C.F. Joyce Quotes

I am bothered by poems I don't understand.

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.

Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.

The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.

The distinction between "assistant" and intern" is a simple one: assistants are paid, interns are not.But of course interns are paid, in experience.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

The garden is a miraculous place, and anything can happen on a beautiful moonlit night.

My heart had been crush torn and crumble but I'm still here and I'm not broken I'm still fighting my way out

You can comfort me with your words and your gifts but it can not comfort me with the pain you gave

The deeper the pain, the greater the fear, the wider the door opens to a new world. Step through.

Love opens us.Pain deepens us.Courage strengthens us.Joy enlightens us.Beauty renews us.

Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.

Oh, I forgot to tell you the rest of it—he’s a widower now, so they can ride off together into the sunset, their wedding rings glinting.

An unresolved issue will be like a cancer with the potential to spread into other areas of your relationship, eroding the joy, lightness, love and beauty.

LEXI: I’d settled for this awful existence because I’d convinced myself it was better than being alone....But it’s not.

WINTER: Because I guess I like the idea that maybe someday I can find my place, you know? My niche. Somewhere people will keep me.

Everyone is effed up, Dalton. At some point, you just have to find someone to share the baggage with.

Tobias: No one ever said this would be easy, and you don’t seem like the type of woman to take the easy way out.

Link had to make the decision to save himself.

Clotilda: ....don’t take him for granted. No day is promised us with the ones we love....

Link: .....It’s the imperfections that give you character out here.

Maybe her parents had picked a favorite kid, but that hadn’t bowed Kate. It had made her lock her legs and stand strong instead.

Music is stored in our long-term memory. When we learn something through music, we tend to remember it longer and believe it more deeply. Dr. Joyce Brothers

Like music, said Peg. Even when it was over, it kept living inside you.

I rip out my wings I so I can't be free, I rip up my wounds so it doesn't heal, if I rip out my heart does this mean I can't feel

The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

Family is not limited by blood or marriage. It's limited to love and bond to one another in one's heart

I can push them away, fight them, or ignore them but family is something you can never get rid of.

He laughed to free his mind from his minds bondage.

He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.

I can all have all the money in the world, hold all the power, or be worshiped like a god but all are meaningless without love.

When facing the world always remember stand tall back straight chin up and always put a smile on your face

One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.

There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?

Regarding school vs. homeschoolIf it works, send them there!If it doesn't, don't import it.

Popular! In America, what else matters?

It had seemed to me an elegant nightmare concoction made by adults for adults, to further the aims and fantasies of adults, and what have children to do with such things?

He had no idea of my misery. It would have surprised him to think that I was a human creature with a soul.

We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.

A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known.

The gossip will kill your Great Grandmother.