Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
Stephen KingRead
Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Embrace life with courage and positivity, even during challenging times.
In this quote, Stephen King emphasizes the importance of facing life's challenges with both courage and a positive mindset. By suggesting that one should keep smiling and enjoy uplifting music while pursuing life's journey, he highlights how maintaining a brave and true demeanor can empower individuals to overcome obstacles and embrace their experiences wholeheartedly.
Themes
CourageSmilingLifeBeliefBravery
In practice
Example use cases
This quote can be used as a motivational speech starter to inspire an audience facing challenges.
More from Stephen King
All quotes →Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
Stephen KingRead
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Stephen KingRead
Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
Stephen KingRead
That's the day's business. Thinking. Thinking and isolation, because it doesn't matter if you pass the time of day with someone or not; in the end, you're alone. He seemed to have put in as many miles in his brain as he had with his feet. The thoughts kept coming and there was no way to deny them.
Stephen KingRead
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
Stephen KingRead
Similar quotes
I try to run on the hottest days, at the hottest time, because that's the most difficult time. And sometimes I worry about drying out, and dying.
Walter PaytonRead
Every adversity contains, at the same time, a seed of equivalent opportunity!
Napoleon HillRead
My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar, which proves I’m the king of the ring by far.
Muhammad AliRead
No matter how carefully you plan your goals they will never be more than pipe dreams unless you pursue them with gusto.
W. Clement StoneRead
I will try one hundred times to get up, and if I fail one hundred times. If I fail and I give up, will I ever get up? No! If I fail I’ll try again, and again and again. But I want to tell you it’s not the end.
Nick VujicicRead
I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.
Madonna CicconeRead