Quotes by Australian Authors - Page 56

Fear doesn't gain respect. It just makes people do what you want to shut you up and get you away from them.
S.A. Tawks
Maybe I am just an old fool with foolish thoughts, but those foolish thoughts allow this old fool to sleep quite comfortably at night.
S.A. Tawks
What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly?
S.A. Tawks
Embrace what works and discard what doesn't.
S.A. Tawks
Don't be a martyr to your imagination.
Sheridan Hay
Memory is imagined; it is not real. Don't be ashamed of its need to create; it is the loveliest part of your heart. Myth is the true history. Don't let them tell you that there are no monsters. Don't let them make you feel stupid, just because you are happy to play down in the dark with your flashlight. The mystical world depends on you and your tolerance for the absurd. Be strong, my darling ones, and believe!
Nick Cave
In this kind of personal artwork, jettison any idea that you can help yourself or others by interpreting, praising, or criticizing. These kinds of creative pieces and experiences are only for being with. The only helpful response is to nourish the imagination and your piece by associating other images to it and noticing what feelings it evokes in you.
Jill Mellick
Sometimes careful just isn’t good enough.
A.B. Shepherd
But who is ever fair in an argument?
A.B. Shepherd
Drink from the fountain of youth and cloak yourself in the garments of wisdom.
Truth Devour
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.André Chevalier
Nikki Sex
Life's most obvious truths are the hardest to see but once you've burned everything to the ground they are the only things left standing.André Chevalier
Nikki Sex
Life is about choices and chances. You make a choice and take a chance.
Truth Devour
I love the passions. They create such sensation! Anger, grief, fear, love, hate, excitement. The fierce emotions make one feel. Such are a gift, so one knows one is alive. To live without passion is to have no life at all.
Nikki Sex
Live your life in the NOW. Right NOW, THIS minute, THIS second.
Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos
The two most powerful forces in the world,Love and Money !People will kill for both.
Lou Silluzio
You have a choice !Deal with life's problems !or life will deal with you.
Lou Silluzio
You're either on the Merry go round or you're not.
Lou Silluzio
If you're expecting an upside in everything you do you might get extremely disappointed unless you also think about the consequences of a downside first.
Lou Silluzio
The only guarantees in life are the guarantees you make to yourself.
Lou Silluzio
A fathers only wish is for his children to be infinitely better off than him
Lou Silluzio
My mother used to say about gossipers " Don't worry about people talking about you , whilst they're talking about you they are leaving some other poor innocent soul alone
Lou Silluzio
We don't blame your shadow for the shape of your body. Don't blame others for the shape of your experience.
Gillian Duce
She never indulged in self-pity, nor did she point the finger of blame for her misfortunes. Her heart was clear of bitterness. I believe that if a person’s strength of character is measured at the end of his or her life, it is by these qualities—qualities that allow a life to be lived, free of those restraints we place upon ourselves.
Gemma Liviero
If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you’ll have an existence, but not a life.
Deborah O'Brien
And the stars: the sky gets crowded at night, and it is a bit like watching a clock, seeing the constellations slide across the sky. It’s comforting to know that they’ll show up, however bad the day has been, however crook things get. That used to help in France. It put things into perspective—the stars had been around since before there were people. They just kept shining, no matter what was going on. I think of the light here like that, like a splinter of a star that’s fallen to earth: it just shines, no matter what is happening. Summer, winter, storm, fine weather. People can rely on it.
M.L Stedman
Over the years I've really believed when you think you're in danger, you are probably not and when you have no idea, you probably are.
Rodney Cocks
She looked at me with those empty eyes, and I thought, I'm going to make sure I fill them up with something.
Cath Crowley
Never love that which you cannot keep.
Alexandra Adornetto
My dad was a magician too. Got in his car and disappeared.
Cath Crowley
Tell me you won't go, tell me you'll stay forever, tell me you love me.
