“The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.”— Franz Wright, amazon.com
“Don’t be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth.”— Jalaluddin Rumi, amazon.com
“There’s no such thing as ruining your life. Life’s a pretty resilient thing, it turns out.”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“Sometimes you don't need a goal in life, you don't need to know the big picture. You just need to know what you're going to do next!”— Sophie Kinsella, amazon.com
“This game has got to be about more than winning. You're part of something here... along the way, I want you to cherish it, because when it's gone, it's gone forever.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“We're in hell right now gentlemen. Believe me. And we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“It's the guy everybody's looking at first - the leader of a team - who will support you when they understand you. Who will break their ribs and their noses and their necks for you, because they believe. 'Cause you make them believe.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“That's what a leader's about: sacrifice. The times he's gotta sacrifice because he's gotta lead, by example. Not by fear and not by self-pity.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“On any given Sunday you're gonna win or you're gonna lose. The point is - can you win or lose like a man?”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“Because we know when we add up all those inches, that's gonna make the fucking difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'…”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so sma…”— Al Pacino, Tony D'Amato, amazon.com
“They say that there are moments that open up your life like a walnut cracked, that change your point of view so that you never look at things the same way again.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com
“There are moments which mark your life. Moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this. Sometimes you can feel such a moment coming. That’s the test, or so I tell myself. I tell myself that at times like that, strong people keep…”— John Hobbes, imdb.com
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”— André Gide, amazon.com
“You’ve got to be a warlord against your demons and you’ve got to keep your sword sharp. I’m as confused as anybody in regards to the great What It All Means but this is what keeps me here. Life can be a nightmare, pure annihilation and bad days that crush you flat, but I’m sticking around. I plan to…”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com
“Basically what it comes down to is I suck at life like how some people are bad pool players or awful cooks but I’m trying to be better.”— Adam Gnade, amazon.com