fragment of a larger pattern of the truth which from the separate approaches every true scholar is striving to descry.

  Abbott Lawrence Lowell

  May, Patterns, Strive

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• As important as it is to keep picking yourself up and brushing yourself off, it's also important to stop tripping over your own two feet.

  Robert Breault

  Two, Feet, Important

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• When you look at the women that have made a real difference in the world throughout history, what they’ve done has almost always been defined by fearlessness. That’s something I came to at a certain point; I wish I’d come to it younger. Stop looking over your shoulder — there’s nobody who matters back there.

  Anna Quindlen

  Real, Differences, Looks

  "Anna Quindlen On Tooting Your Own Horn, Fearlessness And Raising Feminist Sons". Interview with Nina Bahadur, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2014.

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• I have a new method of poetry. All you got to do is look over your notebooks... or lay down on a couch, and think of anything that comes into your head, especially the miseries. Then arrange in lines of two, three or four words each, don't bother about sentences, in sections of two, three or four lines each.

  Allen Ginsberg

  Notebook, Thinking, Two

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• The Bible does not teach that sin is completely eradicated from the Christian in this life, but it does teach that sin shall no longer reign over you.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Doe, Reign

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Feb 08, 2014

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• All I needed was a friend to lend a guiding hand. But you turned into a lover, and mother what a lover, you wore me out.

  Rod Stewart

  Friendship, Mother, Hands

  Song: Maggie May

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• The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story.

  Jeannette Walls

  Writing, Perspective, Choices

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• As you stopped to say hello, oh, you wished me well, you couldn't tell that I'd been crying over you.

  Roy Orbison

  Sadness, Hello, Cry

  Song: Crying

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• Why won't you run in the rain and play, let the tears splash all over you?

  Dave Matthews

  Running, Rain, Sadness

  Song: #41

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• No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

  Evander Holyfield

  Too Much

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• Your Master Teacher knows all you need to learn, the perfect timing for your learning it, and the ideal way of teaching it to you. You don't create a Master Teacher -- that's already been done. You discover your Master Teacher.

  Peter McWilliams

  Inspirational, Teacher, Teaching

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Do It!: Let's Get Off Our Buts”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Nothing is ever simple. What do you do when you discover you like parts of the role you're trying to escape?

  Marilyn French

  Simple, Trying, Identity

  marilyn french (1977). “the womens room”

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• When you reach 95, after you get over your surprise, you start looking back.

  Kirk Douglas

  Surprise, Get Over, Looking Back

  "We Are Spartacus" by Kirk Douglas, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive.

  Larry Kramer

  Writing, Views, Seductive

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• Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Fate, Play

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Mar 11, 2012

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• I remember my uncle and my father telling me that my mother didn't want me because I was blind. She thought being blind was a disgrace and a punishment from God. I understand that a lot of young mothers probably wouldn't know what to do in that situation, but over your life you learn to forgive everything.

  Ronnie Milsap

  Mother, Uncles, Father

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• Please ignore rumors! I've had them for years and you have to just let them go over your head. Don't take them personally.

  Emma Bunton

  Years, Rumor, Please

  "Spice girls' emma bunton". www.seventeen.com. November 23, 2007.

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• Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

  Cheryl James

  Attitude, Records, Goes On

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