C.J. Archer
Soundless echoes - no voice,Sadness doth keep thee at bay,Stagnation rises as ebb & flow,Nothing alters,Unless you choose to break away.
Truth Devour
When blackened night falls, darkness exists if one chooses to rely on sight as thy only guide.
Truth Devour
I sometimes wish I could spontaneously combust. Burn until nothing but ash is left, to be washed away by the wind and the rain.
A.B. Shepherd
Things are not as they seem. You do not understand. There is no escape. This is all there is.” I had never seen eyes filled with so much sadness.
A.B. Shepherd
She brushed the tears from their faces and sang them a melancholy lullaby. Her obvious devotion to her daughters pulled at my heart strings, making my chest ache with longing for my own mother.
A.B. Shepherd
Where were me parents? Where were Becky? I felt so alone, so lost that I could not see. By that I mean, everything round me were a blur, everything inside me were a blur of fear and shock. I heard meself crying and moaning, My oh my, my oh my . . . I still have nightmares ’bout that time. I still feel like a sharp piece ofice has stabbed me heart real deep. I was filled, filled to the brim with utter baffle and utter loneliness. p. 15
Louis Nowra
You're a dead man". I hear his voice again, and I see the words on my face when I get back in the cab and look in the rearview mirror.It makes me think of my life, my nonexistent accomplishments and my overall abilities in incompetence."A dead man", I think. He's not far wrong.
Markus Zusak
He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.
Kassandra Cross
And in the end blood and tears are alike because they stop too.
Elizabeth Scott
Her eyes are liquid and draining out of her.
Marianne Curley
I wanted to go to him to save me, but he was the one who broke me this time.
Nikki Rowe
I've never been the most important person to anybody - not even myself.
Ranata Suzuki
I've never been the most important thing to anybody - not even myself.
Ranata Suzuki
You can't remain in a state of sheer panic and terror indefinitely, and both had run their course. Ever since, I've thought that must be why we cry: our bodies are coping with something our minds and hearts can't absorb by themselves.
Saroo Brierley
She was like a lone angel floating above the surface of the earth, laughing with delight because she could fly but crying out of loneliness.
Markus Zusak
She became a story, one I have mostly forgotten. One I can't end because she died a long time ago.
Elizabeth Scott
I thought living dead girls couldn't feel pain, thought I was emptied out but I'm not, I'm not.
Elizabeth Scott
I have been smashed and put back together so many times nothing works right. Nothing is where it should be, heavy thumping in my shoulder where my heart now beats.
Elizabeth Scott
There is no need to put your heart in a bottle, then you will die.- Ty from Stolen
Lucy Christopher
The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won’t let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights.
John Dickson
Inspiring others is the pathway to your own discoveries
Robin Craig Clark
Ache my bones, flame my muscles, tingle my nerves, but you will never taint my beautiful mind & I will overcome this condition with the belief that I already have. - CRPS AWARENESS -
Nikki Rowe
I own my past, it hasn't been grande' But it's had some pretty great moments. I own my movements of now, it isn't what I've dreamt, but I'm closer than I was before.I own my future, it is going to test me, But I trust I have the strength to pull through. Life isn't what happens to us, but what we choose to become.
Nikki Rowe
We can all make a difference in the lives of others in need, because it is the most simple of gestures that make the most significant of differences.
Miya Yamanouchi
Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.
Isobelle Carmody
I loved everything about her, and I didn't care how dark she got. If anything it was what I loved the most, the veil of pain that fell across her face most of the day, and all of the night.
Brendan Cowell
When I was young I wanted so much to be like her. What a blessing are those moments when there is nothing to worry about, no thought of trouble or grief in the world.
Belinda Jeffrey
I could feel their grief as if it were a beast holding us down.
Belinda Jeffrey
When someone you love...when they die, you want it undone. You'd do anything to have them back, and it's easy to believe that if only this had happened or that had happened, everything would be fine. And that's what makes you angry. What makes you hate. You don't want to believe that sometimes bad things happen just because they do.
Elizabeth Scott