Quotes by Canadian Authors - Page 156

When days seem like years and years feel like days.
Robert Brown Fulford
Occasionally we all do wrong things from right motives. Only time can prove us right or wrong. The past is the past. Nothing can change it now, and who is to say that it was all wrong, anyway?
Mary Balogh
It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
Don't live the same year 75 times and call it a life.
Robin S. Sharma
Nobody works better under pressure. They just work faster.
Brian Tracy
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind... At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme, I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy, and wise in spite of themselves.
Robertson Davies
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.
Rohinton Mistry
Maybe reading was just a way to make her feel less alone, to keep her company. When you read something you are stopped, the moment is stayed, you can sometimes be there more fully than you can in your real life.
Helen Humphreys
Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
William Gibson
Time isn’t precious at all, because it is an illusion. What you perceive as precious is not time but the one point that is out of time: the Now. That is precious indeed. The more you are focused on time—past and future—the more you miss the Now, the most precious thing there is.
Eckhart Tolle
Who needs toothpaste when you have cigarettes?
kevin mcpherson eckhoff
Your worst battle is between what you know and what you feel!
Alex Haditaghi
If you don't get the wrong people out of your life, you will never be able to get the right people in it!
Alex Haditaghi
Attachment to the hurt is the root of all suffering.
Iva Ursano
It's not that life is good or bad. Life just is. It's how you handle the shitty situations that will determine whether it's good or bad.
Iva Ursano
...in life, a man only comes to a few crossroads that can shape his future for good or bad. Sometimes one recognized these crossroads, and could stop and think about the right decision. But other times, the choice could only be seen with the clarity that came afterward.
Morgan Rhodes
What melody will our rivers remember if songbirds forget how to sing?
Sheniz Janmohamed
Through technology the whole world has now become the media's parish, talk-show hosts the prophets, actors and musicians the priests, and any script will do for the Scriptures as long as moral constraints are removed. Sitting before a well-lit box is all the cultic performance needs, and each person can enthrone his or her own self as divine. Truth has been relegated to subjectivity; beauty has been subjugated to the beholder; and as millions are idiotized night after night, a global commune has been constructed with he arts enjoying a totalitarian rule.
Ravi Zacharias
If people are not laughing at your Goals, your Goals are not big enough!
Alex Haditaghi
One must pursue things for the right reasons.
Shane Peacock
Every big dream starts small.
Robin S. Sharma
True resilience is found in our ability to get up, to create space for a message we may not want to hear, to listen like we’ve never listened before, the then to act on that message – even if that means changing the way we’ve been hurtling down our path in life for decades.
Steph Jagger
The place we get lost is the very place that we're found, all we need to do is put one foot in front of the other.
Steph Jagger
My vibration is always in the sublime sunshine of life!
Debbie A. Anderson
I will not have youbuild me into your lifewhen what i want is tobuild a life with you-the difference
Rupi Kaur
Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise, and there has been much of late to enourage that amnesia. (Microserfs, p 366)
Douglas Coupland
In the end, we'll all become stories
Margaret Atwood
And that's what we'll do every day. If you or your friends spray-paint obscenities on our walls, we'll scrub them off, and the people will come. if you break our windows, we'll fix them, and the people will come. If you hurt us, we'll wash off the blood, slap on some bandages and the people will come...any wound you inflict, we'll stitch up. We're not going to stop, no matter what you do. This work is too important. Too many lives are at stake.
Robert J. Wiersema
But what I knew then was that nobody-not even my mother-was to be trusted in a strange world that showed very little of itself in the surface.
Robertson Davies
Learning was a by-product of her search for pleasure
David Brooks
A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different results."Father Peter stopped smiling. "The same could be said of you. What makes you so sure you're right? And so sure I'm wrong?""The difference is that I made a mistake once, out of ignorance," Tim said. "Everything I've done since then has been to try to make amends.""To earn forgiveness.""To protect the innocents." Tim smiled, "And yes, to earn forgiveness.
Robert J. Wiersema
You shouldn't do that," said Laura. "You could set yourself on fire.
Margaret Atwood
love everyone,trust a few and rely on nobody
Claude lavallee
Waiting around to be perfect never amounts to anything. Don't be a waiter or you'll be serving other people.
Ian Desabrais
Upon achieving a lifelong dream, I thought, this is the way to live your life -- in the moment, and to the fullest.
Lorii Myers
Memories are of the ethereal, and not the material world, that is how I know I am forever.
Michael Poeltl
Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.
Eckhart Tolle
We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.
William Gibson
It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.
Lorii Myers
That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty.
L.M. Montgomery
I don't forgive him," I said."Hell, no, you don't. And why should you? So he can feel better? Get on with his life? And what's he done to help you get on with yours?
Kelley Armstrong
But life, if nothing else, had taught her promises weren't always to be counted on, and what appeared at first a shining chance might end in bitter disappointment.
Susanna Kearsley
You can’t make someone feel good about themselves until you feel good aboutyourself.
Robin S. Sharma
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
Douglas Coupland
I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life they merely get used to it.
Douglas Coupland
Give out what you most want to come back.
Robin S. Sharma
What makes one strong is not the ability to confront adversity and cruelty, but rather the ability to love in spite of it.
Christopher Earle
Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.
Gordon R. Dickson
But wether I am faking on a player piano, or striking the chords with the power of my own mind and hands, the song of my life is equally suspenseful and full of surprises as it rolls off the pulsating sounding board of destiny - a barcarole that either way will leave, I hope, happy echoes behind
Eric Berne
It's simple: What you put in, is what you get out.
Akiroq Brost
We, as human beings, enjoy freedom of choice.Your attitude is your choice!
Lorii Myers
The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.
Earle Birney
Most people think the biggest sacrifice, the greates act of love you can give is to die for someone. And probably it is. But Sometimes it is the opposite. The biggest thing you can do for someone is to live.
Sarah Wylie
You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't.
Brian Tracy
Have the courage to love yourself like you always wished someone would.
Vironika Tugaleva
Sometimes, to love people, I must completely avoid them. Sometimes, to be strong, I must completely fall apart. Sometimes, to create, I must completely destroy.
Vironika Tugaleva
If we learn to be responsible for our own emotions, thoughts, and needs, then we can see other people for who they are as opposed to what they can do for us.
Vironika Tugaleva
Loving yourself isn't just about celebrating your accomplishments and nurturing your talents. Those things are nice, sure. But that's not how we know others love us. We know others love us when they see us with our face on the ground, crying and weak, feeling like we've got nothing to offer the world—and they smile, and they reach out, and they love us anyway. Loving yourself is what you do when you fail, when you don't know, when you screw up, when you forget, when you lose everything. Loving yourself is what you do when you can't approve of what you've done. Loving yourself is what you do when you're not sure if it's going to get better. Loving yourself is what you must do in those moments when you can't like yourself. Real love is when you reach out for no good reason at all, except to love.
Vironika Tugaleva
If being in a relationship never causes you any grief, consider that maybe while you might physically be ‘in’ the relationship; mentally and emotionally you may have ‘checked out’ of the relationship. Relationships take an active presence in order to actually ‘be’ relationships. You can’t ‘care’ without caring and caring isn’t just for sunny days.
Akiroq Brost
Humankind has turned to world into a cruel and inhospitable place. The thing that makes it all bearable is the potential for loving companionship.
Christopher Earle