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Write down what your reader needs, no more, no less. Reading should be textured, but not obscure. Henry James could make an entire paragraph out of a single sentence. The reader is completely sensory deprived of the story until the words show the way. If a reader were practiced, then James’ prose could be followed and appreciated for its economy and elegance.
— Christopher T. Garry
To be a successful general one must be prayful, faithful and work hard
— Osunsakin Adewale
Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come from another writer one or two rungs on the career ladder ahead of you.
— Sara Sheridan
Theoretically there's no reason one should get [writer's block], if one understands that writing, after all, is only writing, neither something one ought to feel deeply guilty about nor something one ought to be inordinately proud of.
— John Gardner, On Becoming a Novelist
It does not take God one second to re-write your ugly past .
— Osunsakin Adewale
You can make it right, just faith the future and work towards it
— oladosu feyikogbon
A lillion miles of journey starts with a foot stamp
— oladosu feyikogbon
whenthings turns upside down, think it over and let new come apace
— oladosu feyikogbon
Your yesterday does not really matter , what matter most is the days to come .
— Osunsakin Adewale
This is not a meritocracy.
— Sallie Tisdale, Talk Dirty to Me
We've got this heat going on, that's all. If it's all the same to you, I'd rather not go into that end ofthings.""Oh, it's all the same to me. You're both adults and you got two working brains between you. Bothof you were raised right, so what you do is your own business. Next time, though, lock the damn doorfirst.
— Nora Roberts, The Villa
Live as long as you want, but you must die; love whatever you want, but you will become separated from it; and do what you want, but you will be repaid for it!
— حجة الإسلام أبو حامد محمد الغزالي, Al-Ghazali's Letter to a Disciple
Erase the parts that make me unhappy. I guess that means emphasizing the parts that do.
— Cassie Mae, How to Date a Nerd
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
My best advice is to first write for yourself and stay in your story and just pour all of your good stuff and bad stuff into it. By 'stuff,' I mean all the experiences and pleasures and little hurts that make up a life. Because even (and especially) the really hard experiences are worth having, if you can channel those emotions into something beautiful.
— Jenny Han
It seems that many of us have the goal of making other people conform to our desires and expectations, whether or not we would admit to such a thing. We see this especially in parents who get upset because their children don’t conform to their expectations, but instead follow a pattern of development that is unique and individual. We often use language with peers and colleagues that encourages them to change their ways of doing things to our ways of doing things: “You should” and “You ought to” are usually presented as advice, but in the end they really are about changing someone else’s ways of doing things. And we may offer this “advice” in a spirit of love and helpfulness, but we can be much more helpful when we help them to find their own ways of changing things. It can be incredibly freeing to spend an entire day not looking to try to change the behaviors, beliefs, or attitudes of other human beings. If we approach life in this way, we may learn much about the other people in our lives instead of trying to make them be like us.
— Tom Walsh, Just for Today, The Expanded Edition
The longer you wait for the future, the shorter it will be.
— Loesje
Always know what they want to hear - not just what everyone knew they wanted to hear but what they didn't even dare name to themselves. Show them the pattern. Give them permission to do what they wanted all along.
— Nicola Griffith, Hild
I'm none too big on giving advice,' Aunt Al said. 'Most times when folks ask for advice, they already know what they should do. They just want to hear it from someone else.
— Jeannette Walls, The Silver Star
I’m doing what I’ve always done. Learning from the mistakes of others who take my advice.
— Nitya Prakash
When someone gives you advice, just ask them to give it in writing and they will either keep mum or will run from there.
— Amit Kalantri
Albeit i may die sleep not in the coffen of gold and even beer no fruit
—  but my impact after depart is my particular to paradise.
No engineer can go upon a new work and not find something peculiar, that will demand his careful reflection, and the deliberate consideration of any advice that he may receive; and nothing so fully reveals his incapacity as a pretentious assumption of knowledge, claiming to understand everything.
— John Bloomfield Jervis
Never give up too quickly, but know when to let go.
