The problem with movies is that movies end and your life doesn't. This doesn't appear to cause any trouble, but it does cause confusion, which is almost as bad.
It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.
Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.
Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
The ocean seemed like a sea of Eden. But now we are facing paradise lost.
The early summer sky was the color of cat vomit.
Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.
The notion of a thing, materiality, was something that I think was something very in peoples' minds when they were dealing with earth and metal and different kinds of metals and the interaction of different sorts of material.