Rita Mae Brown Quotes
About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them, and some won't like you at all.
A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.
Odd thing about death ... it reaffirms life.
I know it's not normal for people in this world to be happy, and I'm happy.
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.
Loving's pretty easy. It's letting someone love you that's hard.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four people is suffering from a mental illness. Look at your 3 best friends. If they're ok, then it's you.
About all you can do in life is be who you are.
I used to think romantic love was a neurosis shared by two, a supreme foolishness. I no longer think that. There's nothing foolish in loving anyone. Thinking you'll be loved in return is what's foolish.
Oh well, maybe the only beauty left in cities is in the oil slicks on the road and maybe there isn't any beauty left in the people who live in these places.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
I believe you are your work. Don't trade the stuff of your life, time, for nothing more than dollars. That's a rotten bargain.
I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.
Love is the wild card of existence.
Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.
Language asserts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.
Sorrow is how we learn to love. Your heart isn't breaking. It hurts because it's getting larger. The larger it gets, the more love it holds.
You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
I don't believe in straight or gay. I really don't. I think we're all degrees of bisexual.