Julian Barnes Quote

Dream while others are sleeping. Dare while others are wishing. Do while others are talking. Deliver while others are quitting.

How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names.

Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

To begin to know ourselves we must have sincere conversations with ourselves as if with a good friend. We must answer without reserve, listen without judgement, and accept without condition. That is s...

Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.

A good character is not only about the good person people know you to be. Your ability to tell the truth about how bad you had been is also a good character.

My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...

The eagle only knows how high it can fly when it spreads its wings.

I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.