31 Quotes by Lee Gutkind

I am learning how to let my yes be yes and my no mean no without the need to justify why I choose to say either.

I have a lifetime of learning ahead of me. I apply many of the things I learned in school, but I’ve forgotten most. Random snippets of the rules come back to me, at times, but my mind will eventually eradicate them all, relearn them, and reinvent them.

Feeling more tired than I’d ever felt after work, I walked through the sliding glass doors leading to the small alley that separated the parking garage from the hospital. I usually experienced this passage as a sort of limbo: a seven-foot-long stretch of asphalt that got me to where I parked, a portal where tired nurses left as fresh ones entered. On that morning, though, I felt a breeze on my face as I stepped through the double doors and saw the day’s first light, and it hit me: I’m alive.

We pray, those of us who believe; those of us who don’t believe ask, Let me go quickly and peacefully into the night.

There are few things we can control; our emotions are not among them.

Panic, as I said before, is the most contagious of all sicknesses.

Bloggers intent on self-expression which renders no service to readers don’t get read.

Medication cannot cure you of depression. Like a seatbelt, it can save your life – but a seatbelt never brought joy to anyone’s heart. A seatbelt never put a skip in a step.

The myth of objectivity made nonfiction increasingly unread. In feature articles, we could be playful in the opening and clever in the end but in the middle it was back to the boring basics.