“Buddha was speaking in a village square one day, when one of the inhabitants started to abuse him. Buddha paused and said to the man, "If you offer me a piece of paper and I refuse to accept it, what happens to the paper?" "Why, it stays with me, of course," the villager replied. Buddha smiled gently, "And that is exactly what I am doing with your abuse," he said. "I am not accepting it, therefore it stays with you."” IfsMenSaidWisdomHappensCoursesAcceptingPiecesHe ManOne DayOffersPaperAbuseRefuseVillageSquaresStay With Me Author:Gautama Buddha
“I just feel like this skin is mine. It's aging every day and the tattoos are aging with me. So, I'm going to be an old piece of paper one day with a lot of work on it.” FeelsPiecesMinesOne DayPaperSkinsAgingTattoo Author:Maria Dahvana Headley
“Im saving up to buy art. Nothing famous, but every time Im in a new city I wander into galleries and dream about buying great pieces one day.” ArtDreamCitiesPiecesOne DayWanderSavingBuyingGallerySaving Up Author:Nicola Formichetti
“Several years ago we had an intern who was none too swift. One day he was typing and turned to a secretary and said, "I'm almost out of typing paper. What do I do?" "Just use copier machine paper," she told him. With that, the intern took his last remaining blank piece of paper, put it on the photocopier and proceeded to make five blank copies.” YearsSaidGodUseLastsFivePiecesOne DayPaperYears AgoMachinesStupidityCopiesBlankSecretaryTypingCopiers Author:Dave Barry
“When I went to Czechoslovakia under the old Communist regime one day in the '80s, I thought to myself whatever I do, whatever happens to me in Prague I'm not going to use the name Kafka, I'm just not going to do it. I won't do it; it's so easy, everyone else does, I'm not going to. I'll write the first non-Kafka mentioning piece.” WritingFirstsDoeUseHappensNamesEasyPiecesOne DayCommunistRegimes80sWhatever HappensCzechoslovakiaPrague Author:Christopher Hitchens
“She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.” UsedHatePiecesFailingOne DayRevengeEmsWithout HopeCataloguesInsolenceHate Her Author:William Congreve
“I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.” WritingTryingHandsNextNovelPiecesWeekYouthOne DayMemoirEvolveSatNonfiction Author:Tim O'Brien
“We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.” PeopleThinkingKnowsMenHeartHardEnoughRealizingHellPiecesFansMy HeartOne DayThousandMy FriendsIntenseDedicatedDecemberPantera Author:Phil Anselmo
“You see ... a man like me, a cautious man, has his life all figured out according to a pattern, and then the pattern flies apart. You run around for quite a while trying to repair it, until one day you straighten up again with an armful of broken pieces, and you see that the world has gone on without you and you can never catch up with your old life, and you must begin all over again.” MenWorldTryingRunningGonePiecesBrokenOne DayPatternsLike MeWithout YouCautiousOld LifeBroken Pieces Author:Peter Matthiessen