Constructive Living Quotes

#1. The idea is that if you practice the Naikan part of Constructive Living, life becomes a series of small miracles, and you may start to notice everything that goes right in a typical life and not the few things that go wrong.

Will Schwalbe

#2. I grew up with my mom always talking to everyone everywhere, whether it was professionally or in a coffee shop. And my dad was the same way. So I love being able to talk to people, hear their stories and be inspired.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#3. I would never play in England in another shirt other than Arsenal's.

Patrick Vieira

#4. It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

H.G.Wells

#5. I hope my music sets up the platform for me to be able to do lots of things - to have a cowboy-boot line, maybe, or do a perfume or makeup deal.

Miranda Lambert

#6. Everyone thinks they have the prettiest wife at home.

Arsene Wenger

#7. I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance

E. E. Cummings

#8. My brother William is a fisherman, and he tells me that when he is in the middle of a fogbound
sea the water is a color for which there is no name.

Patricia MacLachlan

#9. I was genuinely starstruck when I met Kermit the Frog. Like many stars here tonight, he's a lot shorter in real life.

Bret McKenzie

#10. Anyone can be self-educated if they find the loose end of something to care about passionately.

Francis Spufford

#11. Well, my main instrument is violin, but I think of myself as a songwriter who happens to play violin.

Andrew Bird

#12. I could live alone forever if I just had a view of the sea.

Norah Vincent

#13. If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living?

Noam Chomsky

#14. No one really knows why humans do what they do.

David K. Reynolds

#15. And, lying on my bed in some biscuit-colored hotel room in Nice, with a balcony facing the Promenade des Anglais, I watch the clouds reflected on sliding panes and marvel even how my sadness can make me happy ...

Donna Tartt

#16. Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.

Maya Angelou

#17. Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love
it's being unhappy together.

Graham Greene

#18. Love yourself down to the bone, down to the roof of your mouth. Leave no stone unturned, no cell unwanted. Love down to the blood no matter how fast it boils.

Meggie Royer