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Perhaps you should put your head down.” I knew this was the thing to do, although I’ve never fainted and I don’t intend to.
— Franny Billingsley, Chime
Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
— Tim Cowlishaw, Drunk on Sports
The only way to get smarter is by playing a smarter opponent.
— Fundamentals of Chess 1883
Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children." -Diana
— Kate Petrella, Royal Wisdom: The Most Daft, Cheeky, and Brilliant Quotes from Britain's Royal Family
No one knows, at sight a masterpiece.And give up verse, my boy,There's nothing in it.Likewise a friend of Bloughram's once advised me:Don't kick against the pricks,Accept opinion. The Nineties tried your gameAnd died, there's nothing in it.
— Ezra Pound, Selected Poems of Ezra Pound
The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.
— Basil Wolverton, The Culture Corner
A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates,Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.
— E.E. Knight, Dragon Champion
Formerly...when he tried to do anything for the good of everybody, for humanity...for the whole village, he had noticed that the thoughts of it were agreeable, but the activity itself was always unsatisfactory; there was no full assurance that the work was really necessary, and the activity itself, which at first seemed so great, ever lessened and lessened till it vanished. But now...when he began to confine himself more and more to living for himself, though he no longer felt any joy at the thought of his activity, he felt confident that his work was necessary, saw that it progressed far better than formerly, and that it was always growing more and more.
— Leo Tolstoy
Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can.
— Louisa May Alcott
The malpractice for advice-giving is like five times as much as a craniotomy.
— Nicole Krauss, Man Walks Into a Room
A living being either creates or destroys...some choice.
— Mike Redican
I feel obligated to tell you that adventures are, on a whole, stunningly bad ideas, best avoided at all costs.
— Michael McClung, The Thief Who Pulled on Trouble's Braids
It's always better to attack than to defend," Coram had told her when they talked about fencing late at night. "Always. Ye don't win with defense--ye only hold the other feller off, or wear him down. Attack and have done with it!
— Tamora Pierce, Alanna: The First Adventure
If you have to hit--hit low.
— Tamora Pierce
Her father sat her down and spoke to her with great seriousness. "You are not a witch, Katerina. There is magic in the world, and some of it is wholesome, and some of it is not, but it is a thing that is in the blood, and it is not in yours."The foolish will always treat you badly, because they think you are not beautiful," he said, and she knew this was true. Plain Kate. She was a plain as a stick and thin as a stick and flat as a stick. Her nose was too long and her brows too strong. Her father kissed her twice, once above each brow. "We cannot help what fools think. But understand, it is your skill with a blade that draws this talk. If you want to give up your carving, you have my blessing.""I will never give it up," she answered.
— Erin Bow, Plain Kate
Advice is a form of Nostalgia
— Mary Schmich, Wear Sunscreen: A Primer for Real Life
Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.
— John  Adams
If you forget your lines, you had better mumble with conviction.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
If things are really overwhelming and you need to talk, you can give me a call at 347-273-2044.
— Eugene Mirman, The Will to Whatevs: A Guide to Modern Life
The urge to move is natural and understandable. As will be the case throughout your life, no matter how long or brief, the choice is, in the end, yours. Simply bear in mind that most every choice will have consequences, and in this instance those consequences would likely be quite grave.
— Ron Currie Jr., Everything Matters!
The lower your decolletage, the less the need for conversation.
— Connie Brockway, The Bridal Season
If you enjoy sticking a straw in a dog's ear, don't sit next to the pooch with a milkshake.
— Alan Rogers, Lyam's Journal
Light tomorrow with today.
— George Barnard Moore, Gertrude Stein's The Making of Americans: Repetition and the Emergence of Modernism
There's an ad for every vice. That's advice.
— Brian Spellman, If the mind fits, shrink it
I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.
— William Faulkner, Light in August
Mark it, nuncle.Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest,Ride more than thou goest,Learn more than thou trowest,Set less than thou throwest,Leave thy drink and thy whoreAnd keep in-a-door,And thou shalt have moreThan two tens to a score.
— William Shakespeare, King Lear
What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If you stay connected to an insane world, well, you just go crazy. This is not a complicated theory. It's just simple logic.
— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Last Night I Sang to the Monster
A word of advice, my sweet Emmett - mourn the losses because they are many. But celebrate the victories because they are few.
