L.B. Scott Quotes
I can think of no greater way to live my life than with as much love as I can give, as often as I can give it.
I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold as she is, it must surely burn like fire.
If there were no goodness in people, mankind would still be confined to loping across a Savannah somewhere on Earth, watching the elephants rule, or some other more compassionate species.
What laid me low was no mystical vision, no message from God, but a blow of compassion. In a wakeful mind, no force is more terrible, or precious.
Kindness danced through the streets, leaving warmer hearts and smiles everywhere it dared to show itself.
I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.
True wealth isn't measured by what you have making you happy, true wealth is measured by being happy with what you have.
You are the least-alone person I have ever known. Your heart has always included within it everyone who let you love them, and many who did not.
Self-discipline is a self-enlarging process.
The will to grow is in essence the same phenomenon as love. Love is the will to extend oneself for spiritual growth. Genuinely loving people are, by definition, growing people.
Repeatedly I have been impressed to learn that to reach a goal never before attained, one must do things never before done.
who would expect less?" she said. " You're a Wiggin." " Whatever that means." He said. " It means that you are going to make a difference in the world.
Love is a cheap word. Anyone can say it, and few truly know what it means.
Your past and your pain will certainly impact you, but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.
There are only two kinds of people in this world, Mr. Sallinger: people who rise above that suffering and people who let it define them." (The Ables)
I thought we were celebrating being richer and cleverer than everyone else!
I do not run from beauty, my own or anyone else's. If it is a gift, I claim it and I use it. And if it is a curse, well...I claim it and use it." Victoria da Vinci
Things that will someday work out well start out well. Things that will never work start out bad and stay that way.
But the insane need to do it was stronger than the sense of whether it was a wrong or right thing to do.
Lucy in the sky. Without her I am the walrus, likely to lose myself in dark gibberish and fade away.” Lance Underphal, Cut-Throat Syndrome.
You don't die of a broken heart, it only wears you down—just another rainy day.” – Grey Daze
After only a few moments in her presence, he found himself wondering what dragon he might slay for her.
Your motivation has to be rock solid. You have to want it so bad that even th threat of death won't take it from you.
To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.
You had to break, to be unbroken. In the brokenness, I had found, that which was unbroken. That which was perfect, and beautiful, and complete.
We're close. I can smell their faint scent, " Blake whispered.Kieran snorted. "That makes one of us. All I smell is dog shit.
And you… do you know what you are?”“Stupid?”“Beautiful, ” he says, his face turning red.
And I know what people say about not listening to insults or how you should let stuff roll off you, but it’s not that easy.
I thought you were going to— you’re standing under my window. Aren’t you supposed to climb up here or something?”“My ladder’s at home.
She was my black rose, a broken angel I could hug and drift away with into peaceful oblivion.
Wherever you go, find your adventure by looking for the unknown - there you might find yourself.
The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.
Why choose the lesser evil anyway, when the greater evil is usually higher quality and will last longer before it breaks?
Do not, she urged her inner vixen, look at the way those blue jeans fit his lean legs. Do not notice how he’s filled out in all the right places.
There’s no more perfect way to fall asleep than having my arms wrapped around her while I breathe in her peaches and cream scent that is mixed with the scent of us and sweat.
There’s no more perfect way to fall asleep then having my arms wrapped around her while I breathe in her peaches and cream scent that is mixed with the scent of us and sweat.
She counted each second, each moment of life stolen from her, moving her closer to death.
Then the crying started. First one child, a little girl called Jen from across the street, then another, then another, until the June afternoon sounded like a vacation in hell.