Al Smith Quotes
Shall you live authentically who you are or will you spend your allotted living the life of someone you imagine your self to be?
That which enables us to know and understand aright in the things of God, must be a living principle of holiness within us.
I couldn’t help wondering what it was that made me not good enough. It was a familiar feeling. I’d had it off and on my entire life.
The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.
You can't make yourself feel positive, but you can choose how to act, and if you choose right, it builds your confidence.
If you remain in a positive spiral, you will always learn something new to reach your goals.
Yeah, because you'll really be showing them, won't you. Talk about cutting up your wrists to spite your fate.
Know that tomorrow will bring clarity where before was only fog. In the final summation, it is not other's expectations that slay us, but our over compensatory reactions in regard
The worst outcome of not trying is never getting to fail.
They have been taught nothing but destruction and learned nothing except that a man's desires can be achieved simply by killing anybody who stands in his way.
Nice dress, ” Victoria said.“Thank you, ” Perpetua said. “Do you mind if I ask you a personal question?”Victoria blinked. “Uh, what?
Imperfection doesn’t disqualify you from helping others -- it makes you more qualified to give advice in the area you learned from.
The requirement for advice being received well is that you’ve produced results with your life. Results are what matters!
It was a voice that you felt you had to listen to—or you ignored at your peril.
And by the way, if she constantly leaving you messages that she's in another castle...she's just not that into you. Move on.
There is no giving advice to a young man so much in love.
It is hard to say YES when you cannot say NO. Say NO a lot more. Mean it. Watch how saying YES then becomes easier.
They called her witch because she knew how to heal herself.
...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.
Just because you painted a house didn't mean the furniture inside was any different. It had to be the same with people.
I’m beginning to feel as though we’re in some kind of cocoon, I’m just afraid as to what we are going to emerge as. Will I fly away or will he destroy me.
I do believe in shooting the messenger.You know why? Because it sends a message.
Opera?" Trelon asked tiredly, "What the hell is opera?" "I'll tell you what it is! It is the screeching of the death birds, that 's what it is!Capturing Cara (Dragon Lords of Valdier, #2)
If you were a real professional, you'd build a bridge and get over it.
Grandma, please don’t go. I’m frightened., Grandma. I need you!” “…never be afraid, Cassie. There’s nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it…
Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.
A thousand pounds for clothes--when on thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter!
Being soaked alone is cold. Being soaked with your best friend is an adventure.
If you are constrained to playing by the rules while your opponent is not, then you are certain to lose.
And how long will your fingers be so tangled in the law that you can't live out of My grace?
Grace means that God steps into the lives of particular individuals with the purpose and effect of saving them. He needs no permission to do this, nor is He under any obligation to do so.
And the geography of the thing--the geography of them--was completely and hopelessly wrong.
All that is necessary for evil to prevail is for good people to do nothing.
There are pockets of time, she thinks, where every sense rings like a bell, where the world brims with fleeting grace.
This thing was what existed before life, before the first stars, before the big bang. It was the emptiness before the universe, and the emptiness that would follow.
In the real world, babysitting is a groovy way for young people to learn responsibility (and earn a little pocket money). In the Terrorverse, it's a plot device used to kill teenagers.
... crowding together to see something which would ease the boredom of perfection and time.
I couldn’t help but notice how hot he looked tonight with his strong build lining his t-shirt. He should never cover his beauty with clothes and such things. - Ariel
I could have something like an encounter out there – a vicarious experience completely free of any fears of infection or the face-to-face intimacy I didn’t know how to process.