— Debbie Novotny
Whenever a person says to you that they are as innocent as lambs in all concerning money, look well after your own money, for they are dead certain to collar it, if they can. Whenever a person proclaims to you 'In worldly matters I'm a child,' you consider that that person is only a crying off from being held accountable, and that you have got that person's number, and it's Number One. Now, I am not a poetical man myself, except in a vocal way, when it goes round a company, but I'm a practical one, and that's my experience. So's this rule. Fast and loose in one thing, Fast and loose in everything. I never knew it fail. No more will you. Nor no one.
— Charles Dickens, Bleak House
This is the most beautiful piece of advice I can offer. I you don't have what you want now, you don't have what you want.
— Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting
Sometimes rising above is the only way to stop the hate from spreading. It's not what anyone expects, and it does make them stop and think.
— Madelyn Alt, Where There's a Witch
But if you will not take this Counsel, and persist in thinking a Commerce with the Sex inevitable, then I repeat my former Advice, that in all your Amours you should prefer old Women to young ones. You call this a Paradox, and demand my Reasons. They are these:1. Because as they have more Knowledge of the World and their Minds are better stor'd with Observations, their Conversation is more improving and more lastingly agreable.2. Because when Women cease to be handsome, they study to be good. To maintain their Influence over Men, they supply the Diminution of Beauty by an Augmentation of Utility. They learn to do a 1000 Services small and great, and are the most tender and useful of all Friends when you are sick. Thus they continue amiable. And hence there is hardly such a thing to be found as an old Woman who is not a good Woman.3. Because there is no hazard of Children, which irregularly produc'd may be attended with much Inconvenience.4. Because thro' more Experience, they are more prudent and discreet in conducting an Intrigue to prevent Suspicion. The Commerce with them is therefore safer with regard to your Reputation. And with regard to theirs, if the Affair should happen to be known, considerate People might be rather inclin'd to excuse an old Woman who would kindly take care of a young Man, form his Manners by her good Counsels, and prevent his ruining his Health and Fortune among mercenary Prostitutes.5. Because in every Animal that walks upright, the Deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding2 only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.6. Because the Sin is less. The debauching a Virgin may be her Ruin, and make her for Life unhappy.7. Because the Compunction is less. The having made a young Girl miserable may give you frequent bitter Reflections; none of which can attend the making an old Woman happy.8thly and Lastly They are so grateful!!Thus much for my Paradox. But still I advise you to marry directly; being sincerely Your affectionate Friend.
— Benjamin Franklin
IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.
— Philip Van Munching, Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt): A Dad's Advice for Daughters
You must read to lead. Reading feeds. It opens our souls to a long line of counselors.
— Dave Harvey, Am I Called?: The Summons to Pastoral Ministry
Adventure, my dear, is as much a state of mind as anything else. One can travel the world and never find the excitement to be found within arm's reach.Remain true to yourself, but understand happiness may not always be found in the plans we have laid out for ourselves, but rather in the unforeseen turns life takes us. Do not close your mind, or your heart, to the unexpected twists of life. It is those unexpected paths that could well lead to the greatest adventures of all.
— Victoria Alexander, The Marriage Lesson
...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.
— M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver.
— Frank Bidart, Star Dust
I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.
— George Gissing
Too often, people think that solving the world's problems is based on conquering the Earth, rather than touching the Earth, touching ground.
— Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
My advice to you is to dance while you still can.
— Marty Rubin
The boiling water that does not cool down only dries out!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Only with calmness can you control your emotions.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Unsolicited advice is the junk mail of life.
— Bern Williams
From then on, I was terrified that I or one of my parents were going to die. My mother worried me the most. She was the force around which our world turned. Unlike our father, who spent his life in the clouds, my mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She was the judge in all of our arguments. One disapproving word from her was enough to send us off to hide in a corner, where we would cry and fantasize our own martyrdrom. And yet. One kiss could restore us to princedom. Without her, our lives would dissolve into chaos.
— Nicole Krauss, The History of Love
I have found food general guidelines are: be polite, be pleasant, be brief. When even that is too much to manage, pick a quiet corner and look at everyone like they are the greatest of disappointments. Obey royalty, be respectful to those above you, ignore or indulge those below you, and always be generous to staff and tradesmen. One loyal servant is worth then kings.
— Megan Derr, The Painted Crown
Never be content with your work, your relationships, your life. That's the stupid advice philosophers give today.
— Marty Rubin
Everyone I meet wants to give me directions, but I'm not lost.
