J.D. Roth Quotes

We have lost awe and wonder. In reference to the mystery of life itself, we've lost respect for movement in our planet.

I think that's the most important thing-two things really, have fun and be yourself.

Forget college, forget everything else, just educate yourself, your world around you, everything around you.

There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.

It seems so odd to me, an odyssey How honesty is honestly the rarest thing upon us Its astonishing.

The way you eat is inseparable from your core beliefs about being alive. Your relationship with food is an exact mirror of your feelings about love, fear, anger, meaning and transformation.

Anyway, I am unfitted to hold down a job anywhere unless they were to pay me for getting angry at the world." 96

It's always irritated me that people say, 'Where's the action? Oh wow, there's no action here; let's go somewhere else.' These people will never find the action.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

You stick your head above the crowd and attract attention and sometimes somebody will throw a rock at you. That's the territory. You buy the land, you get the Indians.

The truth has a way of changing people's plans.

Dreams? If only they had been! But I don't need dreams, Doctor, that's why I hardly have them—because I have this life instead. With me it all happens in broad daylight!

Shamanic healing is a journey. It involves stepping out of our habitual roles, our conventional scripts, and improvising a dancing path.

Dance is movement, is action, and like all action, it reveals us to ourselves in the doing.

Politeness is deception in pretty packaging.

A chasm reminds us that there is a fine line between bravery and idiocy.

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

I feel like myself, strong and weak at once - allowed, at least for a little while, to be both.

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places.

I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.

You put too much stock in human intelligence, it doesn't annihilate human nature.

You don’t believe things because they make your life better, you believe them because they’re true.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.

Trust me when I tell you, Eaton boy, that resisting is worth doing.

Too late, but I understand. That we don't perish of understanding everything too late, that is a miracle. But we do perish of that -- of just that.

People love to make excuses, forget all the excuses, if it doesn't work out, failure is the best thing that can happen to somebody, people are extremely scared of failure.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

If you can't draw something, just draw it.

Resisting is worth doing.

An eyewitness account is evidence that an artist has proposed a work of art. But documentary evidence (i.e. a photograph) is more conclusive.

A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your way.

A moving shadow means more to us than a body at rest. We are no longer taken in by a fixed grin. We know that only death has a rictus.

There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

Don't be a complainer; make things better, let it go, or take action to make it better.

I just wanted to be in show biz. I wanted to make music and sing and dance, tell jokes and stories, make ya smile, make ya cry - and charge you $ 8.50

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

I am not an encore, not a pudding, I am the main dish.

I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.

I do know who you are. I just needed to be reminded.

Don’t worry about me handling the pain," I say. "I’ve had a lot of practice.

Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate is something you have an affair with.

You're not a coward just because you don't want to hurt people.

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Dance has been my medium, my metaphor, my message and my meditation.

A song without a hook is like a train without rails. It skitters all over the place, bangs into everything. Boom! Crash! There goes Grand Central Station. Crushed by a train.

The self is a dance, constantly in motion.

My mother told me once that we can't survive alone, but even if we could, we wouldn't want to. Without a faction we have no purpose and no reason to live.