#Writing Quotes #Joy Quotes #Rejection Quotes
“I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.”
“I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.”
“When I'm in the water I feel as though nothing bad has happened. I think about the fish, how they don't know what's going on. Their world is unchanged. Actually it's probably better now to be a tuna or a sardine or a salmon. Less chance of ending up as somebody's lunch.”
“I tend to work in the mornings, then take a few hours off in the afternoon to walk the dog, and then come back and work in the evening. So, if I can remember my pre-dog walking music when I get back then that's fine, I'll kind of commit to those bits, but if I can't remember them I'll just move on to something else.”
“Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.”
“Most parents have college funds and things. I don't. I call myself the "hood daddy." I got their money in cash, stashed up. I don't have plans for my kids. I just want them to be happy.”
“The justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men, and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations.”
Source : Attributed to Glenn Gould in "Glenn Gould: Music and Mind" by Geoffrey Payzant, (p. 64), 1978.
“Forgiveness means that I continually am willing to forgive the other person for not being God — for not fulfilling all my needs. I, too, must ask forgiveness for not being able to fulfill other people's needs. … The interesting thing is that when you can forgive people for not being God, then you can celebrate that they are a reflection of God.”
Bill O'Brien Coach