— Marty Rubin
Don't knock homespun. All comfort food is homespun, and according to you and my cooking magazines, comfort food is the trend. You do what you do, do it as best you can, and if you don't win, at least you know you didn't compromise who you are in an effort to please someone else.
— Stacey Ballis, Wedding Girl
Be careful who's advice you heed to! It is better to listen to your heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Re-examine what you have been told. And reject any ruinous advice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Beware of the danger of darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
the thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
...we ought not meanwhile to make use of doubt in the conduct of life.
— René Descartes, Principles of Philosophy
Okay, fuck the sundial. We'll just go straight and eventually we'll get there. What I mean is that we'll get somewhere. Out of here. I mean, logically, we have to get out as long as we walk straight. I've done this millions of times. Whenever everything's killing me, I just say to myself, screw it, and go straight ahead.
— Susan Orlean, The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession
Lord Henry smiled. "He gives you good advice, I suppose. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
It’s maybe impossible to escape (your own head), but I guess the secret is the prison cell just gets bigger and bigger and bigger and prettier and prettier and prettier.
— David Lynch
Be nice, but not too fucking nice.
— Kristen Lepionka, The Last Place You Look
Now who is wrong and who is right about the dating advice?
— Deyth Banger, Diary 1
I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.
— Leigh Bardugo
To help someone, is to understand them
— Valerio K. Riley, From a Problem Child to Another: And for our Shepherd's
Your gift is your grace.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Everything is a choice and every choice has a consequence; a good one or bad one! We choose to choose every day, whether we choose not to choose, but it is not all our choices that result in something better! It is not all our choices that result in something lasting! It is not all our choices that result in something fulfilling. No matter what our daily conscious and unconscious choices result in, the lessons from the results of our choices that can help shape our next choices must never be neglected, for they that shall neglect the lessons from the consequences of their choices shall always choose and choose again and again, and in the end, they shall never see any lasting and fulfilling footprints!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He that will write well in any tongue, must follow this counsel of Aristotle, to speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do: and so should every man understand him, and the judgment of wise men allow him.
— Roger Ascham
The lessons my parents taught are still with me. I keep a tighter leash when raising my kids than my parents did, but I often find myself doing or saying the same things they did. My mom, for instance, was always cheerful when coming in from work; I try to behave the same way when I finish writing for the day. My dad would listen intently when I came to him with a problem, to help me find a way to solve it on my own; I try to do the same with my own kids. At night, while I'm tucking my kids in bed, I ask them to tell me three nice things that each of their siblings did for them that day, in the hopes that it will help them grow as close as Micah, Dana, and I did. And more frequently than I ever would have imagined possible growing up, I find myself telling my children "It's your life", or "No one ever promised that life would be fair", and "What you want and what you get are usually two entirely different things".
— Nicholas Sparks, Three Weeks With My Brother
Take my advice: live your life to the fullest. Breathe the air, taste the wine, kiss the girls, and always remember that the tales of another are never as wondrous as your own.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Rise of Empire
Treasure the moments, her heart whispered. If you don't learn to treasure the moments, you'll never be able to treasure the memories.
— Janette Oke, Like Gold Refined
Fine gold is recognized when it is tested.
— Leonardo da Vinci
There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.
— Louis L'Amour, Lonely on the Mountain
When one is in love one thinks only of one.
— Will Advise
No counsel is more sincere than that given on ships which are in danger.
— Leonardo da Vinci, Thoughts on Art and Life
Find someone who loves you more than you love them.
— Hannah Lillith Assadi, Sonora
You want some advice?""Yes""Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
— Michael Robotham, Lost
But, I've learned, as we all must, that adults are jerks too. At least some of them. And that's why I feel so strongly that if you have the opportunity to surround yourself with people who aren't jerks, you should not just take it, but grab it, seize it, squeeze the living hell out of it.
— Clinton Kelly, I Hate Everyone, Except You
Arista," the wizard said, "sharks don't eat seafood because they like it, but because chickens don't swim. We all do the best we can with the tools we have, but at some point you have to ask yourself where the tools came from.
— Michael J. Sullivan, Theft of Swords
Fate has given you a chance of stepping out of your comfort zone. Take the trip. (Aunt Eve talking to Febronia)
— Clotilde Martinez, Moura Enchanted
There will be two ships sailing, but you'll be on the Resolution, with Cook himself. Never put yourself in his way. Never speak to him. And if you do speak to him, which you must never do, certainly do to speak to him in the manner in which you have sometimes spoken to me. He will not find it as diverting as I do.
— Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.
— Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Cereal is Wheat
— Ash  Bunsee
If you're in the middle of a monumental and devastating life crisis, hang in there. It'll be over in about an hour. Two hours, tops.
— Anthony Rubino Jr., Life Lessons from Melrose Place
You can't have a decent party for the survivors of a deadly blast without inviting the person who detonated the explosion.
— Anthony Rubino Jr., Life Lessons from Melrose Place
Some people are hard to forget, but some people are hard to remember.
— Phil Volatile, Crushed Black Velvet
It's easy to offer advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Giving advice is like seeing an elephant in someone’s path and suggesting they remove it. Heeding advice requires forcing the elephant to budge. Huge difference.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
Why is it that we don’t worry about a compass until we’re lost in a wilderness of our own making?
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hungry people need food, definitely not an advice!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Never ask another person's advice about anything God makes you decide before Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Rolando pursed his lips and sighed. “Just be careful.” “Why, because her father carries a gun?” Isaac said. “Aren’t you the one who always said guns don’t shoot people?”“No, it was you who said that.” Rolando corrected his son. “I’ve said fathers with guns and beautiful daughters shoot people. Boys in particular.” “You worry too much, dad.” “One day, when you are a father, you will understand.
— Felix Alexander, The Last Valentine
When people ask for advice they very rarely want your advice and will go ahead and do what they want to do anyway, no matter what you say. That applied in every sort of case; it was a human truth of universal application, but one which most people knew little or nothing about.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Full Cupboard of Life
A good life is the result of a thousand small choices and so is a bad one.
— Karina Bliss, Rise
Best to introduce yourself to patience now, so that it might find you when you call upon it later.
— Tahereh Mafi, Furthermore
Cautious silence is the refuge of good sense
— Baltasar Gracián, How to Use Your Enemies
You always apologize for things you don't know. You should stop.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
Before you get in trouble, it pays to ask yourself how you'll get out again.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
Holding a grudge is a fatal flaw.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.
— Peter Straub
Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from.
— Adam Kirk Smith
You see, people are everywhere. They are everything. No matter who we are, or what we do, people are involved in our lives. If those people are poisonous, our lives will be poisonous also.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
Darlin'," he drawled, "go when you are invited. Bring good boots, drive slow, take blankets, carry your own salt, but by all means... go where the light is.That's not bad advice, wherever you live. Darlin'.
— Ellen Stimson, Mud Season: How One Woman's Dream of Moving to Vermont, Raising Children, Chickens and Sheep, and Running the Old Country Store Pretty Much Led to One Calamity After Another
If you agree that the person you were few years ago will take advice from the person you are now, you have made a clear progress in life.
— Dhaval Gajera, MAKE IT HAPPEN: with 30 greatest life lessons
Don't you think you ought to at least think about getting yourself to your ultimate? Because, trust me, nobody else is going to get you there.
— Claudia Gray, A Thousand Pieces of You
Look. I don't expect you to spill your guts to me. Your business is your business. Dress how you want to dress. Let people wonder. Fuck 'em."I smile.Solo raised a finger. "But you've got to stop looking for a fight every time someone makes a comment. High school sucks for everyone."I feel my smile fade, and I sit back in the chair. "It kind of feels like you're defending those guys."Solo shrugs. "There will always be guys like Jim Vickers. But I'm not going to let them stop me from doing what I want. And neither should you.
— Jeff Garvin, Symptoms of Being Human
You'll do well, Percy. Just remember your strengths and beware your weaknesses.
— Rick Riordan, The Last Olympian
The perceiving our own weaknesses enables us to give others excellent advice, but it does not teach us to to reform ourselves.
— William Hazlitt, Plain Speaker
What is the date? What is the time? … Great, that’s what Now is. And every second, your ‘Now’ changes. Because all we have is Now. We are continuously living in the Now. Not yesterday, not tomorrow, but Now. Today. The present. And I need you to live in it. To truly appreciate it. To breathe and feel yourself breathing.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
Time passes no matter what you do.
— S.R. Crawford, From My Suffering: 25 Ways to Break the Chains of Anxiety, Depression & Stress
Love yourself! You don’t need a man or a boy or a self-proclaimed love expert to tell you what you’re worth. Your power comes from who you are and what you do! You don't need all that noise, that constant hum in the background telling you whether or not you're good enough. All you need is you, your friends, and your family. And you will find the right person for you, if that's what you want - the one who respects your strength and beauty.
— Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo
You won't find someone who treats you as you should be treated until you start to believe you are worth the ones you want, the ones who aren't asking you to do any work. Find the man who appreciates you at your best, not one who confirms your worst suspicions about yourself.
— Mhairi McFarlane, Who’s That Girl?
Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them.
— Inio Asano, Solanin
The life that you are about to embrace is not that of a soldier or a commando. It is the way of the assassin.
— Shatrujeet Nath, The Karachi Deception
I wonderif I should let my hair go greyso my advice will be better.
— Margaret Atwood, Morning in the Burned House
The requirement for advice being received well is that you’ve produced results with your life. Results are what matters!
— Adam Kirk Smith
Live for life.
— Ryker Banister
The desire to love someone always exceeds the desire to be loved by someone & that's exactly why we end up loving the person who doesn't deserve that LOVE. That is why never get into any kind of relationship with a married person because soon you will realize that you were just another episode in their life.
— KakkZ
What I am recommending to the unmarried person, therefore, comes straight out of the Word: Stay out of bed unless you there alone! I know that advice is difficult to put into practice today. But I didn't make the rules. I'm just passing them along. God's moral laws are not designed to oppress us or deprive us of pleasure. They are there to protect us from the devastation of sin, including disease, heartache, divorce, and spiritual death. Abstinence before marriage and fidelity afterward is the Creator's own plan, and no one has devised a way to improve on it.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: A Young Adult's Guide to a Meaningful Future
A child who grows up too closely aligned with adults assumes knowledge of a life she hasn’t yet experienced.
— Suzanne Haynes, Loretta Nyhan
You can make your room such a delightful place that they will want to come to you...she is always on hand. Everybody who wants her knows just where to go. If people love her, she gets naturally to be the heart of the house. Once make the little ones feel that your room is the place of all the others to come to when they are tired, or happy, or grieved, or sorry about anything and that the Katy who lives there is sure to give them a loving reception and the battle is won. For you know we never do people good by lecturing.
— Susan Coolidge, What Katy Did
You know how I say, ‘Don’t ask anyone how to get somewhere unless they have been there?’ Well, I have been there – I have written, been published, found success, and experienced self-doubt, frustration, anger and disappointment along the way … But you know what? I have not been to the place you’re going to. This is your journey. Your destination. Disregard everything in this book. Or embrace it. Better yet: cherry pick. It’s your life.
— Catherine Deveny, Use Your Words: A Myth-Busting, No-Fear Approach to Writing
If you know you're going to lose something so bad, let it go with your own hand.
— Amir Sheykhi
to always staying on top of the tables, you have to act like a champion.
— Amir Sheykhi
...use design as a secret disguise to infiltrate whatever world you want to go into. If you do that over and over again, and then translate that interest and curiosity into the work that you’re doing, you’ll do great.
— Michael Bierut
Some things have a natural way of solving themselves. Sometimes you just have to let it go and observe it get solved.
— Jackson Taviri
The advices you tell your friends were from you're own experiences, and are actually what you need to apply to yourself.
— Jyca Therese Lauron Livelo
We are all weak most of the time,' she said finally. 'Look at the baby. Born to his mother, he learns how to eat from her, how to walk, talk, hunt, run. He does not invent new ways. He just continues with the old. This is how we all come to the world, James. Weak and needy, desperate to learn how to be a person.' She smiled at him. 'But if we do not like the person we have learned to be, should we just sit in front of our fufu, doing nothing? I think, James, that maybe it is possible to make a new way.
— Yaa Gyasi, Homegoing
He's an irrelevant person. Learn to spot irrelevant people. Don't expect someone who doesn't know who they are to care who you are.
— Mhairi McFarlane, Who’s That Girl?
Just be you. That's the best advice I can give. There are seven billion people in this world and there is no one like you.
— Ed Sheeran, Ed Sheeran: A Visual Journey
The funny thingaboutadvice is,we always tellothersthe thingswecannotreally doourselves.
— Robert M. Drake
The truth is that writing is simply not reliable. You can't count on it to be there just because you've made some space for it. In fact, making space might make it disappear. You tell yourself you can't write in the middle of your daily life, with all its distractions and commitments, and when you finally clear the decks, light off for someplace scenic or at least private, you sit there completely paralyzed. You have devoted yourself to writing, but it has not returned your devotion. If writing were a person, you would be in an abusive relationship. The healthy thing to do would be to get a restraining order and shut it right out of your heart.
