J.D. Roth Quotes

Energy moves in waves. Waves move in patterns. Patterns move in rhythms. A human being is just that energy, waves, patterns, rhythms. Nothing more. Nothing less. A dance.

Don't be afraid to show your light.. If it ends up being too much for people.. tell them to wear sunglasses!

The fastest way to still the mind is to move the body

Between the head and feet of any given person is a billion miles of unexplored wilderness.

You just have to determine to settle for nothing less than being FULLY ALIVE, to show up, be who you are, and share your gifts.

Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves.

Put your body in motion and your psyche will heal itself.

I used to jog but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Anger is an integrity-producing response to the invasion of your personal boundaries.

I would just like to say that after all these years of heavy drinking, bright lights and late nights, I still don't need glasses. I drink right out of the bottle.

We dance to reclaim our brilliant ability to disappear in something bigger, something safe, a space without a critic or a judge or an analyst.

The dance is not where we lose ourselves. But where we find ourselves.

If you subtracted all of the great artists who never drank, who never went to excess, you wouldn't have any more art left. What kind of poem are you gonna get out of a glass of iced tea?

The truth is... you are hurting me. Not on purpose, I know that. But I love you and every second that you don´t love me back...it hurts.

If you don't do your dance, who will?

The perfect woman has an IQ of 150, wants to make love until 4 in the morning, then turns into a pizza!

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.

I'm not conceited. Conceit is a fault and I have no faults.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

Sometimes, the best way to help someone is just to be near them.

Sweat your prayers, dance your pain, and move on.

Remember, life is just a game and no one gets out alive

Treat yourself as if you already are enough. Walk as if you are enough. Eat as if you are enough. See, look, listen as if you are enough. Because it's true.

It's never been true, not anywhere at anytime, that the value of a soul, of a human spirit, is dependent on a number on a scale.

It reminds me why I chose Dauntless in the first place: not because they are perfect, but because they are alive. Because they are free.

If you want to split a bottle with a friend, then Sammy Hagar is your guy. If you want to split your friend with a bottle than give me a call.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Healing is movement. Disease is inertia. If you put the body in motion, you will change.

If you put a Van Halen album in your record collection, it will melt all the rest of your records.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

I'm not Dauntless - I'm Divergent. I am whatever I choose to be.

Change, like healing, takes time.

He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.

Are you asking me to undress, Tris?' A nervous laugh gurgles from my throat. 'Only ... partially

Only the small things in life are important

I'm Divergent. And I can't be controlled.

I pout my lower lip for a second, but then I grin as the pieces come together in my mind. "THAT'S why you like me!" I exclaim. "Because you're not very nice either! It makes so much more sense now.

Why is your heart racing Tris?

"What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too."

Some things are hard to let go of.

Van Halen can keep providing the rain and I'll keep providing the parade.

People say that life is a cesspool of darkness and dispair. Well we of Van Halen are sailing through it in a yacht!

Your daughter is doing well here. I've been overseeing her training." Since when does "overseeing" include throwing knives at me and scolding me at every opportunity?

You know, most boys would enjoy being trapped in close quarters with a girl." I roll my eyes. "Not claustrophobic people, Tris.

You're too important to just... die.

I'm going to stop a revolution,'' I say. I turn right, and Peter follows me.

Four: Be brave Tris. The first time is always the hardest.