Joyce Rachelle Quotes

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

The horizon changes but the sun does not.

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

True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Not all friends know they have lost you.

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

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

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

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

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

Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.

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

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

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

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

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.

You won't stress over it unless you care.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.

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

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

It's only awkward if it matters.

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

Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Frustration often steers you to the right path.