— Vanny Lee
The hardest lesson you will ever learn will be to love yourself. But you can do it. There will always be days when you hate yourself, days when you wish you had never been born. But darling, you are beautiful, and if Shakespeare had met you, you would've inspired his 18th sonnet, and if Monet had known you, he would've given up painting water lilies and chosen to paint you instead. I know it’s hard to love yourself, but sometimes it’s okay to be a little selfish with your love..When you begin to feel worthless, remember that the stars died for you. You are made of elements that are thousands of years old, elements that make up every atom of your being. When you want to cut your wrists, remember that the souls of stars live in your veins. Don’t kill them.Live for the life you always wanted but were too scared to pursue.Live for you. Live for me. Live for every person who has ever loved you, for the people who have come before you, so that you may be here today.Live for the fire that burns in your soul, that tells you: keep going, you’re almost there, just a little farther. Because when Rome burned down the emperor didn't run away, he stayed and he sang for his people. Stay. Sing for your people. Sing for us.
— M.K.
Just do what makes sense.
— Jill Telford
Sometimes advises from others are more difficult to bear with than even slang.
— Amit Kalantri
Life is war, war is game so life is game. Either lose or win. Know it earlier
— oladosu feyikogbon
I cannot stress this enough: do not take powerful hallucinogens before going to a Holocaust memorial.
— Nathan Rabin, The Big Rewind: A Memoir Brought to You by Pop Culture
I thought of a sign I had seen... another scary time, when I was two hundred feet up in a giant karri tree in South West Australia. At the point where the precarious spiral ladder grew even steeper and narrower to reach the fire-watch platform atop the tree, the sign said: 'Reassess Your Situation Now: Turn Back if You Are Not Comfortable'. Then, as now, that seemed like damn good advice.
— Robert Michael Pyle, Mariposa Road: The First Butterfly Big Year
I may die young, but at least I'll die smart.... If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart...Best advice I can ever give you.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
behind every smile there is a cunning face
— R. Gayan Priyankara
sometimes you gotta Run before you can Walk.
— Tony Stark
People need to learn the art of making an argument. Often there is no right or wrong. It's just your opinion vs someone else's opinion. How you deliver that opinion could make the difference between opening a mind, changing an opinion or shutting the door. Sometimes folk just don't know when they've "argued" enough. Learn when to shut up.
— J'son M. Lee
It just seemed to me, that if you valued a thing, you found ways to keep it from being compromised.
— R.K. Lilley, Rock Bottom
To give advice to a man who asks what to do with his life implies something very close to egomania. To presume to point a man to the right and ultimate goal — to point with a trembling finger in the RIGHT direction is something only a fool would take upon himself.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Treat your advices like your money, don't give it to others unless they ask for it.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
I speak less because my words are precious and my advices are priceless.
— Amit Kalantri
Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, 'How did he do it? He must be a genius!
— Gian-Carlo Rota, Indiscrete Thoughts
It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.
— Samuel Smiles
Don't bother to ring a bell in the ear that doesn't listen. Move to another ear, and if he doesn't listen to your bell, sit back and listen to his nemesis.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The only people that should be in your life are ones that make you smile.
— Christine Minasian
Wisdom bought with a tremendous price, Jane. You know what William and I suffered. I suppose the benefit to our tumultuous courtship was the trial-by-fire aspect of it all.We learned our lessons via grievous methods, but we did learn them.
— Sharon Lathan, Loving Mr. Darcy: Journeys Beyond Pemberley
Those who believe they know it all should not fret when they ultimately realize they do not, for when there is nothing left to learn what challenges remain.
— Matt Marlin
He wanted to start from the top while he knew nothing of the beginning and that was why he was always swimming at the bottom. He liked to think he was an entrepreneur and was even on Dragon’s Den with the silliest invention ever: a machine to scratch his back. Why don’t you just reach out, you lazy twit?
— Luella Christie, Nana Joop
Talent is only cream in your coffee. There is no reason to rest on your talent. If you don't present it, then it gets nowhere.
— Mies Van Der Rohe
Using the word chic while insulting someone doesn’t make it okay.
— Luella Christie, Nana Joop
A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.
— W.K. Marriott, The Prince
Those who believe everything they read probably should refrain from reading.
— Matt
Correct the blunders on your face made through self-delusion – this would be far more fitting than to want to teach me, which is just as if a sow trying to teach Minerva.
— Luella Christie, Nana Joop
Story should be a descent -- the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down.
— Chuck Wendig
Never let the story beat you home.
— Deondriea Cantrice, When Emotions Lie
Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.
— Brianna Wiest
People will come and go as they are scheduled to. Let them. Holding on does not affect them, only you.
— Brianna Wiest
Today may be your last chance to be you, someone you forgot to completely immerse yourself in because you were too worried about the details. The details that, no matter how many times you thought them through, brought you no closer to understanding. They just tied up your mind and prevented you from really letting in the things you love. Your demon that is standing before the beautiful floodgate and is keeping you in a dehydrated nothingness.Give him permission to walk away. He is not your keeper. You are his.
