Jason Peter quotes

“Nebraskans know the true meaning of life... work, spending time with loved ones, and Saturdays in the fall.”
-- Jason Peter

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

#Fall Quotes #Meaning Of Life Quotes #Loved Ones Quotes

“I identified myself through football so when Jason Peter the football player no longer existed, Jason Peter the person was gone as well. Such a huge part of my struggle in life was finding a purpose, trying to find something else that I could be great at.”
-- Jason Peter

Source : Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

#Football Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Player Quotes

“A lot of people think that in order to be an addict you must come from a broken home or from the other side of the tracks. Both of those excuses couldn't be farther from the truth. I come from a family that has a lot of love for one another and I was raised in a middle to upper class neighborhood.”
-- Jason Peter

Source : Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

#Home Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“There are many people that can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. They have feelings of hopelessness and feel like they don't have any purpose on this Earth. Some of them feel like death is the only option they have. I know because I felt that way.”
-- Jason Peter

#Tunnels Quotes #Light Quotes #People Quotes

“I was at a point in my life where I didn't have any hope, but it wasn't the end for me. I buckled down, put in the effort and hard work and was able to get myself out of that hole. You always have to have hope.”
-- Jason Peter

Source : Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

#Hard Work Quotes #Effort Quotes #Able Quotes

“I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.”
-- Jason Peter

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com

#Football Quotes #Using Your Brain Quotes #Brain Quotes

“I absolutely love being back in Nebraska and I love that my wife is able to experience a lot of the great things that made me love this place years ago. The lifestyle, the people.”
-- Jason Peter

Source : Interview with Husker Faithful, bleacherreport.com. August 14, 2008.

#Love Is Quotes #Years Quotes #People Quotes

“Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“The brand is lying about something, or at least misrepresenting it. When I read a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer or other beauty product, I always perceive a dark subtext. The words haunt me. It comes across as humorous to the reader/audience, but in fact the words really do make me a little bit queasy. Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony.”

Source : "Cartographer of Word Galaxies". Interview with Susan Lerner, logger.believermag.com. September 24, 2013.

“I don't know much, but I know I love you... that may be all there is to know.”

“You're going to fall down, but the world doesn't care how many times you fall down, as long as it's one fewer than the numbers of times you get back up.”

Source : "Remarks by Aaron Sorkin ’83 at Syracuse University’s 158th Commencement and the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry’s 115th Commencement". Aaron Sorkin's Commencement address at Syracuse University in New York, news.syr.edu. May 13, 2012.

“Terror ripped through me as I was falling, falling, falling toward the sea.”

Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

“The most radical question which anyone can be asked is not how much their possessions cost, but whether they have found something of value - that is, something that makes living worthwhile.”

Source : Alister E. McGrath (1999). “The Unknown God: Searching for Spiritual Fulfilment”, p.50, Lion Books

“Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .”

“The beautiful in life... Some talk of it in poetry, Some grow it from the soil, Some build it in a steeple, Some show it through their toil. Some breathe it into music, Some mold it into art, Some shape it into bread loaves... Some hold it in their hearts.”

“My priority is to hang out with the ones I love - my family, my loved ones.”

“Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.”