J.D. Roth Quotes

Rhythm is our universal mother tongue. It's the language of the soul.

Women are great. When they dig you, there's nothing they won't do. That kind of loyalty is hard to find - unless you've got a good dog.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

We've all got out self-destructive bad habits, the trick is to find four or five you personally like the best and just do those all the time.

Your body is the ground metaphor of your life, the expression of your existence. It is your Bible, your encyclopaedia, your life story.

When you can spell subpoena without thinking about it, that's when you know you've made it.

A character I would love to play is Iago, from Othello.

I'm a family oriented guy; I've personally started four or five this year.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

The Breakfast of Champions isn't cereal, it's the competition!

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.

There is a dance that only you know how to do

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company

Mine is the art of inspiring people to turn themselves inside out, transform their suffering into art, their art into awareness and their awareness into action

In 'Insurgent' we realise how large the world really is

What you pay attention to grows. Pay attention to your loveliness, your magnificent self. Begin now.

Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest.

What makes you different, makes you dangerous.

It dont matter WHAT your doin, ust as long as you LOOK GOOD doin it

The spirit in motion heals, expands, circles in and out of the body, moving through the layers of consciousness from inertia to ecstasy. Open to the spirit, and you will be transformed.

Each of us is a moving center, a space of divine mystery

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

To shed the past, forget the future and fall into the moment feet first.

Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

Sometimes crying or laughing are the only options left, and laughing feels better right now.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

If you have a body you are a dancer

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

If you pay attention to when you are hungry, what your body wants, what you are eating, when you've had enough, you end the obsession because obsession and awareness cannot coexist.

It takes discipline to be a free spirit.

It's best to give while your hand is still warm.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

Music is like girlfriends to me; I'm continually astonished by the choices other people make.

We believe in ordinary acts of bravery, in the courage that drives one person to stand up for another.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

You tasted it. Isn't that enough? Of what do you ever get more than a taste? That's all we're given in life, that's all we're given of life. A taste. There is no more.

After you leap, before you land, is God.

I feel like someone breathed new air into my lungs. I am not Abnegation. I am not Dauntless. I am Divergent.

Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

I will be my undoing If I become my obsession.

Do remember, though, that sometimes the people you oppress become mightier than you would like.

Rap is poetry to music, like beatniks without beards and bongos.

All that we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.

Ride the energy of your own unique spirit.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.