Paul Nitze Quotes

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it.

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles.

No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it

Because this exact leaf had to grow in that exact way, in that exact place, so that precise wind could tear it from that precise branch and make it fly into this exact face at that exact moment. And, if just one of those tiny little things had never had happened, I'd never have met ya. Which makes this leaf the most important leaf in human history

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

For people who are really alive to have life awakened is more important than to get a sandwich.

The most important moments rarely come at a convenient time

Take action in order to move toward your goals.

Life is not a series of pathetic, meaningles actions. Some of them are so far from pathetic, so far from meaningless as to be beyond reason, maybe beyond forgiveness.

Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

The most important part of living is not the living but the pondering upon it.

Every time you come to the limit of what is demanded of you, you are faced with the same problem-to be yourself!

Security is a kind of death.

Your body is free but your heart is in prison. To release your heart, you simply reverse the process which locked it up. First you begin to listen for messages from your heart-messages you may have been ignoring since childhood. Next you must take the daring, risky step of expressing your heart in the outside world. . . . As you learn to live by heart, every choice you make will become another way of telling your story. . . . It is the way you were meant to exist. If you stop to listen, you'll realize that your heart has been telling you so all along.

Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.

Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn't make you who you are. It is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.

History never looks like history when you are living through it. It always looks confusing and messy, and it always feels uncomfortable.

I certainly don't take life lightly. To respect the product that you're using, I think, is very important. I think it does connect you a little bit more.

I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

You may be reborn a thousand times, but you can never know the real, for only that which dies, that which comes to an end, can renew itself.

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.