H.P. Oliver Quotes

All limitations are self-imposed.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

it is a serious thing // just to be alive / on this fresh morning / in this broken world.

The children of any nation are its future. A country, a movement, a person that does not value its youth and children does not deserve its future.

Goalkeepers need an element of insanity.

A woman's mind is cleaner than a man's: She changes it more often.

I think the fakest thing in the world is to judge someone on how they look.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

For a moment you forget how much the loss hurts. Then you remember and it buries you.

I used to feel like I was drowning. So I stopped trying to swim.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

Real food doesn't have ingredients, real food is ingredients.

Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.

Everything I loved became everything I've lost.

Every girl is beautiful, it's society that's ugly.

You can't always tell when someone's keeping something inside and not really happy.

We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.

One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began.

The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication.

My religion is nature. That’s what arouses those feelings of wonder and mysticism and gratitude in me.

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.

It gets really dark before it gets light.

You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.

I profoundly believe that the power of food has a primal place in our homes that binds us to the best bits of life.

The only person to blame is the person making up the bullshit.

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

Blame where you must, be candid where you can, And be each critic the Good-natured Man.

You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.

In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

We see with the eyes, but we see with the brain as well. And seeing with the brain is often called imagination.

People will make a life in their own terms, whether they are deaf or colorblind or autistic or whatever. And their world will be quite as rich and interesting and full as our world.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

Hello, sun in my face. Hello you who made the morning and spread it over the fields...Watch, now, how I start the day in happiness, in kindness.

I don't think anyone really knows the purpose of their existence.

Sugar is the next tobacco, without a doubt, and that industry should be scared. It should be taxed just like tobacco and anything else that can, frankly, destroy lives.

I can't drown my demons. They know how to swim.

I was extremely unpopular at school. Once the hardest kid in school beat me up and there was a plan for about 30 other kids to kick me in the face once I was down. Good times!

Homicide is 0.8% of deaths. Diet-related disease is over 60%. But no one talks about it.

The fight for freedom must go on until it is won; until our country is free and happy and peaceful as part of the community of man, we cannot rest.

Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.

I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.

Food is one of life's greatest joys yet we've reached this really sad point where we're turning food into the enemy, and something to be afraid of

I held my breath as we do sometimes to stop time when something wonderful has touched us.

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing