Mawson Bear > Mawson's Quotes

“Why do cats sleep so much? Perhaps they've been trusted with some major cosmic task, an essential law of physics - such as: if there are less than 5 million cats sleeping at any one time the world will stop spinning. So that when you look at them and think, "what a lazy, good-for-nothing animal," they are, in fact, working very, very hard.”
― Kate Atkinson

“This best time to Nap is ... after the one before.”
― Mawson Bear

“They're just weeds, love, they don't belong anywhere.' Her granddaughter stuck out her bottom lip and furrowed her brow.
'That doesn't seem very nice. Everything belongs somewhere.”
― Kathryn Hughes, The Letter

“But what attracted me to weeds was not their beauty, but their resilience. I mean, despite being so widely despised, so unloved, killed with every chance we get, they are so pervasive, so seemingly invincible.”
― Carol Vorvain, A fool in Istanbul - Adventures of a self denying workaholic

“It developed gradually. Quietly. But I remember the moment I thought to myself, ‘Something is not right with my mind. Something is not right here.’ Admitting this was the first step in my recovery. I didn't need anyone to diagnose me with anxiety or depression to know that this was my struggle. I felt so attached to the feelings, the uncontrollable thoughts, the incessant fear, all of which dictated my everyday experience. I allowed my struggle to become my identity. I didn't know I had any other option.

On good days, I feel hopeful. About life. About my recovery. On bad days, I spend my time thinking that life is no better than death. Despite the mental battles I face each day, I remain resilient. Not just for my loved ones, but for myself. Because deep down, I know I deserve it. The relationship I have with myself is one I refuse to give up so easily.”
― Ally K.

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.”
― Hippocrates

“The things you think about determine the quality of your mind.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I have, let me confess it in all humility, a pitiful human wish that someone should know just how clever I have been”
― Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None

“The Americans are masters of gathering intelligence, but they don't know what to do with it.”
― Phạm Xuân Ẩn

“Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.”
― Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled

“The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.”
― Robert Jordan

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”
― E. B. White

“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
― Mark Twain

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

“There is no surer foundation for a beautiful friendship than a mutual taste in literature.”
― P.G. Wodehouse

“in the days of civilization there were many men. They did not think much about the world outside of them because man seemed to be greatly stronger than all that outside world. So they thought mostly about how they could get the better of other people, and so they were likely not to trust each other altogether, not even brother and brother. But now, he thought, when men are very few, each of these young men wanders freely with his bow in hand and his dog at heel, but needs his comrade close at call.”
― George R. Stewart, Earth Abides

“And I’d choose you; in a hundred lifetimes, in a hundred worlds, in any version of reality, I’d find you and I’d choose you.”
― Kiersten White, The Chaos of Stars

“I wonder whether you have Hugh Walpole's latest book?' said Mrs Penn. 'I feel in the mood this week for something epic, something BIG. Now Walpole, you know, I consider a really GREAT writer, I put him second only to Galsworthy. There's something so BIG about him. And yet he's so human with it.' 'And so essentially English,' said Gordon. 'Oh, of course! So essentially English!' 'I b'lieve I'll jest 'ave The Way of an Eagle over again,' said Mrs Weaver finally. 'You don't never seem to get tired of The Way of an Eagle, do you, now?' 'It's certainly astonishingly popular,' said Gordon, diplomatically, his eye on Mrs Penn. 'Oh, asTONishingly!' echoed Mrs Penn, ironically, her eye on Gordon.”
― George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying

“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation.”
― Robert R. McCammon, Boy's Life

“Your success cannot lie in something so tedious as whether you’re liked.”
― Alyssa Cole, How to Catch a Queen

“Robert again faced the sky. “That is a children’s dream, Marian. We are old enough that we must think of realities.”
“The reality is that I have no place, excepting I carve out one alone.”
― A.E. Chandler, The Scarlet Forest: A Tale of Robin Hood

“A real choice doesn't have conditions. A real choice is free.”
― Etaf Rum, A Woman Is No Man