Your favourite quotes from Thrills and Chills
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“The rationale of having written this book is to ‘say an inspiring word’ to a lot of people who are hurting, crying and sounding defeatist, an inspiring word to millions of people who are living in pain and indigence. I wrote it for a young chap who hopes there is no life after death so that he can finally rest, for a dejected ailing woman who thinks God enjoys torturing her and for some hopeless folk who threatens his friends he’d shoot himself. I wrote it for them and for myself.”
“Life is not so bad after all when you can breathe.”
“I know the pain. I know the struggle. I know the life because I live it too.”
“Life is like a rugby ball. You never know where it bounces next.”
“Going through life is trudging through the possibilities of pain and bliss, hurt and mirth, thrills and chills.”
“From the experience of history, misfortunes and the heartaches of this life can bring the best in people, and conversely the worst. Pain changes people for better or for worse. It can change a fledgling, naive person to a strong, courageous person or on the other end of the spectrum, sadly however, a devout and pious Christian to a smoking meathead. Such is the power and potentiality of meeting challenges. It can make or break, build or destroy.”
“Sometimes, words of comfort from people -from friends or relatives -don’t achieve much meaning. They don’t cheer us up. They don’t quite lift us up when we are down. We hear them say to us ‘It will be fine’ or ‘stay strong.’ But frankly, at certain times these words don’t do much to raise our low spirits. They sound hollow and routinely familiar.”
“Now, I don‘t suppose that all great achievers-writers, painters, composers and whatnot, have had to go through terrible odds to be where they are but we can see it is these atrocious moments that become the defining opportunities for most of them, if not almost all of them.”
“One of these days you feel your life is miserable, know somebody somewhere is having it worse. And you are not alone. There are a lot of people hurting like you.”
“We are always keeping tabs, as if it’s our devoted business, on what people are wearing or what kind of job they are doing, often secretly, for self-evaluation purposes to reassert our self-esteem or otherwise ruin it…It comes naturally to us to be checking on what people are doing for a living, how they are progressing in life and it’s such a problem to us. You will very likely notice that, people, even those who don’t know anything about you, like following up. Where did your brother get employed? Which course are you doing? How much did you buy those shoes? And so on and so forth. There would be nothing wrong with just knowing what people do, but it’s often with a vicious motive. We want to put them on a scale with us.”
“Men aren’t willing to speak, because to them it’s a sign of weakness. They clamp down on frustration, on disappointment, on anger because that’s what it means to be ‘manly’. And unlike their female counterparts, they opt to ‘shut it within’ until they somaticize and a physical symptom appears.”
“Now, wishing things were better doesn’t make anything better. Situations are not changed by wishes. They are changed by a shift of the mind set and persistence in endeavor that knows no barrier.”
“Everything that has a beginning has an ending. First life…you get birthed and then you die. The sun rises and then it sets. There’s day. There’s night. Even if the night is thick and dark, it doesn’t last forever. It’s followed by a bright morning with invigorating sun rays that dispel the darkness. As with every human experience, success is temporal. Failure is temporal. Winter is temporal. Summer is temporal. Pain is temporal or actually accurately ephemeral. These things are only short lived.”