— Brianna Wiest
The key to finding happiness in this life is realizing that the only way to overcome is to transcend; to find happiness in the simple pleasures, to master the art of just being.
— Brianna Wiest
You will never find the perfect person but you might be lucky enough to find someone who wants to be.
— J.S.B. Morse, Now and at the Hour of Our Death
Holding on will not make something come back. In my experience, it actually pushes it farther away. You cannot go back and undo what’s done, my friends. You can only move forward. And if your deepest compulsions and instincts tell you that you’re meant to be with that person or doing that thing, you should let go and move forth and see how life takes you there. Clearly, things aren’t going according to your desired plan already, so why not throw caution to the wind and see where you end up.
— Brianna Wiest
Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live.
— Marty Rubin
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
— Steve Jobs
It’s not about getting over things, it’s about making room for them. It’s about painting the picture with contrast.
— Brianna Wiest
You will become who you are after you have been lost and recovered time and time again– you will turn up without pieces that needed to be shredded and with new discoveries that will give you a stepping stone to move forward on.
— Brianna Wiest
Everything that happens to you is meticulously planned and has great significance. You need to regain your faith in the fact that there is a greater plan at hand, always. This does not mean that your life will be free of pain or trial, it simply means that which you go through you will also leave with something greater than when you started. Look for what you should take, and let go of what it takes from you.
— Brianna Wiest
We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.
— Brianna Wiest
Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)
— Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches
I'll let you in on a secret ...How to avoid taking a wrong turn. I speak from experience. Don't blame the world around you. The world is very much larger ...than you realize. Large enough to embrace all of you.
— Yellow Tanabe
If you think someone is humble, never tell them so. You will unknowingly rob them of the very thing you admire.
— Christy  Hall, The Little Silkworm
Your mission isn't your guide. You have to find your own way.
— Yellow Tanabe, 結界師 34
Sometimes you have to walk out on a limb, knowing you could fall thirty feet to the hard ground, just to see if that apple on the edge is worth the risk like you think it is.”“And what if it’s not?”“Then you get up, dust yourself off, and keep walking til you find the next tree.
— Kandi Steiner, Tag Chaser
You should take a good look at all sides of an issue before making a decision. Put something away in case of an emergency. New neighbors will bring good cheer. A small problem may occur at home base, but you will solve it quickly and correctly. Don’t offer smart advice unless you are really asked to comment.
— Vikas Swarup
Advice is the easiest thing to give and often the hardest thing to receive. When you need it, and others are willing to give it, take as much as you can. When you receive it, appreciate it, use it, and apply what works for your situation….
— James A. Murphy, The Waves of Life Quotes and Daily Meditations
You know Quinn?" Macaulay asked me."Ten minutes ago I was putting him to bed."Macaulay grinned. "I hope you keep his acquaintance like that - social""Meaning what?"Macaulay's grin became rueful. "He used to be my broker, and his advice led me right up to the poorhouse steps.""That's sweet," I said. "he's my broker now and I'm following his advice." Macaulay and the girl laughed. I pretended I was laughing and returned to my table.
— Dashiell Hammett, The Thin Man
Life became more aligned when I started taking some of the advice I'd been dishing out to my friends.
— Paula Heller Garland
The least successful athletes, those who have never won any victories, suddenly call themselves trainers.
— J.C. McKeown, A Cabinet of Greek Curiosities: Strange Tales and Surprising Facts from the Cradle of Western Civilization
Don't I always tell you to never listen to me?
— Sean Kennedy, Tigerland
Be what you are.
— Henry P. Mahone
My final remark to young women and men going into experimental science is that they should pay little attention to the speculative physics ideas of my generation. After all, if my generation has any really good speculative ideas, we will be carrying these ideas out ourselves.
— Martin L. Perl, Reflections on Experimental Science
Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Let me give you a bit of advice.' the girl said bitterly, 'from one working girl to another; life isn't easy, no matter where you are. You'll make choices you think are right and then suffer for them.' Those remarkable eyes flickered. 'So if you're going to be miserable, you might as well go to Antica and be miserable in the shadow of the Torre Cesme.
— Sarah J. Maas, The Assassin and the Healer
Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable.
— Stephan Labossiere
Be careful who you call crazy. Some of us think it's a compliment.
