Favorite Josh Lyman Quotes

#1. Some people don't like my songs because they think they're too simple or easy or not that thought-out. I feel like the way I write is pretty simple, in some ways, because I'm trying to connect. I want a lot of people to hear it, and be moved in some way.

Langhorne Slim

#2. No one can take away my freedom to choose how I will react.

Viktor E. Frankl

#3. You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live

William Shakespeare

#4. The natural response to evaluation is to feel judged. We have to mature to a place where we respond to it with gratitude, and love feedback.

Henry Cloud

#5. Painting is silent poetry,
and poetry is painting that speaks.

Plutarch

#6. I know myself as mortal, but this raises the question: "What is I?" Am I an individual, or am I an evolving life stream composed of countless selves?

Charles Lindbergh

#7. A man's got to take care of his family. You live in my house, you sleep your behind on my bedclothes, you put my food in your belly because you are my son; you are my flesh and blood, not because I like you. It is my duty to take care of you. I owe a responsibility to you.

James Earl Jones

#8. The most beautiful things often stand alone.

Jenim Dibie

#9. I have come to have the firm conviction that vanity is the basis of everything, and finally that what one calls conscience is only inner vanity.

Gustave Flaubert

#10. All American males are failed athletes, and it was big time even if it was Little League. It meant a lot to you.

Nick Nolte

#11. Don't waste your time on beaming people up or down. Instead, consider gravity waves as advanced physics of the universe that could be used to travel interstellar distances.

Buzz Aldrin