I'm Not Ok Quotes

“No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.”

— Clementine Von Radics

“Any youth which is not misspent is, by definition, misspent.”

— Hermester Barrington

“I'm OK with being single, but I'm not OK when the time comes where I have to move my furniture around and to change the high ceiling light balls ...”

— Hiroko Sakai

“We always assume someone else will come to the rescue, but it's never us. Surely somebody will have the decency to be the hero. Right? It doesn't work like that. Not when everyone assumes someone else will do the right thing.”

— Jeff Goins

“Wind will bring the fragrance of Flower ... Not the Flower”

— Arafath Shanas

“With my sort of book there's no resolution, because there's no solution. The problems aren't answered in the end because there is no answer. They're problems that are handed on to the reader, not solved for him so that he can go away thinking he lives in a beautiful world. It's not a beautiful world.”

— Malcolm Bradbury

“But you are right, being stupid is not illegal. Otherwise half this town would be behind bars.”

— Jennifer Echols

“I don't know if I killed my dad or not.”

— Jeanne Willis

“For many of the dying, intensive care, with its isolation among strangers, extinguishes their hope of not being abandoned in the last hours. If fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them.”

— Sherwin B. Nuland

“I'm not your only love, Gray," She insisted. "I'm just your first love.”

— Katie Kacvinsky

“Apt and poetic though this was, it was simply too bleak to read at a funeral. Instead I settled on Rumfoord's farewell speech on page 2007, which starts: "I am not dying. I am merely taking my leave of the solar system," and ends: "I shall always be here. I shall always be wherever I've been.”

— Gavin Extence

“Greed is not a defect in the gold that is desired but in the man who loves it perversely by falling from justice which he ought to esteem as incomparably superior to gold; nor is lust a defect in bodies which are beautiful and pleasing: it is a sin in the soul of the one who loves corporal pleasures perversely, that is, by abandoning that temperance which joins us in spiritual and unblemishable union with realities far more beautiful and pleasing; nor is boastfulness a blemish in words of praise: it is a failing in the soul of one who is so perversely in love with other peoples' applause that he despises the voice of his own conscience; nor is pride a vice in the one who delegates power, still less a flaw in the power itself: it is a passion in the soul of the one who loves his own power so perversely as to condemn the authority of one who is still more powerful.”

— Augustine Of Hippo

“I was there that first night her called you. I've seen how he looked at you in pictures. Any bloke with a working prick would be insane not to like you.”

— Stephanie Perkins

“Do not borrow the productions of other men's brains and pens and recite them as a lesson; but make the most of the talents, the brain power, that God has given you.”

— Ellen G. White

“I was happy there. Which is to say I was not unhappy there. Unhappiness and happiness I have always been able to carry about with me, irrespective of place and people, because I have never joined in.”

— Stephen Fry

“I always wanted to be tall, but I'm not, OK?”

— Cheryl Ladd

“God has ordered our existence to operate like a farmer planting seed in a field. If you pray and ask God for an oak tree, the Almighty might send you an acorn, because big things can come from small beginnings. God's answer may not look like your request. So when you get an acorn but were expecting a tree, don't throw the acorn away. Your tree is in the seed. God works through the agricultural principle of planting a seed and reaping a harvest. Your something small can become something mighty if you are a good steward of the seed.”

— T.D. Jakes

“The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.”

— Carmen Agra Deedy

“I'm not OK dancing 90 percent.”

— Carla Korbes

“I'm quite into listening to music and not doing anything else.”

— Jonny Greenwood

“My friends always laugh because I'm the kind of person who bought the Brooks Brothers school skirt, even though it's not my school's uniform skirt, but just because I liked it. I'm a knee-high socks kind of person.”

— Yara Shahidi

“Not that the clear perception of certain weaknesses in those whom we love in any way diminishes our affection for them; rather that affection makes us find those weaknesses charming.”

— Marcel Proust

“I think we're seeing privacy diminish, not by laws ... but by young people who don't seem to value their privacy.”

