Quotes of Jim Bouton

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Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

- Jim Bouton

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“ Isn't it strange how we all start as strangers? Fall in love, share infinities, hurt each other, fall out of love to eventually end as the strangers we once were? ”

- Fiphie

“ It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ”

- Andre Gide

“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé

“ Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualitieshis rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. ”

- Ursula K. Le Guin

“ A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination. ”

- Richelle E. Goodrich

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ When we go into stillness we can hear our soul’s voice loud and clear. If we speak from our heart we share our soul’s melody with the world. ”

- Christina Goetz

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ I can only think about the past, but I can always design the future. ”

- Davin Ferrigon

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ I can't make someone stay, but I can make me stay with someone. A successful relationship needs a constant decision to remain committed. ”

- Jeffrey Alcuizar Igot

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ You are everything I never knew I always wanted. ”

- Fools Rush In

“ If music be the food of love, play on. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ I was watching the first raindrops falling down on the porous ground. Each drop disappeared eagerly into the sand without any hesitations. The Earth, in turn, embraced it warmly like it has gotten back something precious that once belonged to it. I, somehow, thought that this particular image suited more our story than anything else ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. ”

- Anais Nin

“ Love yourself, whatever makes you different, and use it to make you stand out. Mine is my voice and the fact that I’m gay: well, the fact that I’m flamboyantly gay. ”

- Ross Mathews