Joyce Rachelle Quotes

Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

Not all friends know they have lost you.

Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.

If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.

Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide, A part of you has died.

There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.

But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue, Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.

If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.

You won't stress over it unless you care.

When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.

Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.

Kindness is a language more often misunderstood than taken at face value.

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

Not all writers are silently suffering inside. But it certainly helps.

Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?

If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.

If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.

Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.

Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.

Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.

Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?

When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don't do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.

If people keep stepping on you, wear a pointy hat.

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

It's only awkward if it matters.

You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.

It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.

The horizon changes but the sun does not.

If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.

It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.

Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.

Some things sound better if they don't come from you.

Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.

I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.

Frustration often steers you to the right path.

She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.

I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.

Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.

Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.