— Marilynn Dawson, Mom's Little Black Book: Godly Advice for the High School Graduate
Don't go to the circus.
— Angie Sage, Flyte
Never refuse any who ask you for help; if your pockets are empty, give them hope. Your every action must be born of kindness, your every word spoken with love. Live as God would have you live, and others will be inspired to do the same.
— Immaculée Ilibagiza, Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World from the Heart of Africa
When you start something, make sure that you're willing to take the time to finish it right because, honey, the work you put into it will be more than worth it in the end. The best things always are.
— C.M. Stunich, Losing Me, Finding You
Don't let the belief that nobody will love you, keep you in a relationship where you aren't getting the love you need.
— Stephan Labossiere
Women who seek advice from single women about getting a man is like asking a homeless man how to be rich.
— Habeeb Akande
[What Rushdie took away from reading Gunter Grass's The Tin Drum]: Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be ruthless. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping like sand, through our fingers.
— Salman Rushdie
Ignoring your intuition telling you this person is not for you will likely lead to more time wasted and more disappointments along the way.
— Stephan Labossiere
In the end I chose the names I still liked after repeating then 100 times. It's a foolproof test. You repeat something 100 times and if you still like it it's because it's good. This doesn't just work for names, it works for anything, food or people.
— Juan Pablo Villalobos, Down the Rabbit Hole
To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
You say you've a life, but i see it as movie being directed by someone else, being edited often here and there. life is when you've the remote control of it, and its been controled by the person you love.
— Yaqub khan
Ellis,” he said. “You’re watchin’ a miracle right under your nose.” He gave a few of the seeds to Ellis and let him drop them into the hole he had already made. “In each of them little things, God put life. Now you take care with it, and you feed it with water and sunlight. And, most important of all of ’em, put it in good ground, and that life is gonna sprout right out.
— Tracy Winegar, Good Ground
Choose the things that matter to God. See things as He sees them. Whatever results, that is the best way.
— Jason M. Steffens, Never on Sundays: A Novel
Saepa stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint scripturas. (Turn the stylus [to erase] often if you would write something worthy of being reread.)
— Horace, The Satires of Horace
Go for your goal, be ambitious. Do what you dream, unlock your wishes.
— Aaron David
Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.
— David S.E. Zapanta, Posthumous
Just do it. Now.
— M. Yeats
If you dont speak, they will know you know more than you're telling them. And if they know that, they'll find a way to get what you know out of you. Believe me, they'll get everything out, Willie. Don't have any qualms about it -- make your story good and make it believable. Silence won't work!" This was an expert giving me the best advice she could. From that point on, I worked hard not to remember the people I loved, to try instead to create another life, a false life...I tried to become a person concerned only with very simple things -- and scared. I tried to become the woman I needed to be in order to live.
— Diet Eman, Things We Couldn't Say
The point is , if i'd known all this years earlier, maybe I would have put some thought into how I actually wanted to dress, look and behave because I would have understood that I didn't need to be constrained to playing the part of the platonic, misunderstood friend. Unlike Ryder, I wasn't actually cast in that part by anyone, other than myself.
— Hadley Freeman, Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies
It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.
— David Crosby
An old man's advice is not an opinion
— Nathanael Kanyinga
When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)
— Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle
Sometimes not much is just enough.
— John O'Callaghan
First we form habits, then they form us.
— Mark Matteson, Freedom from Fear
What's wrong with the world," Nana explained, "is that people stopped listening to their hearts...  "Not everybody stopped listening," she continued, "but enough people did to make a difference. We've go so much in this life that all we know how to do is want more. So we concentrate on the wrong things--things we can see--as being the measure of a person. We think if we can win something big or buy something snazzy it'll make us more than we are. Our hearts know that's not true, but the eyes are powerful. It's easier to fix on what we can see than listen to the still, small voice of a whispering heart." Nana turned her eyes on me like a vet looking for fleas: "A heart will say amazing things if it's given half a chance.
— Joan Bauer, Squashed
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living isn't complicated enough
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Remember, you are the same today as you will be in five years, except for two things: the people you meet and the books you read. Choose both carefully.
— Charlie "Tremendous" Jones
He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
If the music is amazing, you can get away with anything.
— Brian Logan Dales
Lesson learned: If a guy tells you you’re his second choice, don’t make him your first.
— Kate  Madison, Spilled Perfume: A Memoir
Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions.
