We are all capable of infinitely more than we believe. We are stronger and more resourceful than we know, and we can endure much more than we think we can.
Don't ever turn down pleasure because you were afraid of what other people might say.
Sometimes I wonder if I met everyone in my life in the wrong order.
Male egos require constant stroking. Every task is an achievement, every success epic. That is why women cook, but men are chefs: we make cheese on toast, they produce pain de fromage.
in love: a momentary instance of bein almost interested in someone else as in oneself!
Time is limited and some opportunities never repeat themselves.
He pressed his face into the fabric and breathed in slowly through his mouth and nose, hoping for the faintest smoke and mountain sage and salty sweet stink of Jack but there was no real scent, only the memory of it, the imagined power of Brokeback Mountain of which nothing was left but what he held in his hands.
It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.
I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.
In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.