I. J. Good Quotes
We spent 10 years writing our first fiction story and truly hope people like it.
A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.
An unrested mind is prone to wander into unfruitful avenues
Some folks are forced to the edges by their difference. (...) But 'tis at the edges that they find their power.
yes. Menace and danger, That's what passion is-dangerous love-love that put you at risk, that gets a hold of you and makes you do things you wouldn't normally do. It's the only love worth having..
Loving someone is sticking a pin through a voodoo doll and not hitting any vital organs
So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?
That is why humans resist life. To be alive is the biggest fear humans have. Death is not the biggestfear we have
When you’re comfortable and content with who you are, the voices of others who try and define, control or direct you are not important.
Saying thanks to the world, and acknowledging your own accomplishments, is a great way to feel good and stay positive.
No truly happy person feels the need to stand in front of a mirror and recite that she's happy. She just is.
Discipline your mind to think positively
We are doing a huge disservice to a dying world if a manifestation of the joy in us is not coming out of us.
Joy is a characteristic of spiritual maturity and of surrender.
Thankfulness is the quickest path to joy.
Manners without sincerity, is called polite society
There is no life after death, so offer kindness to all, not in the next life but now.
We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.
The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.
It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad
Failure gave me an inner security that I had never attained by passing examinations.
Be happy NOW. This moment is all you’ve got
How do I structure my life to be at peace with who I am, & comfortable with what I’m doing & not doing?
Time is not a means to keep or prove your worth in the world, but a means to experience the richness of all that is.
My emotional state is determined by where my attention goes.
PATH TO SUCCESS: DREAM. PLAN. DO. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. FAIL. NEVER GIVE UP. ACHIEVE! IT'S A MESSY JOURNEY.
She told herself that she was happy to meet her executioner.
Anyone can spin a victory, it's a total loss that demands creativity
...it saddens me that she has to grow up and make friends with humans. I hear the future coming for her. Stomp, stomp, stomp.
Anyway, God is not susceptible to proofs and disproofs. If you believe, the evidence is all around you. If you don’t believe, no evidence can be enough.
You are one belief away from breakthrough. It’s a choice, so choose the next right thing, you can do it!
The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.
I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.
A big part of dealing with depression is realizing that you are in control of your own happiness.
I slip away into the night, I won't have much to take. Only the story of this life, with you, I leave behind
I know it's me that needs this moment. Your hand to hold my heart still cares. A thought I will hold when I wake in the morning, when I turn to you and you're not there.
For him I was like the land, something to care for...well, he loved to make things grow. But he resembled the land more than me. He needed constant cultivation, or the fruit turned wild.