Ernest Hemingway

You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There’s nothing to that.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

You generate the results in your life that you believe you deserve.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Truth over Harmony.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

Its a choice. You just have to decide that I’m not going to put my energy there. I’m going to decide to let this go. It’s your choice. You can embrace it, you can become a prisoner of bitterness and resentment anger and victim city, or you can just say ‘I’m going to live my life and be happy’.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

That is what we are put in the world for, to get experience and to help others get it. It is the one thing no one can take away from us.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturbation, when it was taken to the limit; that might be all that’s going on right now in a big way.