— Alan Dershowitz

“When people related by blood were so careful with each other, when they were so very polite, there was soon nothing left to say. Only niceties that meant so little they might as well have been spoken to a complete stranger. Pass the butter, open the door, see you after school, there's rain again, it's sunny, it's cold. Has the dog eaten? Has the window been shut? Where are you going? Why is it I don't know you at all?
Such statements did not add up to anything like a family ...”

— Alice Hoffman

“I have a lot of Chinese fans who buy my movies on the street and watch them, and I'm OK with it. I'm not OK with it in other places, but if the government's going to censor me, then I want the people to see it in any way they can.”

— Quentin Tarantino

“Not to wish too hard for a shift in circumstances since it never happens as you imagine.”

— Ann Aguirre

“They too, knew this beautiful and harrowing landscape; they'd had the same experience of looking up from their books with fifth-century eyes and finding the world disconcertingly sluggish and alien, as if it were not their home.”

— Donna Tartt

“There was a lot of fiction I did not enjoy, whose landscapes seemed bland and unevocative, the characters faint-hearted within them, the very words lacking vibrancy.”

— Sarah Hall

“One day, you're in a physical landscape you share with this bizarre and fundamentally alien creature, not alien because she's female but alien because you're a fool in love and there's nothing not alien about that. And then when she's gone, you're alone and all the strangeness and wonder have gone out of the landscape and you're still a fool but now nobody notices how many days in a row you wear the same socks and cleaning the shower doesn't make the girl smile anymore so everything smells a little worse and doesn't get fixed when it breaks. I missed the feminine touch-not just hers, but mine. I missed being half-boy, half-girl, part of a whole. Now that I was male in a male environment, it was harder to manifest her physical chick presence, no matter how many of her MAC lipsticks I set out on the coffee table in a basket like so many M&Ms.”

— Rob Sheffield

“Our relationship with Nature ... best way of forging this relationship ... be a pilgrim and not a tourist on Planet Earth”

— Satish Kumar

“Your wedding will not be what you think it is going to be, no matter what you think it is going to be.”

— Mimi Pond

“Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.”

— John Wimber

“Many people do not reach their eighties because they spend too much time in their forties.”

— Salvador Dali

“There are situations when all answers and explanations fade. When you fully accept that you do not know, you give up struggling to find answers with the limited thinking mind. That is when the greater intelligence can operate though you. Sometimes surrender means giving up trying to understand and becoming comfortable with not knowing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

“I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK.”

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“Our work is not to save souls, but to disciple them. Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace, and our work as His disciples is to disciple others' lives until they are totally yielded to God. One life totally devoted to God is of more value to Him than one hundred lives which have been simply awakened by His Spirit. As workers for God, we must reproduce our own kind spiritually, and those lives will be God's testimony to us as His workers. God brings us up to a standard of life through His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that same standard in others.”

— Oswald Chambers

“We do the right thing not to please people but because it's the only logically reasonable thing to do, as long as we are being honest with ourselves - even if we are the only ones.”

— Wangari Maathai

“Anybody who says that love is a hindrance on the path of self-realization is not a sage.”

— Rajneesh

“It's time to stop pretending I'm ok with things I'm not ok with like all insects and Foster the People.”

— Greg Behrendt

“Is it better not to drink alcohol and eat fried food and not have cheese and never have a cigarette at a party? Of course, but that's just not life.”

— Gwyneth Paltrow

“Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time.”

— H. P. Blavatsky

“The people you like when you meet them and while you know them, and the people you remember fondly, are invariably people who have a sense of comedy, not just a sense of humor.”

— William Saroyan

“Be not merely good. Be good for something.”

— Henry David Thoreau

“I'm not OK, you're not OK-and that's OK.”

— William Sloane Coffin

“Displacement of any part of the skeletal frame may press against nerves, which are the channels of communication, intensifying or decreasing their carrying capacity, creating either too much or not enough functionating, an aberration known as disease. The nature of the affection depends upon the shape of the bone, the amount of pressure, age of patient, character of nerves impinged upon and the individual makeup.”

— Daniel D. Palmer