K M > K's Quotes

“Understand: people will constantly attack you in life. One of their main weapons will be to instill in you doubts about yourself – your worth, your abilities, your potential. They will often disguise this as their objective opinion, but invariably it has a political purpose – they want to keep you down.”
― Robert Greene, The 50th Law: Overcoming Adversity Through Fearlessness

“The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
― Robert Greene, Mastery

“person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“For the future, the motto is, "No days unalert.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“You choose to let things bother you. You can just as easily choose not to notice the irritating offender, to consider the matter trivial and unworthy of your interest. That is the powerful move. What you do not react to cannot drag you down in a futile engagement. Your pride is not involved. The best lesson you can teach an irritating gnat is to consign it to oblivion by ignoring it.”
― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power

“Sweet are the thoughts that savour of content, The quiet mind is richer than a crown...”
― Robert Greene

“It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.”
― Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticize, complain, and condemn—and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Success is getting what you want..
Happiness is wanting what you get.”
― Dale Carnegie

“People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.”
― Dale Carnegie

“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be. ”
― Dale Carnegie

“A man unknowingly hurts his partner by speaking in an uncaring manner and then goes on to explain why she should not be upset. He mistakenly assumes she is resisting the content of his point of view, when really his unloving delivery is what upsets her. Because he does not understand her reaction, he focuses more on explaining the merit of what he is saying instead of correcting the way he is saying it. He has no idea that he is starting an argument; he thinks she is arguing with him. He defends his point of view while she defends herself from his sharpened expressions, which are hurtful to her.”
― John Gray, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex

“All truth is safe, and nothing else is safe; and he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal, or both.”
― T.W. Doane, Bible Myths and their Parallels in other Religions

“Perfer et obdura, dolor hic tibi proderit olim. (Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.)”
― Ovid

“And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist

“Sometimes the more educated an abuser, the more knots he knows how to tie in a woman’s brain, the better he is at getting her to blame herself, and the slicker is his ability to persuade other people that she is crazy.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“But you can treat your wife or girlfriend like that, as long as you have a good enough reason. That’s different.” In other words, the abuser’s problem lies above all in his belief that controlling or abusing his female partner is justifiable.”
― Lundy Bancroft, Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

“School made us 'literate' but did not teach us to read for pleasure.”
― Ambeth Ocampo

“It is ironic that many Filipinos learn to love the Philippines while abroad, not at home.”
― Ambeth Ocampo, Rizal Without the Overcoat

“It is safe to say that poetry cannot be translated.”
― Leon Ma. Guerrero, The Young Rizal

“But fidelity to language is often infidelity to thought.”
― Leon Ma. Guerrero, The Young Rizal

“To be with her is a sin, to be without her is a tragedy.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I knew she would be beautiful today, of course I knew, but this is unbelievable. Never in all my years of Christianity has there been talk of an angel like this. My God, she is not even walking, she floats around the room.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“Susannah, Save this letter: it marks the moment that my life finally started. I have never felt closer to Heaven than I felt today on the road with you. I can only hope that it was real, and that you will not change your mind. Now I am away from you, I have never felt further from home, further from myself. Susannah, since the day I met you, I have wanted to let you know that you are a spill of gleaming gold on my otherwise dull and pointless world. Yours always, Lucy”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“I would drape my own soul over her body to protect her from eyes like mine.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn

“My heart lurches, as if it wants to leave my awful body and go make a home in her.”
― Chloe Michelle Howarth, Sunburn