"The best thing about being dead is you no longer have to say 'I wish I were dead.' The best thing about being alive is that you can still say 'I wish I were dead'"

-- Ivor Cutler

#Wish Quotes #Alive Quotes #Stills Quotes

“My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.”
“What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old [I] would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.”
“All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.”
“You go to the hospital your wife's in labor and you're doing the thing, and then it's very disorienting and scary and you beat yourself up and you go through a whole period of 'woe is me' and then you realize that this a gift, this child is the light, and if you can nourish that light and just let it shine, you have an opportunity to get closer to what I think is God.”
“What I like about gluttony, a bishop I knew used to say, is that it doesnt hurt anyone else.”
“For most of us, the classic test of willpower is resisting temptation, whether the temptress is a doughnut, a cigarette, a clearance sale, or a one-night stand. When people say, "I have no willpower," what they usually mean is, "I have trouble saying no when my mouth, stomach, heart, or (fill in your anatomical part) wants to say yes.”

Source : Kelly McGonigal (2011). “The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It”, p.14, Penguin
“I built you a sandcastle because you're a princess, but I tore it down because I'm a loser.”
“He who wishes to paint Christ's story must live with Christ.”

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