— Mignon McLaughlin
Mom lies down next to me and we both stare at the ceiling in complete silence. “Boys are like candy,” she suddenly says. I grin. “Really, Mom? That’s your advice? Boys are like candy. What is that? Forrest Gump on teens?
— Rucy Ban
Wanna know the fastest way to unhappiness? Spend your time judging other people's reasons for happiness! That way, you'll quickly lose your own! The next time you look back at yourself (when you've taken a break from judging others) you'll think "Oh! Where did MY happiness go?" because you were too busy thinking that gay people shouldn't be happy... or, you know, something like that.
— C. JoyBell C.
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen to become aware-like Stravinsky- of a volcano within us, we will compensate by urging restraint. By that same token, someone who bore a glacier within them might urge passionate abandon. The danger is, as Bergman points out, that a glacial personality in need of passionate abandon may read Stravinsky and apply restraint instead.
— Walter Murch, In the Blink of an Eye
Good habits are hard to form and easy to live with. Bad habits are easy to form and hard to live with. Pay attention. Be aware . If we don't consciously form good ones, we will unconsciously form bad ones.
— Mark Matteson, Freedom from Fear
Sometimes life gets weird. Hang in there, it gets better.
— Tanner Patrick
Do you know your Bible?''Uh, not very well.''It merits study, it contains very practical advice for most emergencies.
— Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
It’s often mistaken for good advice, but wisdom cannot be imparted to someone. Wisdom can only be earned; it’s a by-product of experience, not necessarily knowledge, otherwise I would be stalking Oprah right now, begging for a transfusion.
— Renee Carlino
At last the gardener arrived, mumbling something about rascals and country bumpkins, and took me out into the park, giving me a lengthy lecture as he did so. I was instructed to be sober and industrious, and not to wander about aimlessly or waste my time in unproductive activities: if I heeded this counsel, he said, I might in time achieve something. He gave me much other useful and well-phrased advice too, but I have since forgotten almost all of it.
— Joseph von Eichendorff, Aus dem Leben eines Taugenichts
Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.
— Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless.
— Robert Dieffenbach
Never put off until tomorrow that which may be avoided entirely.
— Bill McKean
If you have a story to tell, put it out there. Get the thing done. No excuses. No procrastinating. No apologies. It will never be as good as you want it to be, so forget about perfection. Just be satisfied that you've done the best work you can do at this stage in your life as an author. Then roll the rocket onto the launch pad and fire it off. After that, write another story. Always keep going. Move fast. Stay one step ahead of the forces of distraction and self-doubt. Love your characters enough to give them a good home. Love your readers enough to give them a place of refuge from life's tragedies, big and small. And love the world you live in enough to make it the world of your dreams.
— James  Hampton
Opportunities happen when timing, connects, and personalities converge.
— Joel T. McGrath
No one is normal. Everyone is just pretending to be normal.
— Alessandra Torre, The Girl in 6E
To all the talented young men who wander about feeling that there is nothing in the world for them to do, I should say: 'Give up trying to write, and, instead, try not to write. Go out into the world; become a pirate, a king in Borneo, a labourer in Soviet Russia; give yourself an existence in which the satisfaction of elementary physical needs will occupy almost all your energies.' I do not recommend this course of action to everyone, but only to those who suffer from the disease which Mr Krutch diagnoses. I believe that, after some years of such an existence, the ex-intellectual will fin that in spite of is efforts he can no longer refrain from writing, and when this time comes his writing will not seem to him futile.
— Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
You cannot convince someone to see something that they do not want to see, no matter how much you know it would improve their lives. You have to love and accept them exactly as they are today. If you cannot do that, you have to let them go and find their own way, in their own time, if they ever choose to do so.Otherwise, you'll be giving them the power over your happiness, too.
— Doe Zantamata
Live an active life among people who are doing worthwhile things, keep eyes and ears and mind and heart open to absorb truth, and then tell of the things you know, as if you know them. The world will listen, for the world loves nothing so much as real life.
— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking
Advice is bullshit. It's just one asshole's opinion.
— Justin Halpern, I Suck at Girls
When I tell you not to marry without love, I do not advise you to marry for love alone - there are many, many other things to be considered.
— Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.''And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.''Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Ring Sets Out
My dear boy, looking like a thing has little to do with being a thing. Be the thing first, and you will grow to resemble it.
— Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights
BE CAREFUL, OR BE ROADKILL!
— Bill Watterson, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don't follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not.
