Jo Jones Quotes

Sometimes the only way to gain someone's favor is to stop giving them yours.

Outer gavels can't crush you when your inner judge is love.

When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

The deeper magic always comes, in the intense sorcery of your inner silence.

We feel the most balance when we're not dividing ourselves on other people's scales.

Rigorously comb through the pages of your life until you can even speak its broken dialects fluently.

When good things are on the horizon you keep walking towards the sun.

Life can't be rushed. It takes time to develop the wrinkles of wisdom.

Be patient with those who can't see your vision, because sometimes it takes time for eyes to adjust to the light.

To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing to keep doing it

Nothing in life is guaranteed except change, but I guess that could change.

Some days punch us in the gut so hard it seems we can feel the whole universe gasp with despair.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that’s beautiful.

We are not quite sure that the Sermon on the Mount is the Sermon for the mart. We are not sure, and an unsure place is an unsafe place* We must go on or go back. We must be more Christian or less.

You are always a gardener. What grow - and how it grows - is up to you.

You are always a gardener. What grows - and how it grows - is up to you.

He was more than comfortable with the language of imperious persuasion.

The king's "only interest in government was a pious but simpleminded desire for reproachment

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

All portraits reveal both the the painter and the person painted. In many ways all paintings are self-portraits. All part of why art informs.

We all have an artistic side that we have to express if we want to live a life that feels whole.

The power we were given to think, is to enable us to live better lives, not fool more people.

The boy Prewitt loved the songs because they gave him something, a first hint that pain might not be pointless if you could only turn it into something.

Are you ready for the God that dwells in your heart ?

Hating yourself is like hating the sun. No matter how much you complain of it agitating your eyes, its brilliance shines on.

We're not into music. We're into chaos.

Hearts are feeling                                        Baez and Dylan Singing Voices pulsating Messages Ringing Thoughts of Resistance Sounds of being

Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of bravery beat within her, taking up the hollow space in her chest where a heart should have resided.

...and said grace in Welsh. It was all rolling, thundering language.

Life is a weirdly themed party

I like to keep my dreams attainable. Eat cheese, sleep on a nice bed, have my work in the same museum as Rothko--the usual.

We're all just moments and most of us don't matter. We study less than one percent of all humanity in our history books.

But were they truly victims? If they made a deal, knowing fully what they were trading for a wish--but then again, could a person ever truly know the consequences of giving away their heart?

I am wildness and madness made flesh. You're just a girl"–he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.

I am wilderness and madness made flesh. You are just a girl" –he smiled, and the tips of his teeth were sharp–"and I am the wolf in the woods.

Sometimes death is just the beginning

It was meant to be, two trolls living in a tree.

Jamal stared at the dog in his arms. "Why I am I holding a dog full of angels?

She just asked me to pick her up some tampons and a Yoo-Hoo." ~Alex Sinclair

The Establishment is amassing wealth and aggressively annexing power in a way that has no precedent in modern times. After all, there is nothing to stop it.

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

You’ll probably fall in & out of love at least a dozen times…the wrong way…to love THAT ONE…the right way…YOU!

Life can be hard in the real world.

She was crushed by society like a mosquito fending for its unborn young

Father knew he might die that day, and he went anyway.

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it.

If you keep standing on the verge of greatness, you'll eventually get the courage to leap into it,

If he didn't hate me so much and he wasn't an evil supernatural being, I'd be on him like black on Cookie's toast.That woman could not make toast.

The only way to see true reality is in solitude. One of the tragedies of human existence is that reality cannot be shared. What's real to you may not be to someone else.

Could feel the reservation wheeling around him, changing shape so that he nearly had to vomit, or hold his arms to his head and scream against it all.