Nancy Hamer > Nancy's Quotes

“Successful people make their decisions quickly and change their minds slowly. Failures make their decisions slowly and change their minds quickly.”
― Andy Andrews, The Traveler's Gift: Seven Decisions that Determine Personal Success

“Human societies are based on the human tendency to want things, and are geared to satisfying those wants: possessions or facilities to bring ease and personal satisfaction. The results are frequently disappointing, and always terminate in the embarrassing non sequitur of death.”
― Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

“When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.”
― Herman Wouk

“How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.”
― Jonathan Franzen

“Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people.”
― Jonathan Franzen, Freedom

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“For who can say which is the more empowered, them or us, if we can speak to each other successfully across the chasm of time and difference? Do we ourselves not become wiser and stronger every time we grasp the perspective of people whom we once dismissed?”
― Camilla Townsend