T.R. Patrick Quotes

What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down.

In the next world I could not be worse than I am in this.

That, " said Kail, "was my mother.

You can't have a goal without determination, because without the determination the goal will die.

What happens to you when you get older? Do you just forget everything from before you turned eighteen? Do you make yourself forget?

Age is a funny thing. So are appearances. Neither is relevant to what one knows, in my opinion.

It'll make you look rugged, ' Mel says.'Because I woke up this morning, ' I say, 'and the one thing I realized I lacked was ruggedness.

She washed he hands, then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulously."I've been rather busy, " I said. "With the running like hell and hiding all night.

The stigma of mental illness is first and foremost a social justice issue!

Self-stigma refers to the state in which a person with mental illness has come to internalize the negative attitudes about mental illness and turns them against him- or herself.

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

So long as this struggle known as life goes on, there will always be the music to fit the mood and make it better.

It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy.

It's nice to be able to do things for other people, isn't it?That's why it's fun to talk in the third person sometimes.

Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.

Back in our apartment, lights out, The Professor emerged from beneath the bed." - from "The Professor Spends the Night, " in issue 4 of Literary Orphans

There is a difference between the truth and what we wish were true.

I wish I felt as calm as I look

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it.

The newly-minted captain is told to let nothing stop him but to do nothing that would risk his ship or his crew.

Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today.

Happiness, satisfaction, fulfillment, joy, love... All these things work the same way. The more you search for them, the less likely you are to find them.

I think the more we fill our lives with more and more things we have to do, the less and less time we are spending on who we have to be.

over his own dark Cealdish beard. “Nothing like your marvelous facebear,

Decide, first, to simply be.

Doing, in a life of balance, should be driven from who you have decided to be.

money I could hardly think of it. “Go on, take it.

I don't want to die. I want to live. I want to live long enough so I can really live.

And he wallowed in disgust and loathing, and his hair stood on end at the delicious horror.

Bast looked at him incredulously."The whole world is burning down, "he said."Open your eyes.

Asleep she was a painting of a fire. Awake she was the fire itself

As my father used to say: “There are two sure ways to lose a friend, one is to borrow, the other to lend.” - Kvothe the Bloodless (The Name of The Wind)

Definition of a Writer: One who tells stories that demand to be told.

The back of my hand to guilt.

HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listenin

There's a bunch od huge churchs clustered together, trying to blend in with all the family-themed restaurants, because salvation is as easy as chicken wings, I guess.

We would do what we must. The world is big. Surely there is a space in it for one like you and one like me.

Even if it’s a really funny joke, don’t laugh if the devil’s the one telling it!

Every sea to scare the sailor, I have sailed.

If you ever doubt anything here, if you ever not know what to think or who to trust, you trust Todd, okay? You remember that.

A dam tears at all the interconnected webs of river valley life.

With you, there's always music.

...every piece of the laughing was a tiny bird come tumbling out to fly around the room.

What's wrong with (Captain) Jack Aubrey?""Everything, since he has a command and I have not.

People who don’t like conflict have an amazing ability to avoid it, even when they know it’s theoretically necessary

The lack of conflict is precisely the cause of one of the biggest problems that meetings have: they are boring

I don’t think anyone ever gets completely used to conflict. If it’s not a little uncomfortable, then it’s not real. The key is to keep doing it anyway

conflict is productive

I had gotten so used to the taste of rain that I forgot what the sun tasted like. Bittersweet.

God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now.