Mark Matousek Quotes

#1. The French have a term for this brazenness: je m'en foutisme, the brave art of not giving a damn.

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#2. Friends don't need the intervention of a third party. Friendship's a voluntary thing.

Haruki Murakami

#3. The more we remember that life is a gift-that everything changes, we're not in control-the stronger our sense of well-being becomes.

Mark Matousek

#4. Joy is not just about being happy. Joy is a rigorous spiritual practice of saying yes to life on life's terms

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#5. Better not to plant seeds of selfishness than try to eradicate them once they have grown into giant weeds. (91)

Prem Prakash

#6. If you want to fly with eagles, stop swimming with ducks.

T. Harv Eker

#7. There's a myth among amateurs, optimists and fools that beyond a certain level of achievement, famous artists retire to some kind of Elysium where criticism no longer wounds and work materializes without their effort.

Mark Matousek

#8. Many people miss opportunity because it came disguised in overalls.

Henry Ford

#9. When people are in need, you must be present. When people suffer, you must let them know you're suffering with them." "The good side of bad acts?" I say. "I would not say that from horror comes goodness. That would be giving horror too much credit. But goodness prevails in spite of horror.

Mark Matousek

#10. When we set our hearts on knowing the truth, we assist one another in the long tender work of awakening. When the story is right, and the people we love are waiting to listen, we tell each other how to live.

Mark Matousek

#11. [On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Penelope Gilliatt

#12. Everything popular is wrong.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Whatever it takes to break your heart and wake you up is grace.

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#14. When I was younger, I played sports and went to camp. As I got older, my parents began to instill in us the importance of giving back to the community, especially those places around the world that are less fortunate than my very privileged life growing up in Los Angeles.

Katherine Schwarzenegger

#15. Practice being excited.

Bill Foster

#16. Until you are broken, you don't know what you're made of.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#17. As one widow put it to me, Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

Mark Matousek

#18. You don't actually get over things ... you incorporate them. They become part of everything you are. I don't mean that you walk about crying all the time. But you change.

Mark Matousek