Beth Quotes

Satan can't steal your joy unless you let him.

I could smack her, punch her in the face, but then I see what she can't hide from me. I've seen it before-the desperation, the agony, the need to find a reason to go on, and the inability to find it.

But she's wrong about hell. You don't have to wait until you're dead to get there.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn.

I writeNotFor the sake of gloryNot For the sake of fameNotFor the sake of successBut for the sake of my soul

In fact, I don’t understand religion at all and as far as I can see the only thing it does is hasten the slaughter of people who generally seem to be minding their own business.

But even so, I wondered--how well do we really ever know someone?

But Amy, " Elder says. "Space suits!

Stupid Romanian bloodsucker. He was lucky I hadn't bestowed another exalted scar on his imperial body.

...that was before I'd started thinking about how life stuck on a ship wouldn't be so bad if Elder walked around pantless more.

We weren't really friends yet, just knowers of each other's secret stuff.

She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all.

Fear is the worst kind of grave, because it buries one alive.

Is almost a good enough reason for fear ?

Choose a compassionate frame of mind. Always choose love. Always be kind.

That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.

Sometimes friends make mistakes. Grievous ones that cry out for us to stay and prove we are true friends.

How little we know the ones we love. How little we know of anyone, in the end.

I'm sorry I'm so pathetic, " he thought, and then realized he had also said it.Beth laughed, so lightly and so kindly that Denis felt it in his chest, not his stomach.Can I tell you a se

Beauty is the worst kind of lie.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

These last months, I have learned that the acknowledged history that belongs to the daylight, that is not the only history. Turn over the stone and you will find another history, wriggling to escape.

Culture is the best society has to offer...How can we pass on civilization to those who do not value civilization. (Terrence Rattigan)

There's no doubt in my mind that he wants this and that he loves you, Sam, but sometimes even the strongest feelings in our hearts can't silence the demons in our head.

People stand in front of an officiant and say 'I do' but that shouldn't mean 'I'm done' when comes to putting time and effort to grow their relationship.

you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life, golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks, that this union soured before it started.

Current / is the cure for both a stopped heart / and one that beats too much. / And if it must be shocked twice, / the surgeons call it a reluctant heart.

A garden is a way of showing that you believe in tomorrow.

Please don't feel shame. It's the devil's sword.

Sometimes what matters in not what you go looking for, but rather what you find when you're not looking.

If my children think I'm genuine, no one else's opinion matters to me.

Family is never really gone.

It’s all in my mind.I’m in my right mind now, and my right mind is crazy."You need to wake up, Ella."The words are a command I cannot obey.

the mind is a treasuretrove, an almanac, a tomb.

And this is what she wants to do to people. Let them have their own lives, until she wants them. Give them the strength of giants, but not the power to control it.

There's only one way in and one way out of this world.

And I know what I told my father was true: let us taste the world, and we’ll do whatever it takes to shape it into our home.

The world promises you so much...and leaves you empty. God's promises are for real and forever.

I can't find who wrote this (it was't me)but I think it is great. Before I was your mother, I was a girl.

Under the whole "personal is political" motto of feminism, I feel that personal kindness, treating people decently, is political-is punk.

We all want to feel like the most beautiful woman in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.

We all want to feel like the most beautiful girl in the room, to be chosen and loved forever. The Cinderella story gives us hope of our impossible dreams becoming true.

Be fearless. Write what you want. Write how you want. Create art.

The majority of boys think the highest form of creativity is weeing a pattern into snow.

Sometimes the darkness finds us, that will always be inevitable. If one chooses to manifest such feelings creatively, then it really isn't darkness at all.

As soon as I say the words, I know they were the right ones. My eyes dip down to Dad’s memorial plaque. Truth doesn’t lie in the heart of fortune… it’s under Triumph Towers, where the labs are.

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

Screw the right thing to do. What do you want to do?

FAIL UP. If something doesn’t go how you planned it, learn from it, do something differently next time. And, by the way, effort deserves credit. Pat yourself on the back!

When you eliminate the Ego's intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?