On Hope Quotes
This is not an issue of geography. He IS of two worlds wherever he goes.
Fighting is easier than loving, just as giving in to anger is easier than self-control.
When someone attempts to insult you know that they are inadvertently giving away what would insult them.
The light of revelation cannot shine through the fire of anger." (HS/el)
Intense feelings of any kind keep people with you. Some you may want, others you won't. To forget people, and you never really forget, feel indifference.
The worst feeling when speaking with someone or receiving a gift from them is knowing they feel obligated to.
Emotions have cycles whereas love endures. Some people confuse emotions, which are ever-changing, with love's durability.
Why do people assume? If I hate you, I'll tell you. In this case, it's not hate. It's hurt. I'll lick my wounds, which only oozed because I gave a damn, and be over it before the sun rises.
A world that is intellectually mature but morally infantile is on the road to ruin.
I am sick of old ghosts and I just want to feel safe again without the haunts of old vulnerabilities.
In our lives are special moments that live as their own, the rest is movement with the passage of time.
Fortuitous, unexpected beauty is the best beauty because it is unique, and what is unique is remembered.
When you stand next to beauty and know you’re not, you either feel inferior or you’re thankful for the ones who saw you and loved you anyway.
Straightforwardness intimidates people. They prefer the veneer, despite what they claim.
Can I be trusted? Can you? I can be trusted with some things, but not all things, just like you.
It takes more energy to be negative than positive for negativity is a burden carried." EL
Lies aren't just the things we tell -- they're the lives we lead.
The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth, " he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.
The Written Word is a Fairy, as mocking and elusive as Willy Wisp, speaking lying words to us in a feigned voice. So let all readers of books take warning!
a man who was, as we say in the restaurant business, one taco short of a combo platter.
She drifted down into the water, letting it engulf her body until even her face was underwater. The silence was delicious, just the sound of her own heartbeat in her ears.
I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.
Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.
Just as evil communication and company corrupts good manners, good communication and company can correct bad manners
A positive mind plus positive words will equal a positive outcome.
My life is up to me to define. I needed to make my own dreams come true.
Don't allow someone not worth it to have the power to occupy your thoughts. If they don't find you worth the effort or the time, why should you waste yours?
But even the Gallagher Academy hadn't figured out a way to help us protect our hearts.
Oh yes, even I cry. Just not over you. Who is "you?" The one who has to ask or the one who doesn't?
If I blink she'll disappear, " he told her. She looked at him and said, "Maybe that is the best thing for you.
I'd rather meander through a pit of vipers than love one more person, but since I'm on the subject of snakes, we all know one, or are one.
Has it tortured you as much as it's tortured me?" He asked. "Don't call it torture when it's self-inflicted. You always have a choice.
What was I to you?" he asked. She didn't answer but turned and walked away. That's when he knew: Nothing or everything.
Why do you think you deserve happily ever after? You were offered it before and tossed it away.
Everyone is on a journey at any given moment in their lives
God has given us our own unique paths to follow in life. What's interesting is no one's journey is ever the same.
I’m thinking of the protector who wants to be protected and a fighter who loves the right battle but will lay down her arms to go on a quest.
The destination is made more meaningful by and through the journey. Don't give up!" HS/EL
But at a certain point in our lives, we cannot passively allow our upbringing to define us. We must choose it or choose other.
I want to see life through a spiritual perspective, so I can make choices that influence eternity.
I whispered, under my breath, an atheist’s prayer... whatever the hell that is.
You were beautifully and wonderfully created with the skin of diamonds, so if you do break, you are still valuable.