Stephen Elliott famous quotes

A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive you’ll always be alone.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Reflection #Years #Light

You'd be amazed how much fun you can have if you get out of your own head. The problem is that now people are only interested in themselves. What we have is a non-voting generation. That's what they should call you guys, the non-voting generation. You think you can't fix anything until you fix yourselves. Well, let me be the first to tell you, you will never fix yourselves. p.32
-- Stephen Elliott

#Fun #Thinking #People

What we remember, and how we order and interpret what we believe to be true, are what shapes who we are.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Believe #Order #Shapes

If you never forgive you'll always be alone.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Forgiving #Never Forgive #Ifs

In every book I ever wrote the point was to do as much as you could after coming to terms with your limitations.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Book #Term #Limitation

The best book I read in 2007 was Stoner by John Williams. It’s perhaps the best book I’ve read in years.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Book #Years #Stoners

That’s why you have to write your book right now, if that’s what you want to do. If you wait until you have the time, and the security, you might not want to do it. You’re in a race against your own enthusiasm. Don’t put it off because someone told you it’s never too late. That’s the worst lie. It’s never too late today, but it’s often too late tomorrow.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Lying #Book #Writing

Tom Kealey might be my favorite short story writer and this astonishing collection is long overdue.
-- Stephen Elliott

#Long #Story Writers #Stories

All our first movements are good, generous, heroical; reflection weakens and kills them.

Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.

I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.

The thoughts of others Were light and fleeting, Of lovers' meeting Or luck or fame. Mine were of trouble, And mine were steady; So I was ready When trouble came.

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

Happiness is attained, not through self-interest, but through unconditional fidelity in endless love of eternal light.

We can see the light at the end of the tunnel. We just need to keep battling. We're a team that has stuck together through the good times and the bad times. Our reward is near.

I am in awe of the things you've been put through and the fact you can still light up a room when you walk in. When I look at you I see life. I see joy. I see my future.