Deepak > Deepak's Quotes

“People think a soul mate is your perfect fit, and that's what everyone wants. But a true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that is holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life.

A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake. But to live with a soul mate forever? Nah. Too painful. Soul mates, they come into your life just to reveal another layer of yourself to you, and then leave.

A soul mates purpose is to shake you up, tear apart your ego a little bit, show you your obstacles and addictions, break your heart open so new light can get in, make you so desperate and out of control that you have to transform your life, then introduce you to your spiritual master...”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“In love there are two things - bodies and words. ”
― Joyce Carol Oates

“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
― Dr. Seuss

“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
― Anais Nin

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.”
― Stephen King

“Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.”
― Don Roff

“Writer’s block is only a failure of the ego.”
― Norman Mailer

“A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
― Thomas Mann, Essays of Three Decades

“A word after a word after a word is power.”
― Margaret Atwood

“Only half the story is true. The rest is necessary.”
― John Yau

“I don't know the question, but sex is definitely the answer.”
― Woody Allen

“So what? All writers are lunatics!”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkspell

“My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own basic principles. Every word, every action, every moment counts. (This is the pattern on which everybody makes mistakes [or] becomes irrational — not relating their one action or one conviction to another.”
― Ayn Rand, Journals of Ayn Rand

“Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. He idolized it all out of proportion...no, make that: he - he romanticized it all out of proportion. Yeah. To him, no matter what the season was, this was still a town that existed in black and white and pulsated to the great tunes of George Gershwin.'

Uh, no let me start this over.

'Chapter 1.
He was too romantic about Manhattan, as he was about everything else. He thrived on the hustle bustle of the crowds and the traffic. To him, New York meant beautiful women and street-smart guys who seemed to know all the angles...'.

Ah, corny, too corny for my taste. Can we ... can we try and make it more profound?

'Chapter 1.
He adored New York City. For him, it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. The same lack of individual integrity that caused so many people to take the easy way out was rapidly turning the town of his dreams in...'

No, that's going to be too preachy. I mean, you know, let's face it, I want to sell some books here.

'Chapter 1.
He adored New York City, although to him it was a metaphor for the decay of contemporary culture. How hard it was to exist in a society desensitized by drugs, loud music, television, crime, garbage...'

Too angry, I don't want to be angry.

'Chapter 1.
He was as tough and romantic as the city he loved. Behind his black-rimmed glasses was the coiled sexual power of a jungle cat.'

I love this.

'New York was his town, and it always would be.”
― Woody Allen, Manhattan

“Fair speech may hide a foul heart.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Two Towers

“Men are born to succeed, not to fail.”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Imagination is the highest form of research.”
― Albert Einstein

“What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it."
"Isn't it?”
― Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead

“Sometimes questions are more important than answers.”
― Nancy Willard

“We are wiser than we know.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Bill: Superman didn't become Superman. Superman was born Superman. When Superman wakes up in the morning, he's Superman. His alter ego is Clark Kent. His outfit with the big red "S", that's the blanket he was wrapped in as a baby when the Kents found him. Those are his clothes. What Kent wears - the glasses, the business suit - that's the costume. That's the costume Superman wears to blend in with us. Clark Kent is how Superman views us. And what are the characteristics of Clark Kent. He's weak... he's unsure of himself... he's a coward. Clark Kent is Superman's critique on the whole human race.”
― Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill

“Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very;' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.”
― Mark Twain

“There is no real ending. It’s just the place where you stop the story.”
― Frank Herbert

“I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“Writing is both mask and unveiling.”
― E.B. White

“Writing- the profession in which you stare at a computer screen, stare out the window, type a few words, then curse repeatedly.”
― Drew Goodman

“People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.”
― Henri Nouwen

“I could not think without writing.”
― Jean Piaget