Inessential Unnecessary Quotes

#1. You want something you can't have, Gurgeh. You enjoy your life in the Culture, but it can't provide you with sufficient threats; the true gambler needs the excitement of potential loss, even ruin, to feel wholly alive.

Anonymous

#2. Yes, but I did manage to increase the amount of virginity in the world by that method.

Larry Wall

#3. Change is powerful, but change always comes with the possibility of failure as its partner. "This might not work" isn't merely something to be tolerated; it's something you must seek out.

Seth Godin

#4. That feeling of being part of a group moving together is very powerful. It feels like it opens up a zone of possibility, a place for another self to form, also a place for a new world to form.

Stacey D'Erasmo

#5. I don't have many rules to live by," he'd said. "But here's one. It's simple. Don't put anything unnecessary into yourself. No poisons or chemicals, no fumes or smoke or alcohol, no sharp objects, no inessential needles
drug or tattoo
and ... no inessential penises either.

Laini Taylor

#6. The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use.

Leonard Ravenhill

#7. Very early in my life it was already too late.

Elizabeth Wurtzel

#8. That was what "different" meant. It's just another word for lonely.

Lili St. Crow

#9. The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

Sharon Salzberg

#10. I'm tired of everyone looking at me with pity in their eyes. I'm tired of feeling like my heart is being ripped out of my chest every damned day. I'm tired of waking up in the morning, and then remembering ...

A.B. Shepherd

#11. Life is a mystery as deep as ever death can be.

Mary Mapes Dodge

#12. Writing and learning and thinking are the same process.

William Zinsser