— Kim Addonizio, Bukowski in a Sundress: Confessions from a Writing Life
Do not afraid of your previous mistakes, try to fix them.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih, The Revealed Sense
Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
— Stephen R. Covey, First Things First
You gotta look out for number one, but don't step in number two!
— Rodney Dangerfield
... good advice was sometimes easier to give than receive.
— Stephen King, Misery
The advice that I have valued in my own life has never turned on fixed maxims or canned metaphors. More crucially, lists of precepts don't work like targeted advice because lists contain inherently constraining messages. They seem to say that complex matters are knowable, that a given process leads to foreseeable results. It implies a thin and predictable world, whereas the sort of advice that has mattered to me bespeaks a quite tentative optimism, the optimism of the quest whose outcome is finally unknowable.
— Peter D. Kramer, Should You Leave?: A Psychiatrist Explores Intimacy and Autonomy--and the Nature of Advice
I advise all people that have had an interaction with the police to obtain a copy of the police report, as you may find a very different story in there to what actually occurred.
— Steven Magee
People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.
— Steven Magee
A Speechmaker's Prayer: "Let each word of mine be tender and sweet, Just in case someone might make me eat it.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Hold everything very carefully unless it is your lover’s back. Then, become metal, become teeth, do not gentle yourself for any man. Do not change for the ones who think thatyou should be softer, less mouth, less voice. You do not owe regrowth to anyone but yourself. When they begin to ask for you to shape yourself around them, leave. Shut the door firmly. Do not look back.
— Azra Tabassum, Shaking the Trees
No Son [. . .] Not a traitor to your country. Much worse. A traitor to your soul.
— Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
Honest but gentle communication from the beginning is key.
— Cheryl Barker, Mother of the Bride: Refreshment and Wisdom for the Mother of the Bride
I used to hammer away at the idea of simplicity.In both fiction and non-fiction, there's only one question and one answer. 'What happened?' the reader asks. 'This is what happened,' the writer responds. 'This...and this...and this, too.' Keep it simple. It's the only sure way home.
— Stephen King, 11/22/63
You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God.
— Shannon L. Alder
Just realize that the Mechanics do not exist and are not worthy of your attention. Unless they threaten you, and then you must kill them, Mage Alain. Mechanics are as merciless as they are mercenary. If any appear dangerous, kill them. ...What if he had remembered that advice during the bandit attack, when the Mechanic had pointed her weapon at his face? He could have killed her then. He could have tried at least. Then, when she was dead, the bandits would have found Alain and killed him, too. Clearly the advice of his elders was lacking in some respects.
— Jack Campbell, The Dragons of Dorcastle
Listen to the advice of someone about to die. Do it while you are still young.
— Glen McDiarmid
You absolutely will never get everything you hope for. You imperatively HAVE to make the best of what you have. But something that you MUST have and cannot ever ignore is your relationship with people. Always work on that. Understand it as you live. Although people should never complete you as a person, you must have them in your life. That doesn't mean forever, it just means you need people and people need you NO MATTER WHAT.
— Diana Jaber
The is no better example for our children,then the one we set before them every day
— Davin Whitehurst
I live in vice. I eat twice - with a advice.
— Deyth Banger
Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.
— irene fantopoulos
Take the risk, and just be.
— Dean Del Sesto, Shift Your Thinking: 200 Ways to Improve Your Life
Do not be bad because others treat you badly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You should choose your battles if you can, but if the battle chooses you then kick the sod in his fuse box!
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!
— Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
You're a superhero. Deal with it.
— Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B
Some general advice about writing:WRITE MORE, DO OTHER STUFF LESS.
— Brian K. Vaughan
Find the gold in every moment.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
During my mental illness, thank God, my grandma was my human rescuer and angel, she ask me to stop taking the medication, leading to the recovering.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It feels good read but greater to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
he citizens must begin to work to clean the city and country of any dirt.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It's your mind you have to train, like your mom said that one time, you have to separate yourself from all the crap, get down to the core, focus.
— Cynthia Hand, Unearthly
But hear thee, Gratiano:Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice - Parts that become thee happily enough,And in such eyes as ours appear no faults,But where thou art not known, why, there they show Something too liberal.
— William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.
— James C. Dobson
Advice is autobiography.
— J.R. Rim
Your advice seems a little ironical.""Oh, you may either follow it or reverse it—that is its chief beauty. It is equally good taken either way.
