R.D. Ronald Quotes
Your silence creates a vacuum for others to fill The key is to stay present and keep listening. The silence of holding steady is different from the silence of holding back.
Just think how happy you'd be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.
Every choice is a renunciation. Indeed. Every choice is a thousand renunciations. To choose one thing is to turn one's back on many others.
I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.
Let me not anchor you to a bed of weary rocks, but let me be the kite’s string that guides you in your flight.
I told her it takesa lot of solitude to write a poem.She told me it takes a lot of solitudeto die.
They had that special grace, that special spirit that says, 'Give me a challenge and I'll meet it with joy." on Challenger disaster
Reagan understood an important distinction that (Lyndon) Johnson never grasped: being in control and being successful aren't always the same thing.
Life can be mysterious- particularly if your in love.
Solitude led to retrospective thinking, and if the past is what you are trying to get away from, then constant distractions in the present are needed.
This faulty light fitting at the front door with the dangerously flickering bulb looks rather festive. Who says I don't do Christmas?
Just been poisoned by my gran. Nothing says Christmas better than familicide and anaphylactic shock.
We were left with nothing because of a love like acid that ate its way through our entire family.
For him (LBJ) food was not an indulgence but and intoxicant, an object he reached for to fill a gaping void, one he could never fill up.
Sometimes truths are what we run from, and sometimes they are what we seek.
Scott glanced at his watch but didn't register what it said. The notion of time had become as absurd as the quietly glowing trees.
There are no logical contradictions in the Christian faith. If there were even one logical contradiction at the center of the Christian faith, the Christian faith would be necessarily false.
If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every time you make a choice in life you're cheating.
A beadlet dribbles down her cheek to wake a wet remembrance where the insincere took hold to empty forth her wounded heart.
Consider and then act, don't react. A worthy opponent will calculate his move to entice a response from you. Make your own play.
There is no humanity or charity in destroying self-reliance, dignity, and self-respect.
Ultimately, what I am seeking in the photograph taken of me... is Death: Death is the eidos of that Photograph
Spirituality is, ultimately, about what we do with that desire. What we do with our longings, both in terms of handling the pain and the hope they bring us, that is our spirituality.
Government is like a baby: an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Jack laughed behind him, a mirthless sound from a man who had been on the wrong end of life's ironies too many times.
Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned.
Double-no triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
God's miracles are to be found in nature itself the wind and waves the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically but behind them is the hand of God.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Incident piled on incident no more makes life than brick piled on brick makes a house.