William Braxton Irvine quotes

“Desire animates the world. It is present in the baby crying for milk, the girl struggling to solve a math problem, the woman running to meet her lover and later deciding to have children, and the old woman, hunched over her walker, moving down the hall of the nursing home at a glacial pace to pick up her mail. Banish desire from the world, and you get a world of frozen beings who have no reason to live and no reason to die.”
-- William Braxton Irvine

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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“At spare moments in the day, make it a point to contemplate the loss of whatever you value in life. It can make you realize, if only for a time, how lucky you are - how much you have to be thankful for, almost regardless of your circumstances...”
-- William Braxton Irvine

Source : "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy". Book by William Braxton Irvine, October 7, 2008.

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“When it comes to desiring, we are all experts. If there were an Olympics of desiring, we would all make the team.”
-- William Braxton Irvine

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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“You are currently experiencing desire; otherwise, you wouldn't be reading these words. Even if you are reading them at the behest of someone else, you are motivated by your desire to please that person. And if you stop reading, you will not do so because you have stopped desiring but because your desires have changed.”
-- William Braxton Irvine

Source : William Braxton Irvine (2007). “On Desire: Why We Want what We Want”, p.1, Oxford University Press

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“By contemplating the impermanence of everything in the world, we are forced to recognize that every time we do something could be the last time we do it, and this recognition can invest the things we do with a significance and intensity that would otherwise be absent. We will no longer sleepwalk through our life.”
-- William Braxton Irvine

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“I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.”

“I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five,”

“I love you girl...to the moon and back.”

“By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.”

“When the guy says go, you start to suffer - or you might as well not be out there. It's a small piece of your life, make it hurt.”

“Now I've even gotten to running out to the fan buses that pass by our house, so I can talk to the people. I think I'm trying to gather fans, frankly. They're very, very nice people - they really understand. It's fun talking to them.”

“I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.”

“I have a dog and sometimes I'll be the littlest kid with my dog and marvel at his ears and his nose and how he looks at me. If he died, I'd bawl like a baby.”

“I am absolutely a Giants fan and I'm a Dynasty baby so I was a 49ers fan for a long time.”

“Freedom, baby, is never having to say youre sorry.”