Edd Byrnes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
-
Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
-
We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
-
When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
-
Laughing and crying are very similar. They're an extreme response to life. You see it in children who start laughing hysterically.
-
When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.
-
Godot is whatever it is in life that you are waiting for: 'I'm waiting to win the lottery. I'm waiting to fall in love'. For me, as a child, it was Christmas. At least that eventually came.
-
People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
-
Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case.
-
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
-
Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
-
My life, my family and my friends are back in the U.K., so ideally I would love the kind of career that is split between London and New York.
-
The thing is, I live a very public life, and I have to keep things personal, or else I have no personal life. It's very difficult.
-
I have to give importance to my personal life, my family, parents, and sisters. I hope I can strike the right balance.
-
Marriage counselors in particular all strongly recommend divorcees try to understand their role in a divorce before re-marrying. Statistics show if you re-marry before you've clearly seen things from the biter's point of view - you're re-bounded to fail again!
-
'Fallen Too Far' was my first NYT bestseller. That changed my life.
-
Recreating the experience of, say, bereavement in my own head is pretty rough. I was used to switching off from emotions every day of my working life as a journalist, but in fiction, you have to feel it 100%, or else it's a flat experience for the reader.
-
I am pro-choice, but I don't consider that inconsistent at all with pro-life - there's no way that having an abortion, ever, is an easy decision, and it more often errs on the side of absolutely wrenching, not to mention physically debilitating.
-
I have been to a few A-list parties, but not massively. It's not my life, but it's fun dipping into it.
-
Life is a game with many rules but no referee. One learns how to play it more by watching it than by consulting any book, including the holy book. Small wonder, then, that so many play dirty, that so few win, that so many lose.
-
I feel like I have some stuff that matches 'Fight Song,' not in necessarily the message exactly but in the emotion and honesty.
-
We artists are indestructible; even in a prison, or in a concentration camp, I would be almighty in my own world of art, even if I had to paint my pictures with my wet tongue on the dusty floor of my cell.
-
The divorce was the toughest thing in my life. It still hurts.
