“Rain amplifies your mistakes, and water on the track can make your car handle unpredictably. When something unpredictable happens you have to react to it; if you’re reacting at speed, you’re reacting too late. And so you should be afraid.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Fear, Mistakes
“To be a champion, you must have no ego at all. You must not exist as a separate entity. You must give yourself over to the race. You are nothing if not for your team, your car, your shoes, your tires. Do not mistake confidence and self-awareness for egotism.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: champion, Ego
“Gestures are all that I have; sometimes they must be grand in nature.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Gestures, Feeling
“Any problems that may occur have ultimately been caused by you, because you are responsible for where you are and what you are doing there.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Problems, solutions
“Inside each of us resides the truth, I began, the absolute truth. But sometimes the truth is hidden in a hall of mirrors. Sometimes we believe we are viewing the real thing, when in fact we are viewing a facsimile, a distortion.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Truth, Mirrors
“We had a good run, and now it’s over; what’s wrong with that?”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Endings, Sad, Breakups
“We too, must shatter the mirrors. We must look in to ourselves and root out the distortions until that thing which we know in our hearts is perfect and true, stands before us.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: heart, Perfect
“People are always worried about what's happening next. They often find it difficult to stand still, to occupy the now without worrying about the future. People are generally not satisfied with what they have; they are very concerned with what they are going to have.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: worry, Future
“So much of language is unspoken. So much of language is compromised of looks and gestures and sounds that are not words. People are ignorant of the vast complexity of their own communication.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Language, Communication
“The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Hero, Flaws
“To live every day as if it had been stolen from death, that is how I would like to live. To feel the joy of life, as Eve felt the joy of life. To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter every day. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something…”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Death, Joy, Happiness
“That which we manifest is before us; we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Destiny, Failing
“He died that day because his body had served its purpose. His soul had done what it came to do, learned what it came to learn, and then was free to leave.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Dog Quotes, Leaving, purpose
“There is no dishonor in losing the race. There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”— Garth Stein, amazon.comTagged: Dog Quotes, Racing, Life