— Thomas Henry Lister
Ignorance is a deep darkness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
What people decide to do is their lot.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I respect the opinions of others.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
In any situation, you only need the strength of endurance.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Rain clouds and stormy moods take time to blow away, but sooner or later the sun always comes out.
— Shirley Parenteau, Ship of Dolls
The opinions of souls are their state of being. Dwell on your own sacred thoughts.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Begin to write.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...once students have been taught that learning is tedious, difficult, and useless, they will never learn another lesson.
— Robin Hobb, Fool's Assassin
Hate in your heart will consume you.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nobody knows what God's plan is for your life, but a whole lot of people will guess for you if you let them.
— Shannon L. Alder
In Buddhism we would say that you are lazy... Despising yourself, thinking you are no good, saying 'I can't do this.' This is the mind of weakness. You must work to overcome it .
— David Michie, The Dalai Lama's Cat
. . . [E]very single writer I met likened writing for television to one thing--laying track for an incoming speeding train. The story is the track and you gotta keep laying it down because of the train. That train is production. You keep writing, you keep laying track down, no matter what, because the train of production is coming toward you--no matter what. Every eight days, the crew needs to being to prepare a new episode--find locations, build sets, design costumes, find props, plan shots. And every eight days after that, the crew needs to film a new episode. Every eight days. Eight days to prep. Eight days to shoot. Eight days, eight days, eight days, eight days. Which means every eight days, that crew needs a brand-new script. And my job is to damn well provide them with one. Every. Eight. Days. That train of production is a'coming. Every eight days that crew on that soundstage better have something to shoot. Because the worst thing you can do is halt or derail production and cost the studio hundreds of thousands of dollars while everyone waits. That is how you go from being a TV writer to being a failed TV writer.
— Shonda Rhimes, Year of Yes: How to Dance It Out, Stand In the Sun and Be Your Own Person
Life was full of so many possibilities - why should you spend even one day of it being bored?
— Mia Sheridan, Grayson's Vow
The two greatest warriors are Truth and Time. Be sure to march behind, and not against, them.
— Neel Burton
It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine
Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.
— Julion Okram
Great mentors give great advice.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Female is female.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Woman is woman.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Nevertheless, I sought counsel from my leaders and obeyed, even when I knew their advice would make my life more complicated. I decided it was not for me to question and that if some advice caused temporary pain for me, it must be something I should experience.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
Embrace each new day with great expectations.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It was like Latham: sometimes the point wasn't being the best, because it didn't mean you had the best life, or the best friends, or the best time.
— Robyn Schneider, Extraordinary Means
If you review on GoodReads - make sure you review on Amazon as well!! Help out an author and leave an Amazon review!
— Aimee Brown
It is a sign of arrogance to be mad at someone for not acting as per your advice, especially if it was unsolicited.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Wasting time on timing stuff is a good way to save time from being wasted on other pointless activities like writing, reading, and sleeping.
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
If you cant beat 'em cooperate 'em to death!
— Charles M. Schulz, Peanuts Guide to Life: Wit and Wisdom from the World's Best-Loved Cartoon Characters
It's a fallacy to believe that age in itself brings wisdom, but one thing it infallibly brings is experience.
— Gillian Linscott, Holmes for the Holidays
A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way.... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on... unless of course you prefer sand.
— K.E. Garvey
Stop reliant on human effort. Seek divine power.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Let us, with songs of praise, embrace the sacred year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.
— Texas Bix Bender
There's a lot more to ridin' a horse than just sittin' in the saddle and lettin' yer feet hang down.
— Texas Bix Bender, Don't Squat With Yer Spurs On!: A Cowboy's Guide to Life
It is better to do little things with love than big things without love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When I make a mistake, all I need from you is correction. Some more advice won't hurt. Judge not.
— DaVyshka
What need of prompt or hint when it is open to yourself to discern what needs to be done - and, if you can see your way, to follow it with kind but undeviating intent. If you cannot see the way, hold back and consult your best advisors. if some other factors obstruct this advice, proceed on your present resources, but with cautious deliberations, keeping always to what seems just. Justice is the best aim, as any failure is in fact a failure of justice.A man following reason in all things combines relaxation with initiative, spark with composure.
— Marcus Aurelius
May your sacred star guide you every day of the New Year.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
It takes a lot of courage to push through hard times. Never give up. Good things are coming your way.
