Andrew Davidson Quotes

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Vanity is both a great motivator and a great deceiver.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Love is as strong as death, as hard as hell.

Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

I envy all suffering, because suffering is necessary to become spiritually beautiful.

That which is painful sharpens one's love.

Things should be judged by distance traveled rather than by current position.

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

All history is just one man trying to take something away from another man, and usually it doesn't really belong to either of them.

The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.

Boredom was my bedmate and it was hogging the sheets.

It was not long before I discovered that withdrawing addicts lost their composure in exactly the same manner that careless millionaires lose their money: gradually, then suddenly.

That which abides the fire shall become clean. The water of separation shall purify. The Lord is a consuming fire. That which can't abide the fire shall go through water.

Hell is a choice because salvation is available to anyone who seeks it.

I am more than my scars.

Talking with the mouth of a beast won't ease your pain.

What is it like to wear another person’s skin?”“I don’t have a good answer for that, ” I said. “It hurts.”“Can you remember their stories? Can you feel the love that they felt?

She says the problem with most Christians is that they show up once a week to pray that God's will be done- and when it is, they complain.

As Blake wrote in The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: “You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret..

…She kissed me on my thin lips and all my words were pushed back into my mouth. “I don’t want to die, ” she whispered, “but I need to lose the shackles of this multitude of hearts.

There I lay, wearing dead people as armor against death.

Some day soon, " Lance said, "you'll walk out of here and have to decide how you're going to live the rest of your lives. Will you be defined by what other people see, or by the essence of your soul?