John Godfrey Saxe Quote

By choosing comfort we are in the very same decision choosing to miss every great thing in life, and that thought should be anything but comforting.

To seek the praise of men as our motivation is to abandon truly great things, for more often than not truly great things elicit the ire of men far more than they garner their praises.

You can never be annoyed by anyone when you are just alone, insults comes from being too familiar even with the most respectful persons.

Its crazy when people of high moral standards, feel its okay for an intimate friend to insult them in a jovial way, forgeting that even casual friends can do just the same in a jovial way.

A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about t...

When I work, I'm just translating the world around me in what seems to be straightforward terms. For my readers, this is sometimes a vision that's not familiar. But I'm not trying to manipulate realit...

Familiarity increases carnality.

Faced with delicate issue, consider kindness and deference. It's neither familiarity, indifference nor ire, but a perceived warmth to another soul