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“You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.”
“You can always wake up feeling better; that’s always the hope with a depressive. But no one around me harbors that hope any longer. They are petrified. They are disgusted. At long last, my pain is a serious matter.”
Source: More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction
“You can always wake up on the wrong side of the bed and boo-hiss everyone suffers. We can all be temperamental.”
“You can always win points. Winning people’s respect is a lot more important.”
“You can always work harder and we are capable of extraordinary things.”
“You can always, and easily, give somebody the gift of hope and faith, even in the midst of despair.”
“You can always-always-give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness! If everyone were to give in this way and didn't scrimp on kindly words, there would be much more love and justice in the world!”
Source: Tales from the Secret Annexe
“You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future”
“You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.”
“You can analyze a glass of water and you're left with a lot of chemical components, but nothing you can drink.”
“You can analyze all you want but you can never explain away the God factor. Sometimes God just decides to breathe on something and it's completely His prerogative.”
“You can anchor the mind into answering a question a certain way by giving them a totally unrelated piece of information dropped before.”
“You can and must understand computers now.”
“You can and should go through many strange doors in life, because the more different faces and places in life you get to know, the wiser you will become!”
“You can and will do this.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“You can and will do this. You are entitled to speak your truth in a respectful way.”
Source: Dying on The Inside and Suffocating on The Outside
“You can and you can't — You shall and you shan't — You will and you won't — And you will be damned if you do — And you will be damned if you don't.”
“You can and you must expect suffering.”
Source: My Life for the Poor
“You can and you will make real anything you believe possible from the depths of your being. Desires coming solely from your conscious mind level might not come true, but coming from your true essence will lead you to the realization of your dreams.”
Source: Never Use the ESC Door: A Short Novel Inspired by the Challenges of Learning English as a Second Language
“You can annihilate your logical mind simply by observing it.”
“You can answer your own question. You already know the answer, if you can just gain access to it.”
Source: Travels
“You can anticipate from life exactly what you put into it. You can't go planting apple seeds and expect them to produce oranges.”
“You can appear calm, capable, even high-performing — and still be burning energy on thought loops no one else can see.”
Source: Trapped In Thought: The Hidden Link Between Thoughts, HRV, and Burnout - How The Surfing System™ Can Help
“You can apply the same heart, the same sense of euphoria to any genre.”
“You can appreciate your life, even if it is an imperfect situation. Perhaps your apartment is run down and your furniture is old and inexpensive. You do not have to live in a palace. You can relax and let go wherever you are. Wherever you are, it is a palace.”
Source: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior
“You can approach 'The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death' in a variety or combination of ways: as a startlingly eccentric hobby; as a series of unresolved murder mysteries; as the manifestation of one woman's peculiar psychic life; as a lesson in forensics; as a metaphor for the fate of women; as a photographic study.”
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.”
Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft
“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can never completely put on the page what's in your mind and heart. You can come to the act with your fists clenched and your eyes narrowed, ready to kick ass and take down names. You can come to it because you want a girl to marry you or because you want to change the world. Come to it any way but lightly. Let me say it again: you must not come lightly to the blank page.”
Source: On Writing
“You can argue about globalization and the many benefits it has had, but also you have to appeal to the mass with everything. The Chinese, the Americans, the Russians... Everything becomes this very bland product, and that's all we're producing at the moment. It's driven by money.”
“You can argue about violence. It's destructive, but people are inherently violent in a lot of ways. Abusing drugs is always bad for people and bad for society, but the whole notion of festival is tied up with intoxication.”
“You can argue that conservative values are at odds with feminist ideology, but ultimately the question has to be not only what women are we empowering, but also what are we empowering them to do. White women aren't just passive beneficiaries of racist oppression; they are active participants.”
Source: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
“You can argue that it's a different world now than the one when Matthew Shepard was killed, but there is a subtle difference between tolerance and acceptance. It's the distance between moving into the cul-de-sac and having your next door neighbor trust you to keep an eye on her preschool daughter for a few minutes while she runs out to the post office. It's the chasm between being invited to a colleague's wedding with your same-sex partner and being able to slow-dance without the other guests whispering.”
Source: Sing You Home: A Novel
“You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.”
“You can argue with a philosopher, but you can’t argue with a good song. And I think I’ve got a few good songs.”
“You can argue with someone's opinion, but you can't argue with their story.”
Source: Run Baby Run
“You can arrange your schedule so you have enough time to eat. The place and teh food should be appropriate. Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are. Tell me where you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”
Source: How to Eat
“You can arrest me, but you can't arrest my ideas.”
“You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.”
“You can ask any set decorator on any set where I've had to be in an office, I always kind of claim it - I put Post-its everywhere, and I kind of make it look lived-in.”
“You can ask anybody who's ever worked for me or worked with me, who's ever served with me, when I tell you I'm going to try to do something, I will get up every single day and work my heart out for you.”
“You can ask Beavis...
I get nothing but head.”
“You can ask ChatGPT to tell a story, but none of those stories belong to ChatGPT.”
Source: More Than Words: How to Think About Writing in the Age of AI
“You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, "Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here." Which is why people go into one house and say, "I want to take my shoes off." At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, "Hmm, I can't stay."”
“You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.”
“You can ask me pretty much anything. There'll be things I'll go, 'That feels a little too personal.' But most things I don't have a fear of being asked about.”
“You can ask my wife about my stamina.”
“You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it.”
“You can ask the question, "What's making the boat go forward?" It can't be the wake. The wake can't drive the boat. It's just the trail left behind. It can't make the boat go forward, any more than the trail that you've left behind in your life is responsible for where you're going now in your life. The belief that whatever you've been is what you have to be is a meme - a mind virus.”
“You can ask why all day long if you want to. You can ask God why and your friends why and yourself why until you're buried in nothing but that single question, but you'll never get an answer. This side of heaven, time is the only thing that helps a little bit. So don't give in. Don't let the whys have it. Don't let them take advantage of you. They'll crush your heart and steal your peace and mess with your mind and wrap around you so tight you won't be able to breathe. Don't let the whys ruin your life, child. Every time they try to sneak up, push them aside and move forward. Trust me, it's the only way you can get on with living."
I turn toward the window and think about her words. "What if I can't? Let it go, I mean?"
I don't see her smile, but I can hear it. "You can. I know you can. Because no matter how hard life gets, there's always goodness right around the corner. All you have to do is look for it.”
Source: The Whys Have It
“You can ask yourself, if a film makes a claim, is the claim true or false? Having said that, a style of presenting material doesn't guarantee truth. There's this crazy idea that somehow you pick a style, and by virtue of picking the style, you've provided something that is more truthful. It's as if you imagine that changing the font on a sentence you write makes it more truthful.”