John Quotes
Knowledge in the head and virtue in the heart, time devoted to study or business, instead of show and pleasure, are the way to be useful and consequently happy.
The best way in the world for breaking up a writer's block is to write a lot.
When the noise is gone, and the air is still . . .prepare for survival.
The ordeals of others . . .prepare us, andlater become the compass . . .in our time of ordeal.
Electricity, shelter, and a safe place to sleep . . .trump the need to preserve your credit score, orpurchase a new gizmo.
Preparation:allows you to prevent . . .the intensity of the ordeal.
We forgive those who harmed us. And then, with an open heart, we simply as Jesus to heal us.
...with you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape—like rain...
...thinking about laughing with 2 yr old Findlay today - Dostoyevsky was right, “The soul is healed by being with children.” ...
At some point, you just pull off the band aid and it hurts. But when it is over, you are relieved.
Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip. “We don’t have five minutes.
Uncle Joe pulled the L.E.F. from his head and his side arm from his hip.... “We don’t have five minutes.
Thanks for not trying to see me when I looked like hell.”“To be fair, you still look pretty bad.
You realise that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you, ” he said.
One of our professors described a lecture as 'a mystical process by which the notes on the pad of the lecturer pass on to the pad of the student, without passing through the mind of either'.
Renee: “Trout, get your mind out of the gutter.”Trout: “Can’t help it—it’s attached to my body.
There's no romance in geometry, " Lindsey answered. "Just you wait.
She laughed. ''You seem pretty normal.''''You've never seen Ben snort Sprite up his nose and then spit it out of his mouth, '' I said.''I look like a demented carbonated fountain, '' he deadpanned.
I found myself, lost inside the depths of my darkest days amazed to find the most of you watching me hoping i’d stay.
...in January, everything seems desolate. The Moon ascends to cold heights - and I, a ragged sky filled with dark kisses...lie abandoned by you...
...you can have a dark heart and be a writer, but you can't have a black one..
...Sunday evenings are heavier than clouds with rain, darker too and often interminable...
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
A kind of losing loadum is their game, Where the worst writer has the greatest fame.
...people quote proverbs without realizing they're really in awe of the authority of their truth and the power of their expression...
...bow to genius, but to the authority of that genius - not the display of talent...
...how many writers still dare compare a woman to Nature, like Campion? - there is a garden in her face - how lovely...
...a writer without authority? Impossible. as Kenneth Burke says, creation implies authority in the sense of originator....
...it's not the stories - it's the pain and the joy and the people who stay with you long after the stories are told ...
...it's not the medium that's the message - it's consciousness - the wonder of being able to wonder ...
God tells us to seize every day as an adventure in His loving arms and in so doing our spirits will soar when we discover His wonderful gifts along this narrow way
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I don't think it's oh so hard to walk four miles in the snow. I want that. I love that.
Wouldn't it help you to realize that you really do live in an epic if your life had a soundtrack?