Deborah Quotes
When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.
I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.
The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.
How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?
Though all humans need both intimacy and independence, women tend to focus on the first and men on the second. It is as if their lifeblood ran in different directions.
Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball.
Girls are not accustomed to jockeying for status in an obvious way; they are more concerned that they be liked.
Life is a matter of dealing with other people, in little matters and cataclysmic ones, and that means a series of conversations.
any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.
Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.
In an ongoing relationship, each current criticism packs the punches of all the others that have gone before.
But if you parry individuals points - a negative and defensive enterprise - you never step back and actively imagine a world in which a different system of ideas could be true - a positive act.
I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.
Letting go doesn't mean that you don't care about someone anymore. It's just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.
So I placed my heart under lock and key To take some time, and take care of me But I turn around and you're standing here
How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?
When you make the dream of your heart a treasure of heaven, it holds an eternal value.
Your beliefs have the power to unlock your inner genius or keep you from fully achieving your greatest potential.
Being truly happy in life involves you feeling more in control of the direction your life is going.
My ideas about vampires may be romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.
I'm sure we all have dreams of leaving at some time in our lives, but when we reach the bottom, most of us go running home.
Some wrong eternity that wouldn’t budge, like trying to move a wardrobe or a safe, only to feel how light I was.
True beauty radiates not from outer cosmetics, but from the simple joy of making a difference for those that need your voice, passion, and time without expecting or wanting anything in return...
For you she learned to wear a short black slipand red lipstick, how to order a glass of red wineand finish it. She learned to reach outas if to touch your arm and then nottouch it, changing the su
Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.
Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)
Imagination is an extraordinary resource within each of us with powers not found in ordinary thought processes.
Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.
Regina read all this, thinking with each sentence she'd put the book down. But a sentence became a paragraph, which flowed on into a page, two pages, a chapter, more.
Encourage, lift and strenthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all.
In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