— Robert Tew
Here's my advice: don't put all your hope and faith into something that could suddenly and easily disappear. And honestly, that's almost anything. The only thing that will never go away, that will never fail you, is your faith in God.
— Bethany Hamilton
Mentorship is simply learning from the mistakes and mastery of a successful person in his/her field.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Don’t believe the negative criticisms. You are capable beyond measure
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Do you want a good advice on your path? Here it is: Don’t be sure of your path! Don’t ever be sure of it! Do you want more advice? Here it is: Doubt your path! And examine the other paths, know the other paths!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody else cain't be wrong all the time. Sometimes it's gotta be you.
— Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
You're worried about her forgiving you...but you need to be worrying about why you're acting up in the first place.
— Angela Flournoy, The Turner House
She must not give herself up as hopeless, as many a plain girl does, scrape her hair back into an unsymmetrical bundle, have her clothes "cut out with a hatchet and put on with a pitchfork," ill-use her skin with coarse soaps and neglect her figure. Only a beauty may dare all this, and even the loveliest cannot afford it.
— Mrs. C.E. Humphry
I don´t listen to hoax or rumours, but I like a good sense of humour. If you are wrong, be wise, apologize. Otherwise, be kind and rewind. Gone with the wind...
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.
— Bette Bao Lord, Spring Moon: A Novel of China
Many people are not ready to pay for advice they can use, so the few that do, break boundaries and soar higher.
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
Life is holy endured faith.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
When did you star here?” I ask her.“Three days ago. Sir. Aspirant. Um—” She wrings her hands.“Veturius is fine.”She walks carefully, gingerly—the Commandant must have whipped her recently. And yet she doesn't hunch or shuffle like the others slaves. The straight-backed grace with which she moves tells her story better than words. She'd been a freewoman before this—I'd bet my scims on it. And she has no idea how pretty she is—or what kind of problems her beauty will cause for her at a place like Blackcliff. The wind pulls at her hair again, and I catch her scent—like fruit and sugar. “Can I give you some advi
— Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
The beauty of the soul is wrapped in modest fashion.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I advise people to be careful about taking advice from long term Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) victims. If they have had it for decades and have not cleared it up, then you can discount what they have to say regarding curing the condition. However, they are an excellent resource on the biological harm of electromagnetic fields (EMF), EMF avoidance and low EMF products.
— Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity
After the death of a parent, children will typically start to worry about your safety as their mother, so they will need extra reassurance from you.
— James Windell, A Widow's Guide to Healing: Gentle Support and Advice for the First 5 Years
We write to share the deepest heart-talk of our souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Human welfare depends on healthy ecosystems.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
What is yours will be yours without any fight.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Freedom is a free decision.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I’d rather be a hopeless romantic than a skeptic, because while the hopeless romantic may get burned many times, the skeptic will never really experience love.
— Kealohilani, Half-Hearts
Do not make promises when you are happy, either way never make decisions when you are angry. Stay calm.
— David Esabwa
[When asked for her advice to aspiring writers] Run! Just kidding. Sort of. Really, I think the best advice I can give is to wait for the book that compels you to write it-- the one that you eat, sleep, and breathe. If you try to force yourself to create an epic story, you will feel the ensuing drudgery quite acutely-- and worse, your readers will feel it too. Conversely, if you wait for the book that won't leave you alone until you finish it, your readers will feel that energy and it will make it difficult for them to put the book down until they have finished it!
— Kealohilani
We can find the answers will seek in books.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Actions win wars. Actions heal wounds. Not words. Words are cheap. Mine, particularly. -Drew Evans.
— Emma Chase, Tangled
Be with someone you don't want to be without.
— Jeanette Winterson
May we embrace one another with love, a smile and a warm hug?
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
May we love, support and help one another.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
One of the greatest challenges is not going to the mattresses with someone who criticizes your novel.
— Elizabeth Ann Patterson
Dare to love greatly.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Every experience is a book to be written.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
I understand your problem. I'd like to help you out
—  which way did you come in?
You ought to love and care for your parents in their old age.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
God has enough timeless resources for all mankind.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Do not be anxious and begin to pray.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
If someone begins to sing, do not maintain eye contact. The general advice given to fellow travellers is thus: leg it.
— Ness Kingsley, The Curse of Cackling Meadows
It's easy to give advice on trials that have caused you to stumble. It's harder to talk about those that have knocked you flat.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
You have my advice. Carry it with you. It won't slow you down.
— Mark  Lawrence, Emperor of Thorns