Robert Farrar Capon Quotes

If I go to your home, and you're cooking me a meal, I will eat whatever you put in front of me.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

For the first time in a long time, he didn't think of the past. And of all the things he'd lost. He thought only of the present, and what he had. And how it was so much more than he deserved. And he prayed then that he would never, ever lose it.

In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy.

I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

You're just part of the soup of the universe, so just try to enjoy what's good about it.

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

Long only for what you have.

Obviously I've been reading Kafka for a long long time, since I was really young, and even before I ever read him I knew who he was. I had this weird sense that he was some kind of family. Like Uncle Kafka. Now I really think of him that way, the way we think about an uncle who opened up some path for being in a family that otherwise wouldn't have existed. I think of him that way as a writer and a familial figure.

life is not so long that one can grow tired of it

Take what you can have. Rejoice in what you can save, and do not mourn your losses for too long.

Impermanence is very important, crucial for life. That is why instead of complaining about impermanence you have to say "Long live impermanence!"

I am so grateful to be alive. It's ridiculous to be alive.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

Let me posses what I now have, or even less, so that I may enjoy my remaining days, if Heaven grant any to remain.

Playing 13 years is a long time, but I feel really good. It's not like I'm [old]. I'm just thankful.

It is so easy to waste our lives: our days, our hours, our minutes. It is so easy to take for granted the pale new growth on an evergreen, the sheen of the limestone on Fifth Avenue, the colour of our kids’ eyes, the way the melody in a symphony rises and falls and disappears and rises again. It is so easy to exist instead of live. Unless you know there is a clock ticking.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

The key to lasting happiness is to stop looking for it, and to know that you already have it.

Rick stared at him. "Your brother is an alien." "Yeah, but he's a cute one.

What a sweet and succulent morsel: so soft, so salty, so deliciously delectable, it makes me want to wiggle with delight. You should cook for me more often, Roran Stronghammer. Only next time, I think you should prepare several deer at once. Otherwise, I won't get a proper meal.' Roran hesitated, as if unable to decide whether her request was serious and, if so, how he could politely extricate himself froim such an unlooked -for and rather onerous obligation.

From my point of view, things don't have to change to get better. Things are fantastic.

Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going to die when we hear it. I won’t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I’m enjoying it.” I thought about that, and about Jai’s smile. I knew then. That’s the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.