Al Smith Quotes

To her credit, though, Trace didn't lose her famous temper, not at that moment. At eighteen she was already expert at the older woman's art of fermenting rage, conserving it, for later use.

One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.

Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.

Your heart is yours to give, it is no ones to take. Not a queen. Not a prince. No one.

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me.

It's better to live as you will want to have lived, rather than spend your time worrying about the end. You are right here in your story. Don't skip ahead

But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.

Resentment can be intoxicating in a way in which a drunk starts to believe he’s stronger than he is.

... you might have been born to work the land. But according to the fate you’ve made for yourself, you were meant to save it.

A moral dilemma is equally absorbing whether the stakes are the destiny of nations or the happiness of one or two people - at the most.

There is no chance, no fate, no destiny that can circumvent, or hinder, or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Creativity is salve for the soul

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but ingenuity is the bombshell of success

Recovery from complete and utter exhaustion facilitates individual creativity

Group idea sessions rarely work. Why? Members too busy knocking down insights to hear the tap-tap of revelation

Life is at the bottom of things and belief at the top, while the creative impulse, dwelling in the center, informs all.

Creativity is the elixir of life.

Good" now is better than "Best" never.

Discovery's friend is creativity

You will know who wants you to succeed by the way they see the good in you before they ever see your flaws.

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

May our words blaze the way to our future

The something which had been a future was now a present and would become a past.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

Words are themselves organisms, ...

Words were stories in themselves.

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

We see answers to prayer all around us.our home, family, children, healing, life, love, are all answers to prayer.

God has given you the opportunity to make a difference. Plan purposefully, Prepare Prayerfully, Proceed Positively & Pursue Persistently!

Abba, Father, I adore You, I exalt You, I glorify You, I bow down before You. I worship You O God! I can't live without You. Jesus, Daddy, I ❤ You with all my heart.

Dear God, ’ she prayed, ‘let me be something every minute of every hour of my life.

Perhaps priest and magician were once one, but the priest, learning humility in the face of God, discarded the spell for prayer.

After all, it's one thing to run away when someone's chasing you. It's entirely another to be running all alone.

I want to stay still and to keep moving. I want this life and another.

With enough hope, you can set a fire to find the way out of the darkness.

Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel guiding the way.

I don't trust easily, so when I tell you I trust you, don't make me regret it.

He who cares for the sparrows and numbers the hairs of our head, cannot possibly fail us.

Did you know that each day that dawns, you are in "TODAY?" Stay in "Today" and you will never have to worry about tomorrow. God will take care of tomorrow.

As long as there is Fear, Faith is not to be found.Believe the finished work of Christ. Rise Up to Faith!

Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.

You could tell a lot about someone by the way they carried a secret-by how safe they kept it, how soon they told, the way they acted when they were trying to keep it from spilling out.

It can’t be epic if there’s no challenge to it.

The important part is that you had someone to stick by you all that time. Even when everything sucked.

The innate longing within every soul is to awaken from the spirit's slumber and then to journey home.

There are certain things in life that you'll be forgiven for, no matter how thoughtless or stupid or reckless, but if you do that same thing twice, you're on your own.

❤ doesn't wait to be told there's a need, it sees. ❤ never justifies a wrong, it repents. ❤ cannot retire, it has much to much work to do.

God may forgive you if He chooses, but not I. Au revoir.

To love those who love us and are good to us is easy. To love those who are indifferent to us is workable, but to love those who have harmed us, intentionally or not, is true growth and realization.

I realize in this moment that all my life I've felt that I deserve to be punished, for wanting so much, for taking so much from this world, from the people who love me.