Robert Hellenga Quotes

Sometimes pain is God’s megaphone, his only way to get our attention.

The only meaning our lives have is the meaning we give them.

However far back you go you will find all experiences linked by slender threads.

Sometimes it takes a little jolt to make us appreciate what we’ve got.

Fussing over food was important. It gave a shape to the day: breakfast, lunch, dinner; beginning, middle, end.

The advice he reads in Ann Landers – good advice as long as you don’t need it, perfectly sensible as long as you don’t have any use for it.

What to do with the past? There was so much of it.

He doesn't believe in talking too much about art, especially while you're looking at it. The pressure to appreciate is the great enemy of actual enjoyment. Most people don't know what they like because they feel obligated to like so many different things. They feel they're supposed to be overwhelmed, so instead of looking, they spend their time thinking up something to say, something intelligent, or at least clever.