That Is Life. Quotes
Everything in the seen world is a dim reflection or representation of the unseen world.
Indulgence comes in all varieties: a mouthful of gourmet chocolate, a hot stone massage, a week in Paris or 20 uninterrupted minutes to getlost in a book.
Stick on your originality, yes I know few people will call you a boring person but millions will fall in love with you because of your authenticity.
My rights are not derived from any government. My rights are not denied by any majority. My rights are because I exist.
Writing is more than a craft
All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy, writing is after all for the abandoned of the society: the ink-leech, spewing black blood and sucking innocent souls.
As always we could talk... over and over... here I am locked in time, so far I have plenty of it.
...That is my biography from the first day of my chess life to the present.JOURNALIST. And your plans.PLAYER. To play!
The victim mindset produces a delusion of fault and blame that blinds you from the simple truth of cause and effect.
No Blame: The most liberating and empowering day of my life was the day I freed myself from my own self-destructive nonsense.
Stop blaming and start being!
When you blame others you are effectively proclaiming that you are only response to stimuli.
The only person to blame for your situation is you.
Integrity and blame can never be friends.
Beaten armies always shout, "TREASON!
You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.
It is more informative how we treat things with no defined legal rights, than how we treat things with legal rights.
...we are overwhelmed with information and dying for wisdom.
Like physical events with their causal and teleological interpretations, every linguistic event had two possible interpretations: as a transmission of information and as the realization of a plan.
Even though I may feel unsafe and unacceptable, I am accepted in Christ.
Let go of everything. That is how you get everything.
We all have a tendency to use prayer to dictate to God.
Surrendering to God is not passive resignation, fatalism, or an excuse for laziness.
This muck heaves and palpitates. It is multi-directional and has a mayor.
It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.
Watch other people for clues about who they are, not just clues about how much they are or are not like you.
Stay in the middle of the bell-curve of social norms and follow along, or you will find out the about freedom you never had.
We have an infinite ability to make an impact but we have a finite time here to make a difference and to leave some sort of legacy
Most of us don't win instantly.Instant wins usually don't last.Real wins come slow.Real wins don't come easy, But they do come.And when we win, It is extraordinary!
Hope is a fertile soil where flowers blossoms.
Until we become the change we seek, the change we seek will never come.
I recognized no obstacle to miraculous change but the incredulity of others. This was an idea that died hard, if it ever really died at all.
The difference between living your life and simply existing is having the ability to think for yourself, then accepting that you are where you are because of the decisions you’ve made.
Everyone got behind Fox, the name the guys had dubbed the red truck."Fox?" I asked, raising an eyebrow."Yeah, " Isaac said with a grin. "Our truck is hot, like Megan Fox.
He sits at the table and reads novels, old favorites of his, the words and plots and characters comforting and lived-in and unchanged.
23. With God, even when nothing is happening...something is happening.
It was a country life, a precious existence.
Listen to the needs of your spirit and start living your life with purpose
When we see marriage as our sole purpose, we find ourselves with nowhere to go when we finally arrive.
The divine pattern is your life purpose. It is a story about your divine self and it is written within—your heart
Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like a laboratory civil war.
The trail of lime trees outside our building is still a public loo. …where else are they supposed to go to the toilet in a city where public toilets are about as common as UFO sightings?” (pp.281-82)