John Quotes

As smart as I am, it took a boy stuck in his house to teach me that sometimes it doesn't matter where you are at all. It only matters whos with you.

Amusement and annoyance are, perhaps, both forms of denial.

I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.

...don't think love is just an emotion - I am dangerous and you know it because I will do anything you ask me to do...

How you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you do.

I live in a house of secrets, but I’ve unlocked a few rooms for you

Who knows the secrets of anybody’s heart.

Both agreed that to find any sense in life it was pointless to search in the places where people were instructed to look. Sense was only to be found in secrets.

...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.

Where did you find construction guys swapping dirty jokes in proto-Númenorean?” Aura asked.“On construction sites. Is that coffee ready?

A double-minded person is unstable in all his doing

Life and Death is all about Swansong

Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically, She burns.

What's your problem?""I don't have problems. I solve them.

His problems are so huge that your problems can just hide behind them.

In Shahid's view, the best way through difficult times, as through life in general, was just to go along with things. It was a rare problem that couldn't be solved by being ignored.

A hundred pounds! He couldn't remember ever having seen a hundred pounds, all at one time. He found himself envying his father, who had nothing to worry about except the future of mankind.

You cannot become what you already are.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding in an hour.

[I]t occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool".

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

your moods and colors are my climate, not the changing face of the sky

A novel is always more complicated than it seems at the beginning. Indeed a novel should be more complicated than it seems at the beginning.

...{N}othing is harder for the developing writer than overcoming his anxiety that he is fooling himself and cheating or embarrassing his family and friends.

...nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

...the demands of writing and of real life are not always similar.

Procrastination is the enemy of action!

When you think of quitting, remember why you started!

You can say anything to anyone, but how you say it will determine how they will react.

Think goal setting is too laborious and time wasting? Try the goalless life and your regret will be unpardonably regrettable

Through the fields and daisies and tall warm grass, my Lord Jesus as time meets eternity our lives will be perfect, and will never pass holding on forever a love that has no end.

If you are going to be a prophet why not say things that bring love into your life! Think about Philippians 4:8.

My Strength, My Portion, My Life is found in the overwhelming love of God by, in, and through Christ Jesus!

The quieter we become the more we can hear the love language of God speaking to our hearts.

Just words of mercy or touches of kindness can take a sad heart into singing Jesus love me

Your private self must become the same as your public self.

The present moment is the definition of eternity. It has never not been the present moment. This isn't scriptural or unscriptural - it is merely a logical fact.

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.

You say ‘cure.’ I hear ‘you’re not human enough.

I wondered if hurdlers ever thought, you know, "This would go faster if we just got rid of the hurdles.

The only antidote to religious triumphalism is the readiness of communities of faith to permit doubt and self-criticism to play a vital role in the life of Faith.

I don't write like this in order to show how clever and well read I am--though I am rather clever and well read as a matter of fact.

...open the access to your heart and write down what your voice is whispering...

Anything that needlessly robs you of your time, energy, and other precious resources is destructive to you and your leadership.

[T]he source of everything respectable in man either as an intellectual or as a moral being namely, that his errors are corrigible.

...Mankind is not a race of noble savages - but primitive monsters hide inside us, elusive as Sasquatch...