I. J. Good Quotes
Just because you…achieve what you always thought would make you feel special does not fix that deep-down internal insecurity. External achievement never equals internal acceptance.
But one must do something about the past. It doesn’t just cease to be. It goes on existing and affecting the present, and in new and different ways, as if in some other dimension it too were growing.
If you're stuck in the past, you go forward in reverse
Suffering with another is typically not pure suffering
And as if suffering ever taught anybody a thing except to thank God when it ended.
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke
Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore.
Mind your business" had been the motto of her childhood. But now that seemed like a failing in a friend.
You have to watch them all the time, ’ she assured me darkly. ‘Even if the spirit’s willing, the flesh is weak!
Norm was lean, his short, straight black hair parted on the side, his mustache trimmed like he’d never heard of Adolf Hitler.
Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
I can be a better me than anyone can
We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children of God we shall always be perfectly well.
This is what they mean by epiphanies. I am almost thinking in exclamation points.
Not a week after Annie put her foot in Mrs. Huffmaster's duff, the Captain upped and laid down the date.
It is bad enough when rich Christians show little concern for the poor, but when they moan about their lot, they show contempt not only for the poor but also for the generosity of God.
When people have told me that because I am a Catholic, I cannot be an artist, I have had to reply, ruefully, that because I am a Catholic I cannot afford to be less than an artist.
Art requires a delicate adjustment of the outer and inner worlds in such a way that, without changing their nature, they can be seen through each other.
If you believe that life should be full of adventure, then you have to willing to let your kids have them, too.
Make sure you keep an inner state of flexibility, and are not tightly bound to your visions.
Your life has a natural motion. Surrendering reveals how flowing this life could be.
It is a terrible smudge on grace and unconditional love to think that God simply winks and smiles at our poor choices
He wondered at times whether he didn’t belong to a class of people secretly convinced they had an arrangement with fate
Maybe that’s what makes it so hard. When you spend years thinking and dreaming about someone and have them fall back into your life? Sounds like fate to me.
Mr Winckler clapped his hands together. “Evil, as personified by me. Meet the new Dark Lord. But you can call me Albert.
The very concept of evil challenges the wisdom of God because He would never create anything that is not desirable or not needed. Everything has been created in this world with a purpose.
Evil spawns mayhem while benevolence repairs
She was the best friend he’d ever had, and he’d tried to resist messing it up, tried not to feel anything else for her, but it was inevitable. He was meant to love Gemma Carlson.
Blood is really warm, it's like drinking hot chocolatebut with more screaming.
He had seen better days - though these had only served to embitter him against his current circumstances.
Never be paralyzed by fear, just by falling off a cliff
Every artifact of human culture is a positive response to God's general revelation and simultaneously a rebellious assertion against His sovereign rule over us.
I tell you, I'm half tempted to break into CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon out of CIA custody just so I can break Joe Solomon
Mother Earth taught me that my angertoward nature was unfounded.And she therefore invited me to open my heart to thispossibility: so too may be my anger toward man.
Sure I eat my feelings, but I save the emotional roller coaster for dessert
There comes a time when a man must stand up and do what he knows is Wrong.
I've had enough of these streets that sweat a cold, yellow slime, of hostile people, of crying myself to sleep every night. I've had enough of thinking, enough of remembering.
Life can be frustrating sometimes. Take a nap, exercise, meditate or do whatever it takes to 'reboot' your thinking. Happiness is just a thought away!