Life Quotes Quote by Roy T. Bennett — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“It is difficult to make the right choice if you fear choosing wrongly.”

“To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are.”

“Be patient and open-minded in your interactions with others; find the positive attributes that they possess.”

“Do more listening than talking; talk more about them than about you.”

“The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure.”

“You are not the victim of the world, but rather the master of your own destiny. It is your choices and decisions that determine your destiny.”

“Do you wake up as I do, having forgotten what it is that hurts or where, until you move? There is a second of consciousness that is clean again. A second that is you, without memory or experience, the animal warm and waking into a brand new world. There is the sun dissolving the dark, and light as clear as music, filling the room where you sleep and the other rooms behind your eyes.”

“The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts.”

“We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know it was not I: it was another woman, who kept her notebooks so that one day I could use them. I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. ... That's why my Grandmother Clara wrote in her notebooks, in order to see things in their true dimension and to defy her own poor memory.”

“What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted?”