Mat Hoffman famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

If you want to experience all of the successes and pleasure in life, you have to be willing to accept all the pain and failure that comes with it.
-- Mat Hoffman

#Pain #Want #Pleasure
Bones heal, chicks dig scars, pain is temporary, glory is forever.
-- Mat Hoffman

#Pain #Forever #Scar
Some people pay a thousand dollars for a tattoo. This scar cost me twenty grand.
-- Mat Hoffman

#Tattoo #Cycling #People
It was an idealistic vision that generation had.
-- Mat Hoffman

#Vision #Generations #Idealistic
I had no interest in drinking in moderation. And I still don't. Just because all that time's passed doesn't mean maybe it was just a phase. That's you know, that's who I am.
-- Mat Hoffman

#Drinking #Mean #Who I Am

Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains. 'Tis the same with common natures: Use 'em kindly, they rebel; But be rough as nutmeg-graters, And the rogues obey you well.
I dropped my phone on the floor and let the pain assail me. I'd given my heart away to someone who didn't want it. Even knowing that, I didn't regret it. I just wanted him to want me. I just wanted him to love me too.
I love you,â€ I said, causing his face to contort in pain. â€œIâ€™m not a man so I do not have a heart that loves as a human does. Iâ€™m an immortal god that dwells with supreme power because I hold the keys to Death. But you are my existence. I am yours.â€ Hot tears streamed down my face as I stared into the face of someone who comprehended an emotion much stronger than my weak, feeble words of love.
To multitudes of sufferers on beds of pain and languishing, Jesus has been the great physician to-day; in many a weeping circle around precious dust, He has been the Divine comforter, and the tears have almost ceased to flow as this Jesus has touched the bier. Dying lips have whispered His name, and the valley of the shadow has been illumined as with the glory from the celestial shores.
Sometimes she wished for someone she could tell about her problems, just to be able to say, â€˜Iâ€™m in love with a man and I canâ€™t have him.â€™ But that would only lead to questions she couldnâ€™t answer, so she kept the secret and the pain inside, hoping someday she would no longer feel as if half of her were missing.
A mighty pain to love it is, And 'tis a pain that pain to miss; But, of all pains, the greatest pain Is to love, but love in vain.
There is a certain kind of pain that can change you. Even the strongest sword, when placed in a raging fire, will soften and bend and change its form... Trust me on this one. I know this from personal experience. I hope that you never will, but, since you're a person, and therefore prone to making horrible, soul-splitting mistakes, you probably will one day know what this kind of guilt and shame feels like. And when that time comes, I hope you have the strength...to take advantage of the fire and reshape your own sword.
We live in bodies that are fearfully and wonderfully made, yet they are not immune to illness and pain. We have hearts that are capable of experiencing great love, but sometimes they get broken.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
To have given pleasure to one human being is a recollection that sweetens life.

Mat Hoffman famous quotes

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