Pouncey Quotes

#1. Let me be to my sad self hereafter kind.

Peter R. Pouncey

#2. The minute you become something they don't want to look at, they stop looking at you. It's that simple. You join the void. That much I'm sure of."

Ford, G.M. (2012-07-17). Who In Hell Is Wanda Fuca? (A Leo Waterman Mystery) (Kindle Locations 2431-2432). AmazonEncore. Kindle Edition.

G.M. Ford

#3. Poets, like fighters, both reap the benefits of roadwork.

Cameron Conaway

#4. Bereavement seemed to work on him as a kind of blanket allergy, making him edgy and irritable to all the outside world. And of course it was reciprocal; the world receded on him.

Peter R. Pouncey

#5. Train in compassion is to know that all beings are the same and suffer in similar ways, to honor all those who suffer, and to know that you are neither separate from nor superior to anyone.

Sogyal Rinpoche

#6. Will you read this? I think maybe it sucks. Or maybe it's awesome. It's probably awesome. Tell me it's awesome, okay? Unless it sucks. - Nick

Rainbow Rowell

#7. Let it all go, one foot in the grave and one bag packed. We shall go to our end in the warm glow of the past, burning up the memories, all the clutter given back.

Peter R. Pouncey

#8. . . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

Peter R. Pouncey

#9. Friends are "annuals" that need seasonal nurturing to bear blossoms. Family is a "perennial" that comes up year after year, enduring the droughts of absence and neglect. There's a place in the garden for both of them.

Erma Bombeck

#10. The reason he could do none of the necessary things to take care of himself, on the few occasions when he thought of them, was that he was preoccupied elsewhere.

Peter R. Pouncey

#11. It wasn't until after living in California for many years that I realized that you don't believe what anybody says, ever. Whatever they say, they're just making a movie - they just like the way they sound.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Still, wouldn't you, even if entirely secure in your own sense of direction, be at least curious where others were heading, even as you struck out on your own ?

Peter Pouncey

#13. Spring scatters the petals of flowers that are not for the fruits of the future, but for the moment's whim.

Rabindranath Tagore

#14. We all do things we're not particularly proud of, because in the short term they make us feel the smallest bit better. Don't we?

Maggie Pouncey

#15. God has been pleased to give many of these appearances of Himself.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

#16. Networking is not about hunting. It is about farming. It's about cultivating relationships. Don't engage in 'premature solicitation'. You'll be a better networker if you remember that.

Ivan Misner

#17. Every problem has one immediate cause, many remote causes, long term and short term effects

Ikechukwu Joseph

#18. Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Will Rogers