I. J. Good Quotes
If life is a bowl of cherries, what's inside of it?
Patience is learning to take a deep breath while you’re exhaling
It is possible to become world-class, enter the top 5% of performers in the world, in almost any subject within 6-12 months, or even 6-12 weeks.
Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening
If you see the light at the end of the tunnel, you’re lookingthrough binoculars the wrongway
Be under the broad day light and act rightly
You trust him?" he said. "No, " said Hastur. "Right, " said Ligur. It's be a funny old world, he reflected, if demons went round trusting one another.
Perhaps trust had to be accompanied by a measure of common sense, and a hefty dose of realism about human nature. But that would need a lot of thinking about, and the tea break did not go on forever.
I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.
But understand that the reason it is so difficult to extend forgiveness to those who have failed us is because we are unable to receive forgiveness for our own failures.
She has committed great sins, but they've been forgiven, and that's why she loves so deeply.
What is love for, if not to intensify our affections—both in life and death? But, O, do not be bitter. It is tragically self-destructiveto be bitter.
Saying good-bye when you know it's for the last time is like no other sadness you will ever experience.
I don't see why it matters what is written. Not when it's about people. It can always be crossed out.
We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
But they never again passed up the opportunity to read a good book, together.
Y'know, men and women are a lot alike in certain situations, like sitting on frozen peas after a vasectomy
Technology and technology-driven change has virtually nothing to do with igniting a transformation from good to great
Dakota pulled a lollipop out of his pocket before quickly unwrapping it and popping it into his mouth. "What kind of vampire sucks on human candy?
Dakota started laughing. "You wouldn't have anything back there to help me tame a punk-rock wild child with a disdain for cowboys, would you?
Damn, girl. If I still breathed, I'd be suffocated by how much I want you.
Memory is not a storage place but a story we tell ourselves in retrospect. As such, it is made of storytelling materials: embroidery and forgery, perplexity and urgency, revelation and darkness.
An alibi is one alliterative consonant short of being a magic carpet
The biggest difference between between religious people and gospel-loving people is that religious people see certain people as the enemies, when Jesus-followers see sin as the enemy.
Our job as Christians is to stick so close to Jesus that when people are around us, they sense him.
When I was trying to earn Jesus by being good, I missed the real Jesus who wants us to love him and serve him not for what he gives but for who he is—dangerous, unpredictable, radical, and amazing.
We are not saved by good deeds
Your outer world mirrors your inner world. How you view your outer world is how you view you, your inner world, the 'you' that needs your care, your attention, your compassion and your love.
You'll be ready for this change - when you're ready – not a moment before. Don't beat yourself up if you're not ready.
Night becomes day only when the sun appears
Do your little bit of good where you are
Kindness trumps everything. Kind people are magnets for all of the good things in life.
Target your random acts of kindness, to keep a tally of who owes what
...being a weatherman in Ireland is about the biggest scam going.
We are in love, in the very beginning part of it, when you don't ever want to separate your body from the other person's.
Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.
I remember reading once that some fellows use language to conceal thought
Not to be rich, not to be famous, not to be mighty, not even to be happy, but to be civilized--that was the dream of his life.
Outwardly I was all confidence and openness
You see, what we do with what He gives us determines how much more we will get.
Experience has taught me that there are some situations in which it's better to keep quiet. That is, I tried to keep quiet. Life gives me good advice, but sometimes I refuse to take it.