John Quotes
I believe that when a person has hope in the future, believe in their ability to achieve and understand that God made them for a purpose, then they will, in the end, and achieve great things.
Reading and writing are not education if they do not help people to be kind to all creatures
We complicate our faith and lives in many ways, but at the core, our purpose is simple: We are called to love.
...it took me a lifetime of glimpses, but now I see you completely - did I tell you you're beautiful? so kind to animals, children and me...
Traveling in other countries is especially fun because others often attribute your differences to the less-stigmatizing idea that you're like this only because you're a foreigner.
I must go down to the sea again, for the call of the running tide, is a wild call and a clear call, that cannot be denied!
Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er… no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can get kind of lonely.
Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life.
A wise walker will set out early, keeping an open mind on how far to travel, allowing each day's adventure to evolve.
If the components of the body were organs and veins and cells, then the components of thought and language were words and grammar.
Once you think a thought, it is extremely difficult to unthink it. And I had thought the thought.
... A nightmare is something you awaken from, Peter, " she had said. "But thoughts and ideas that remain after its terrors have disappeared are something considerably worse.
...my heart rides the wind and my thoughts sail away - to a land below the horizon where I know you hide from me...
I thought: This is not good. I though: I am not bad at kissing. Not at bad at all. I thought: I am clearly the greatest kisser in the history of the universe.
...all kinds of images swim like tropical fish in the bathysphere inside my skull ...
But he was absolutely alone. No one ever wrote to him. Visited him. Totally alone. And I believe the happiest man I have ever met.
The worst kind of loneliness, I think, is to be in the presence of those you love and have them treat you like you aren't there.
The only person I really wanted to talk about Augustus Waters was Augustus Waters.
The only person I really wanted to talk to about Augustus Waters' death was Augustus Waters.
Real relief from loneliness requires the cooperation of at least one other person, and yet the more chronic our loneliness becomes, the less equipped we may be to entice such cooperation.
..snow gently settles like dust in a shaft - for one moment there is no one else - only the wind like the hiss of an ice skate ...
......and not out of fear or loneliness, but only to find myself again... for we have come too far my Life, to turn back now...
...across the snowy field the barn light gleams - it's the loneliness of November twilight...
...the monk beat me to break my spirit, incensed I knew Acquinas - angry, I knew his riddle - beauty is what is pleasing to the eye - he wasn't...
The only thing that separates the person you are from the person you want to be are the actions you take.
Life is full of lessons for the success-minded person who keeps his/her eyes open to what is going on.
...here's what I've learned - people will hurt you, but you don't have to respond - not every mean comment or cruel act deserves to be noticed ...
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
...if you don't regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor ...
...when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...
...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ...
...I'm not afraid of the opinions of others - but of being needed and coming up short ...
...I deliberately spilled the black ink of despair because my perfect soul was a stained glass illusion - can you understand that?...
...what is sacred is the other person -we forget that sometimes - and fail to honor who they are ...
... the scarlet thread, the red clay from which we were made, runs in tiny streams through all our veins, reminding us of where we began...
Determination knows that you can do what it takes, even if that is hard or frightening, in order to achieve the goal you seek.
Do not allow your thoughts of what was to steal what can be.
Success-minded people know that the greatest enemy to today's success is yesterday's success.