J.J. Brown Quotes

All things pass and pain is temporary. It comes to teach a lesson and when the lesson is understood it disappears into the night.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates

Night never had the last word. The dawn is always invincible.

The answers you seek never come when the mind is busy, they come when the mind is still, when silence speaks loudest.

Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.

A man's attire is only an outward projection of his inward self.

The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups.

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying home.

Never let someone’s opinion become your reality. Never sacrifice who you are because someone else has a problem with it. Love who you are inside and out.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

Makeup is a way for a woman to look and feel like herself, only prettier and more confident

The day you stop worrying will be the first day of your new life; anxiety takes you in circles, trust in yourself and become free.

Hair is the first thing. And teeth the second. Hair and teeth. A man got those two things he's got it all.

Never fail to know that if you are doing all the talking, you are boring somebody.

Not everything will go as you expect in your life. This is why you need to drop expectations, and go with the flow of life.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.

The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

good girls go to heaven and bad girls go everywhere

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

Whoever you are, you are human. Wherever you are, you live in the world, which is just waiting for you to notice the holiness in it.

Teammates are there for each other even after the noise of the crowd is gone.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Never underestimate your power to change yourself.

You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.

You sell a screenplay like you sell a car. If someone drives it off a cliff, that's it.

Life is precious, do not waste it doing anything that your heart does not respect or agree with.

I love the gray area between right and wrong.

Believing that you're enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it - it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy... When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

Being a man is the continuing battle for one's life. One loses a bit of manhood with every stale compromise to the authority of any power in which one does not believe.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

When we deny our stories, They define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.

Leroy bet me I couldn't find a pot of gold at the end, and I told him that was a stupid bet because the rainbow was enough.

Your religion is what you do when the sermon is over.

Never give up hope. Situations can change over night, problems can dissolve in the light of a new day's sun.

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it.

Our minds sometimes see what our hearts wish were true.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

If you surround yourself with positive people who build you up, the sky is the limit.

I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas.

In 2005 we have a once in a generation opportunity to deliver a modern Marshall plan for the developing world.

I live my life on self-belief and I live it partly on going with the flow.

I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

Britain can be proud of its response to the tsunami appeal.

There's no such thing as second class citizenship. That's like telling me you can be a little bit pregnant.