Y Quotes
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“You do nice things for people you don't even like. Imagine what you'll do for your favorites.”
“You do not 'suffer' if you decide 'that's the way it is' rather than 'why is it this way?'”
“You do not achieve anything without trouble, ever.”
“You do not adequately protect yourself by being half awake when other are sleeping.”
“You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that's all.”
Source: The Long Way
“You do not ask her if she even wants him. That is not at all what it's about. It's not about being sensible, or strong. It's not about being kind. It's not about the soft touch and the kind heart. Beauty and a womb. That's all you are. That's all an adder needs.”
Source: Tangleweed and Brine
“You do not attain success when you associate with those in high positions, It comes when you accept yourself and realize that only you can take yourself to where your heart truly lies.”
“You do not attain to knowledge by remaining on the shore and watching the foaming waves, you must make the venture and cast yourself in, you must swim, alert and with all your force, even if a moment comes when you think you are losing consciousness; in this way, and in no other, do you reach anthropological insight.”
Source: Between Man and Man
“You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.”
Source: Leaves of Healing
“You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.”
“You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.”
“You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No, true freedom in any area of life is the consequence of regular discipline. It is no less true of the life of prayer.”
“You do not become a real pro in your field by doing certain things - you become a pro in your field by doing things in a certain way.”
“You do not become a star, you are born a star. A star is born with that indefinable extra something.”
“You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge. But it can only emerge if something fundamental changes in your state of consciousness.”
Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
“You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses.
You become outstanding by focusing entirely on your strengths.”
Source: #KnowtheTruth: Why Knowing Who You Are Changes Everything
“You do not become outstanding by working on your weaknesses You become outstanding by focusing on your strenghts.”
“You do not beg the sun for mercy.
-Maud'dib's Travail from The Stilgar Commentary”
Source: Dune Messiah
“You do not believe in the magic and power of this book only because you cannot comprehend that it is possible. The lack of faith of your part does not make the power less capable or less real...You only have to open up your mind to the possibilities. There is a sea of power out there, all around us. It doesn't wait until someone believes in order for it to exist. It just does."
-Madison Thorne Grey, Sustenance”
Source: Sustenance
“You do not believe, you only believe that you believe.”
“You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance if you apply yourself to converting all you experience to highest advantage to others. Make the world work, for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation, without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.”
“You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me.”
“You do not bother to think about the past or the future. Now is what really matters.”
Source: U-Day
“You do not build your own houses, nor make your own garments, nor bake your own bread, simply because you know that if you were to attempt all these things they would all be more or less ill done.”
“You do not buy Taco Bell, you rent Taco Bell and then return it to its ecosystem with a couple of flushes.”
“You do not change anything,
only need to make difference.”
Source: My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
“You do not change people's minds by defeating them with logic.”
Source: Models of My Life
“You do not characterize by telling the reader about the character. You do it by showing the character thinking, speaking and acting in a characteristic way. You simply show it and shut up.”
“You do not choose the life you will experience ahead of time. You may select the persons, places and events - the conditions and circumstances, the challenges, the opportunities and options - with which to create experiences. What you create with these is your business.”
“You do not choose this existence but the existence chooses you”
Source: Spoor of an Indian Horse
“You do not choose what your mission is; it will come to you when you are ready!”
“You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.”
“You do not conceive a novel as easily as you conceive a child, nor even half as easily as you create nonfiction work. A journalist amasses facts, anecdotes and interviews with top brass. Enough of these add up to a book. A novelist demands quite different things. He has to find himself in his materials, to know for sure how he would feel and act and the events he writes about. In addition, he requires a catalyst — a person, idea, or emotion which coalesces his ingredients and makes them jell into a solid purpose.”
“You do not control everything, nor does everything control you. You are not entirely at the hands of your environment, nor is it entirely at the hands of you.”
“You do not convince me. You rationalize your actions and because the result is favorable you become right.”
“You do not crave partnership, you crave connection and because you have not given it to yourself, you search for it in all the wrong places in pursuit of immediate gratification from another person.”
Source: Buy Yourself the Damn Flowers: The self-love guide to growing, healing and learning to put yourself first
“You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.”
Source: Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations
“You do not,’ cried Giovanni, sitting up, ‘love anyone! You never have loved anyone, I am sure you never will! You love your purity, you love your mirror—you are just like a little virgin, you walk around with your hands in front of you as though you had some precious metal, gold, silver, rubies, maybe diamonds down there between your legs! You will never give it to anybody, you will never let anybody touch it—man or woman. You want to be clean. You think you came here covered with soap and you think you will go out covered with soap—and you do not want to stink, not even for five minutes, in the meantime.’ He grasped me by the collar, wrestling and caressing at once, fluid and iron at once: saliva spraying from his lips and his eyes full of tears, but with the bones of his face showing and the muscles leaping in his arms and neck. ‘You want to leave Giovanni because he makes you stink. You want to despise Giovanni because he is not afraid of the stink of love. You want to kill him in the name of all your lying little moralities. And you—you are immoral. You are, by far, the most immoral man I have met in all my life. Look, look what you have done to me. Do you think you could have done this if I did not love you? Is this what you should do to love?”
Source: Giovanni’s Room
“You do not cut a check in the state of Kansas to John Doe, executioner. The executioner is paid in cash so there's no trail to him”
“You do not decide you destiny, if you passionately follow your dreams, you reach your destiny.”
“You do not defend a world that is already lost.”
Source: The People's Pottage
“You do not deserve a rogue like me, Arabella. But you have me. I am yours, for the rest of my life."
"And I am yours," she said.
"God help me," he quipped.
Arabella laughed, shoving her elbow in his side. He laughed with her, his lips playing over hers until all else was forgotten.”
Source: Love on a Midsummer Night
“You do not destroy an idea by killing people, you replace it with a better one.”
“You do not determine a man's greatness by his talent or wealth, as the world does, but rather by what it takes to discourage him.”
Source: Keys to daily living
“You do not determine your success by comparing yourself to others, rather you determine your success by comparing your accomplishments to your capabilities.”
Source: Steps to the Top
“You do not die all at once. Some tissues live on for minutes, even hours, giving still their little cellular shrieks, molecular echoes of the agony of the whole corpus.”
Source: Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery
“You do not do health and safety in the workplace. If the job is dangerous, you leave as soon as possible to your next position.”
“You do not drown simply by plunging into the water, you only drown if you stay beneath the surface.”
Source: Warrior of the Light
“You do not eat these carnivorous animals, you imitate them; you hunger only for the innocent and gentle beast who do no harm to anyone, who are attached to you, who serve you,and that you devour as a reward for their servicers.”
Source: The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I
“You do not enter a race to lose”
Source: Wonder Woman: Warbringer