S.L. Wallace Quotes
I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.
Military service is not just a vocation. It is a way of life, an attitude that you carry in your heart even after you are discharged.
It’s one thing to have the respect of your peers in the business. Their opinions are not always verbalized but if you are doing the right thing you don’t need validation.
In general the assumption of all of us, child or adult, was that this was a new country and that a new country had no history. History was something that applied to other places.
For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we're in port.
You own your feelings. You own your thoughts. You control both. No one has the right to any of it—to any of you without your permission.
...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.
Testing the wrong person can prove a massive failure for the antagonist.
Never spend more time worrying about somebody or some situation (that plays no significant role in your life) more than you do about yourself.
Just because I understand does not mean I agree.
The reasons that center on others are easy to manipulate. All hollow things are light.
The fraud part of me was always there, just as a puzzle piece, objectively speaking, is a true piece of the puzzle even before you see how it fits.
For the listener, who listens in the snow, / And, nothing himself, beholds /Nothing that is not there and the nothing that is.
In the heat of the moment, rational thinking tends to elude us.
Don’t hate on someone whose hard work placed them on the road to success, while your envy and ill-intent put you on a path toward failure.
Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.
Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.
It's been said that actions speak louder than words. Sometimes, it's what you don't say or do, that sends the loudest message.
One truth that has helped me accept some of the most difficult moments and heartbreaking decisions in my life is that I already have all for which I ask. I am blessed! I am delivered from my worries!
There is a perfect rout of characters in every man—and every man is like an actor’s trunk, full of strange creatures, new & old. But an actor and his trunk are two different things
Yes, my sister is weird and says crap like en route. I smirk - it's a common facial tic of mine - and turn to her.
From the moment I could even understand what “respect” was I knew it was not a choice but the ONLY option.
Focus on patience, loyalty, intelligence, greed, dissatisfaction and pride.
Accept that you will not always deal with situations with polished sophistication but trust that you have the power and exercise the will to improve how you cope.
Be on guard. The road widens, and many of the detours are seductive.
Each day, wake up with a plan. Don’t just approach your days in an unfocused void. That state of mind leaves too much room for discontent, opposition, unhappiness and hopelessness.
I think I was very often bored as a child, but boredom is not what I knew it as—what I knew was that I worried a lot
To be black in America is a wild and endless assault on the senses. You can spend every day fighting off your spiritual and intellectual extinction.
David Foster Wallace: Because I'd like to be the sort of person who can enjoy things at the time instead of having to go back in my head and enjoy them then.
He believed the stars were wishes, and that one day they would all come true.
Survival, it is called. Often it is accidental, sometimes it is engineered by creatures or forces that we have no conception of, always it is temporary.
She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.
You should always be your greatest motivator. Never leave that power in someone else’s hands. Once you learn to love the person you are, there are no limits to the person you can become.
It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination, ' as in ontological erasure.
Issues can only be resolved if each person accepts accountability in the problem.
We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.