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon
... I will say this. Marriage is work. It's hard work. Harder than anything else you'll ever do. Believe me, I know. And do you want to know why?' James nodded and Ben Latrobe leaned forward as if to impart a deep, mysterious secret. 'Because marriage isn't about the wedding or the wedding trip afterward. It isn't about cozy nights spent in each other's arms or the way she makes you feel when she smiles. Oh, those things all have a part in it, but a very minor one. No, James, marriage is about sticking it out when it isn't so nice. Marriage is being there to pick up the pieces when your perfect world falls apart. It's seeing the mess you've made of things and being willing to work through it until you have created something better than you had before. It's listening to her fears, her troubles, and concerns. It's eating meals that don't taste as good as those your mother fixed, enduring her temperamental outburts and tears, and not giving up when things get hard.' Latrobe paused for a moment and a frown lined his face where the smile had been only moments before. 'True love is standing by your mate when his health fails, along with his business.' ... 'It's knowing that the world goes on and you can depend on each other even when everything else around you lies in ruins at your feet...
— Judith Pella
Just bring your wits. Sometimes that's the most effective weapon any of us has.
— Jean Ferris, Thrice Upon a Marigold
Merrill Krause - "My brothers have scared off just about any fellow who showed interest in getting to know me."Granny Lassiter - "Well, if a man can't stand up to those brothers of yours, you needn't even consider him. A man ought to be able to hold his own with his wife's family.
— Tracie Peterson, The Icecutter's Daughter
Never offer unsolicited advice. The receiver might not know that you are smarter than him.
— C.J. Langenhoven
Merrill Krause - You mentioned God's will for me. How will I know what that is, Father?Bogart Krause - I've always believed it to start with prayer. The Good Book says that if a man wants wisdom, he just has to ask. I would imagine it works the same way for womenfolk. If you want to know what God's plan is -- then I would ask Him. Couldn't hurt to search the Scriptures, too. And listen to what He is telling you inside. Even when you don't think you're hearing anything, keep listening.
— Tracie Peterson
It doesn't matter who said it, as long as it changed you.
— Shannon L. Alder
Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.
— Tibor Fischer, Good To Be God
Your heart is who you are, all else follows. Guard your heart, Thomas. Guard your heart.
— Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights
When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.
— John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
I recalled my father-in-law's aphorism "To fool a judge, feign fascination, but to bamboozle the whole court, feign boredom..." & I pretended to extract a speck from my eye.
— David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
You can't always be by the people you love you have to let them live their own life.
— Brynlee
The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.
— John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
If you want to find inspiration Dare to fall, because the view down there is deep.
— Vanessa
Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo.
— John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
He looked like someone pretending to be a knight, which was bad. He figured pretending to be something he actually wanted to be was just asking for it.
— Liam Perrin, Sir Thomas the Hesitant and the Table of Less Valued Knights
Love for one another is built on the actions we take. Words that are said, are used for short comfort; but little do we know lies can be hidden in the riddle. Tread carefully through the puddle of roses for there, thorns await. 
— Ochir Napoleoni
Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.
— John-Talmage Mathis, For the (Soon) Unemployed: You Against Them
Want a reliable road to emotional and spiritual suicide? Spend your life trying to fit in.
— Brandon Mull
The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work.
— Steven Pressfield, The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks & Win Your Inner Creative Battles
For every evil under the sun,There is a remedy, or there is none.If there be one, try and find it;If there be none, never mind it.
— Mother Goose Rhymes, Mother Goose Rhy Color
For God's sake, have some self-respect and do not run off at the mouth if your brain is out to lunch.
— Anton Chekhov
Do notforget duty. But choose love when you can.
— Cinda Williams Chima, The Gray Wolf Throne
Don't settle for being an option
—  become a priority.
Do not be afraid. Look fear in the face and say, "fuck you" and move on.
— Annie Brewer, Choices
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?
— Ellen DeGeneres, The Funny Thing Is...
I have always hesitated to give advice, for how can one advise another how to act unless one knows that other as well as one knows himself? Heaven knows. I know little enough of myself: I know nothing of others. We can only guess at the thoughts and emotions of our neighbours. Each one of us is a prisoner in a solitary tower and he communicates with the other prisoners, who form mankind, by conventional signs that have not quite the same meaning for them as for himself.
— W. Somerset Maugham, The happy man stories
He who aims too high will get a sore neck
— Michelle Cohen Corasanti, The Almond Tree
It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Smile Anyway
If you're bored, you're boring.
— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage
It's when you stop planning every last detail that you discover the fun in life.
— Joanne Clancy, The Wedding Day
Sweetie,” Dino said, coming over to put his arm around her shoulder. He tipped her head up and looked into her eyes with great empathy. “You can’t fuck a statue. At least not at that angle. You’d at least have to tip it onto its back first, and as a conservator, I can’t recommend it.
— Rosanna Leo, For the Love of a God
Just be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give some people.
— Alain de Botton
Paying attention is more important to reliability than moving slowly. Because he pays close attention, a Navy pilot can land a 40,000 lb. aircraft at 140 miles per hour on a pitching carrier deck, at night, more safely than the average teenager can cut a bagel.
— Paul Graham, Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
If it was true that all effort led to a vast abyss, she had two recommendations to begin with, first, not to cheat people, and, second, to treat them properly. Beyond that, there was room for discussion.
— Roberto Bolaño, 2666
Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way.
— Joanne Clancy, The Wedding Day
Be focused in what you do and what you say. There is much noise in the world to detrack you.
— Moazzam Shaikh
Chong said, "Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual pe
— Jonathan Maberry
She's an old soldier's woman, and she has antennae for things that often escape the officer in the field.
— Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity
Often the best advice is not to seek advice.
— Habeeb Akande
Drama, can never outrun, outweigh, or outlast Dreams.Dreams, always has hope cheering it on.And Victory, is always waiting at the finish line.
— Keith Hammond
Fight for your life, it's the only one you've go
— T.A.Z
Dear Abby has had her day, now it's my turn!
— Barbara "Cutie" Cooper, Fall in Love for Life: Inspiration from a 73-Year Marriage
Again, keep everything.
— Nedra Reynolds, Portfolio Keeping: A Guide for Students
...write your own part. It is the only way I've gotten anywhere. It is much harder work, but sometimes you have to take destiny into your own hands. It forces you to think about what your strengths really are, and once you find them, you can showcase them, and no one can stop you.
— Mindy Kaling, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them.
— C. JoyBell C.
Save your world. Love it. Protect it, and respect it and don't let haters represent it. Don't leave the saving to anyone else, ever, because, exhibit A - why, hello there - it's way too much for one person. And if you want to skip out on the responsibility train, my whole life - and death - will have been in vain.It's yours. It's all yours for taking!You're not going to waste it now, are you?
— James Patterson
No kid in the world, no woman in the world should ever raise a hand against a no-good daddy. That's already been taken care of: A Man Who Destroys His Own Home Shall Inherit the Wind.
— Dick Gregory
Teamwork is the secret that make common people achieve uncommon result.
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.
— Tyler Perry
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
— Ben Jonson
What I have learned in this life is you can never be ashamed of where you come from.
— Tyler Perry
Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12)
— Teacher David McCullough
The best revenge is living well, my dad told me once.
— Barry Lyga, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl
At least three times every day take a moment and ask yourself what is really important. Have the wisdom and the courage to build your life around your answer.
— Lee Jampolsky
He turned to Edwin. "You know, the stuff you just told me makes more sense than all the weird things the counselors and psychologist have told me in school and at the detention center."Edwin tapped Cole's shoulder with the broken stick. "That's because those people still think you can get rid of the left end of the stick.
— Ben Mikaelsen, Touching Spirit Bear
Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.
— Idries Shah, Reflections
You never finish writing a novel, you eventually abandon it.
— Tom Winton
Wait, that’s your idea? That’s your expert advice? You’re going to tell these novelists to just keep going? You’re going to tell these honest, earnest writers: You gotta have faith? Those are George Michael lyrics, asshole. If they wanted that pep talk, they could just hang out inside a mall elevator.
— Karen Russell
...[W]hen I told my dad why I was calling, he just said, 'Honey, you're so beautiful it doesn't matter what you wear.' I wondered how many dads in America were, at that very moment, giving their daughters the same useless advice mine was giving me.
— Melissa Kantor, The Breakup Bible
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. (…)A good novel editor is invisible.
— Terri Windling
The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's great unpublished novelists. Over the years she's written forty-two romantic novels, none of which have ever reached the bookstores. I, however, have been fortunate enough to hear the plots of the last twenty-seven of these recounted in installments by the authoress herself every time I drop by the store for a jar of coffee or can of beans, and my respect for Denise's literary prowess knows no bounds. So, naturally enough, when I found myself faced with the daunting task of actually starting the book you now hold in your hands, it was Denise I turned to for advice.
