Mason Cooley famous quotes

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.
-- Mason Cooley

#Autumn #Clothes #Costumes

Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
-- Mason Cooley

#Forgiveness

Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
-- Mason Cooley

#Faith #Moving #Hiking

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.
-- Mason Cooley

#Depression #Courage #Bipolar

Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
-- Mason Cooley

#Happiness #Attitude #Book

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.
-- Mason Cooley

#Mistake #Literature #Originality

Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
-- Mason Cooley

#Love Is #Romance #Calm

A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.
-- Mason Cooley

#Positive #Heart #Blessing

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time
-- Mason Cooley

#Time #Regret #Wasting Time

True self is the part of us that does not change when circumstances do.
-- Mason Cooley

#Self #Doe #Circumstances

Children pay little attention to their parents' teachings, but reproduce their characters faithfully
-- Mason Cooley

#Children #Teaching #Character

Art begins in imitation and ends in innovation.
-- Mason Cooley

#Art #Innovation #Imitation

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.
-- Mason Cooley

#History #Effort #Psychology

Even cats grow lonely and anxious.
-- Mason Cooley

#Lonely #Cat #Pet

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.
-- Mason Cooley

#Soul #Comfort #Doctrine

As equality increases, so does the number of people struggling for predominance.
-- Mason Cooley

#Struggle #Equality #Numbers

To appear well dressed, be skinny and tall.
-- Mason Cooley

#Style #Skinny #Well Dressed

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.
-- Mason Cooley

#Mean #Literature

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas.
-- Mason Cooley

#Ideas #Office #Suffering

After my spectacular failures, I could not be satisfied with an ordinary success.
-- Mason Cooley

#Success #Congratulations #Ordinary

Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
-- Mason Cooley

#Journalism

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
-- Mason Cooley

#Writing #Solitude #Reader

Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.
-- Mason Cooley

#Life #Broken #Keep Moving

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
-- Mason Cooley

#Inspirational #Wisdom #Achievement

When I prayed for success, I forgot to ask for sound sleep and good digestion.
-- Mason Cooley

#Success #Sleep #Digestion

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.
-- Mason Cooley

#Art #Sex #Taken

Cats are inquisitive, but hate to admit it.
-- Mason Cooley

#Hate #Cat #Pet

Few artists can afford artistic temperament.
-- Mason Cooley

#Artist #Literature #Temperament

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit.
-- Mason Cooley

#Literature #Sofas #Ideology

To understand someone, find out how he spends his money.
-- Mason Cooley

#Money

No chaos, no creation. Evidence: the kitchen at mealtime.
-- Mason Cooley

#Kitchen #Literature #Chaos

Three meals plus bedtime make four sure blessings a day.
-- Mason Cooley

#Blessing #Three #Literature

Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
-- Mason Cooley

#Creativity #Writing #Acting

Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
-- Mason Cooley

#Love #Lust

Good parties create a temporary youthfulness.
-- Mason Cooley

#New Year #Party #Literature

The time I kill is killing me.
-- Mason Cooley

#Time #Time Management #Killing

Astrology: do we make a hullabaloo among the stars, or do they make a hullabaloo down here?
-- Mason Cooley

#Stars #Astrology

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.
-- Mason Cooley

#Lying #Deceit #Consciousness

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.
-- Mason Cooley

#Blame #Living Alone #Harder

After rejection - misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.
-- Mason Cooley

#Revenge #Rejection #Trying

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
-- Mason Cooley

#Inspirational #Compassion #Literature

A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.
-- Mason Cooley

#Cat #People #Pet

Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.
-- Mason Cooley

#Inspirational #Procrastination #Literature

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.
-- Mason Cooley

#Trying #Causes #Trembling

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.
-- Mason Cooley

#Reading #Writing #Thinking

Mistrust makes life difficult. Trust makes it risky.
-- Mason Cooley

#Im Sorry #Sorry #Mistrust

Lust and greed are more gullible than innocence.
-- Mason Cooley

#Greed #Lust #Literature

Cure for an obsession: get another one.
-- Mason Cooley

#Life #Obsession #Cures