C.F. Joyce Quotes

Unbidden, Unwelcome, Yet unable to resist, I entered a stranger's life

I have always loved Elle. I love her now even more deeply than before, as the woman I wish to share my life with."~Sean O'Neill

He is cured by faith who is sick of fate.

Life did come with a manual.

‎I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that is the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Warum man schreibt, ist eine Frage die sich der Schriftsteller, völlig versunken in seine Arbeit, nicht stellt. Theorien sind das Gebiet derer, die nicht handeln.

It isn't the subjects we write about but the seriousness and subtlety of our expression that determines the worth of or effort.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.

By thinking of things you could understand them.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

The horizon changes but the sun does not.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

Life is a curriculum unique to every student.

Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.

Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.

Nobody ever goes before their time.

Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.

Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.

When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.

Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.

If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.

Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.

Not all friends know they have lost you.

Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide, A part of you has died.

If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today

If your dream is a big dream, and if you want your life to work on the high level that you say you do, there's no way around doing the work it takes to get you there.

What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?

You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

A woman's heart is much stronger than a man's. They are weak creatures, dear. Weak, and often far more insecure than they present on the outside. Trust your love, child. The rest will follow.

But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue, Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.

Legs was always proud even before FOXFIRE, that’s the primary fact about Legs Sadovsky: pride.

If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.

I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.

They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.