— Dave Gibbons, Watchmen
Don't let anyone take your power by influencing what you do.... sure ask for advice when you are still deciding, but once you are sure what you want to go for, don't let anyone deflect you. It is YOUR choice to make and to follow through.
— Jay Woodman
...avoid – like the measles – phony laughter. No, really. If you don’t find it to be funny, don't laugh. More evil and injustice has gotten a foothold in this world because of polite, counterfeit laughter – a desire to not “offend”, or to not be “peculiar” - than anything else.But when you do laugh, let your belly shimmy.
— Jenna Brooks
Above all, do not attempt to be exhaustive.
— Roland Barthes
At their core, Tiger Eyes, Forever..., and Sally J. Freeman are all books about teenage issues, but to an adult reader, the parents' story lines seem to almost overshadow their daughters. I'm bringing an entirely new set of experiences to these novels now, and my reward is a fresh set of story lines that i missed the first time around. I'm sure that in twenty or thirty years I'll read these books again and completely identify with all the grandparent characteristics. That's the wonderful thing about Judy Blume - you can revisit her stories at any stage in life and find a character who strikes a deep chord of recognition. I've been there, I'm in the middle of this, someday that'll be me. The same characters, yet somehow completely different. (Beth Kendrick)
— Jennifer O'Connell, Everything I Needed to Know about Being a Girl I Learned from Judy Blume
There are worse things than being robbed..." I could smell the sick old-meat stench on his breath, like he really had eaten my grandmother. "...worse things than dyin' even. You be a good boy, Little Red, and maybe you'll get to live awhile. Maybe you'll get to die in your own natural time.
— Neal Shusterman, Red Rider's Hood
I have many dead people who talk to me, whisper advice into my ears in the finest of moments. I take their advice in the moments where life shouldn't allow you to make your own business. This is one of those moments. The dead whisperer, Eleanor Roosevelt. The advice, "Do one thing every day that scares you." Here goes!
— Cyndi Goodgame
You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become a hunger.
— Kristen Ashley, The Golden Dynasty
You can't love someone just by looking at them. That is lust. Not saying love can't come fast, but it doesn't come first.
— Teresa Mummert
If you don't mind a word of advice, one never asks a lady to set her own price. If you have to ask, the answer will always be more than you can afford.
— Eloisa James, A Kiss at Midnight
Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.
— Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
— Winston  Churchill
Here is how you know if it is love or lust. Push them in front of a bus. If you jump in the way and save them it is love.
— Teresa Mummert
Love comes from the heart, lust comes ...lower
— Teresa Mummert
Lust is the difference between loving someone and being in love with someone.
— Teresa Mummert
Don't waste inspiration
— Salman Khan
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
— Basil Bunting
Stop and reflect on what your diet is doing for you.
— Alice McCall, Wellness Wisdom - Inspired by One Woman's Journey with Breast Cancer
You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of.
— Cory Doctorow, Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
Nixon to Clinton: "When seeking advice from people who are more experienced than you, tell them what you plan to do first, and then ask for their reaction. Don't ask for their advice, and then ignore it. That way you save on bruised feelings.
— Nancy Gibbs, The Presidents Club: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Fraternity
The fulfilling life, the distinctive life, the relevant life is an achievement. To do whatever you do for no reason other than you love it and believe in its importance.
— David McCullough Jr.
Though our castes and institutions are apparently linked with our religion, they are not so. These institutions have been necessary to protect us as a nation, and when this necessity for self-preservation will no more exist, they will die a natural death. But the older I grow, the better I seem to think of these time-honored institutions of India. There was a time when I used to think that many of them were useless and worthless; but the older I grew, the more I seem to feel a diffidence in cursing any one of them, for each one of them is the embodiment of the experience of centuries. A child of but yesterday, destined to die the day after tomorrow, comes to me and asks me to change all my plans; and if I hear the advice of that baby and change all my surroundings according to his ideas, I myself should be a fool, and no one else. Much of the advice that is coming to us from different countries is similar to this. Tell these wiseacres: "I will hear you when you have made a society yourselves. You cannot hold on to one idea for two days, you quarrel and fail; you are born like moths in the spring and die like them in five minutes. You come up like bubbles and burst like bubbles too. First form a stable society like ours. First make laws and institutions that remain undiminished in their power through scores of centuries. Then will be the time to talk on the subject with you, but till then, my friend, you are only a giddy child.
— Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda: v. 3