Stop Counting Quotes

#1. They have been having sex for eighteen months now (he realizes he has to make himself stop counting, as if his sexual life is a prison term, and he is working toward its completion).

Hanya Yanagihara

#2. Once you experience being loved when you are unworthy, being forgiven when you did something wrong, that moves you into non-dual thinking. You move from what I call meritocracy, quid pro quo thinking, to the huge ocean of grace, where you stop counting or calculating.

Richard Rohr

#3. You're my friend, Danny. You understand? There's no debt between friends.
Maybe it's just that the debt gets so high you stop counting it.

Lilith Saintcrow

#4. How many stars can you count in the sky? How many mistakes can you count in your life? Stop counting! No clever man ever is stuck in the past!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#5. Will you stop counting!' snarled Zaphod.
'Yes,' said Ford Prefect, 'in three minutes and thirty-five seconds.

Douglas Adams

#6. Stop counting your "years" and start enjoying your "seasons".

John Paul Warren

#7. Stop counting crayons, just draw pictures.

Mark Scharenbroich

#8. They're our White brothers. We've all got shortcomings. Stop counting white faces.

S.A. David

#9. ...stop pacing the aisles and counting the miles. Instead, climb more mountains, eat more ice cream, go barefoot oftener, swim more rivers, watch more sunsets, laugh more and cry less. Life must be lived as we go along.

Robert J. Hastings

#10. A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses

A. J. Jacobs

#11. A sure sign of ineptitude and malice is manifested when one's attacker is willing to cover himself with mud in order to try and make some of it adhere to his target.

Christopher Hitchens

#12. Want an effective way of creating positive change in your life? Stop talking about what you hate, and start talking about what you love. Stop accounting for what lack, and start counting all the reasons you have to be grateful.

Karlyle Tomms

#13. Meditate upon what you ought to be in body and soul when death overtakes you; meditate on the brevity of life, and the measureless gulf of eternity behind it and before, and upon the frailty of everything material.

Marcus Aurelius

#14. I've definitely always wanted to be the guy they tell, 'Here's the ball. Go do it.'

Josh Beckett

#15. I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I'm thankful for her. All I know is that when I'm a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Nikki Reed

#16. A woman in love with herself is magnetic.

Abiola Abrams

#17. I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

Barry Sheene

#18. You need to go from wanting to change your life to deciding to change your life.

Jen Sincero

#19. Forty is brilliant and I love it. I'm happier now than when I was 20.

Richard Hammond

#20. Money can't buy you life

Bob Marley

#21. They say bad things come in threes, but I don't think that's true. I think bad things keep right on coming. They don't stop. They'll never stop. It's just too depressing to keep counting, so we start over after the third bad thing.

Hugh Howey

#22. For she was suffering that misery peculiar to the young, that they are going to be cheated by circumstances out of the full life every nerve and instinct is clamouring for.

Doris Lessing

#23. The child should be taught to consider his instructor ... superior to the parent in point of authority ... The vulgar impression that parents have a legal right to dictate to teachers is entirely erroneous ... Parents have no remedy as against the teacher.

John Swett

#24. It wasn't that I wanted a husband and a baby; I didn't, or rather, I only wanted them the way I wanted to live to a hundred: someday, far off, never thinking about the particulars.

Naomi Novik

#25. You can see from a flow diagram who depends on you and whom you can depend on. You can now take joy in your work.

W. Edwards Deming

#26. It's been five weeks since she walked out of my door. I started counting the second the door closed. I wonder when I'll stop.

Katja Millay