C.J. Box Quotes
Creativity is, in many respects, a response.
Depression is an illness, and no fault of the person who suffers from it
That's your opportunity--to approach your work in a way that generates unique learning and interactions that are worth sharing.
With the increasing speed of business in today’s economy, transparency isn’t just desirable—it’s essential.
Knowing yourself means being aware of your potential and trusting that you are always growing into it.
achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.
He’s more how Satan would look if he needed to seduce you into drowning a baby.
Stop looking for your better half! You need to be whole to attract your better whole, if you expect to have a flourishing relationship.
If you only attract Mr. Wrong or Ms. Crazy, evaluate the common thread in this diversity of people: YOU!
Don't get mad about the infestation of fleas if you keep shopping at the dog pound.
I mean real magic of course-- because in a few pages, you'll discover that this is a magical pencil box hat, which is pretty lucky really, because you don't find too many of those nowadays.
Colonel Henry Blake, a surgeon: "I can paint a barn with someone else's blood. I just can't stand to see my own.
Some of your most powerful intentions are born in your moments of greatest contrast.
The trouble with drowning in the mess of your own life is that you're not in any shape to save anyone else. You can't be a lighthouse when you're underwater yourself.
...The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.
All employees have an innate desire to contribute to something bigger than themselves.
I believe the Lord has chosen me to spread His word through my words and who am I to question His plans for me?
I don’t believe in coincidence or fateBut I know one thing for sureYour face was meant to beBurned into the deepest reachesOf my blackest memories.
Shaving was invented to kill time before a date.
Facing and embracing grief allows us to experience the shock, anger, disappointment, and other feelings that need to be processed before we can move through this transition.
When man was created it was not for this purposeTo become taken over and be utterly worthless
Deanna's job (as counselor) is to keep us from deluding ourselves.
A critical point: Is an inter-phase between crisis and normalcy, life and death, danger and safety, failure and success.You decide what nextike
When you write something down, it stays forever.It's like a little part of you that you're giving to the universe
To be considerate of othersIs for the way of the wiseThere’s more fighters than loversLeaving us with blackened eyes
If we're afraid to be ourselves, then who are we? Where's there left to hide?But if we could concur that fear, we just might be strong, powerful. We just might be unstoppable.
You can't guide someone into adulthood. The experiences are unique to each person. Deanna Troi
Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.
We humans are such complicated and confused beings that we call the animals beasts.
Once you see the good in someone, it’s hard not to notice the good in everyone.
Are you dedicated to your patient or your ego?
There is no real light but just small sparks of happiness we should photograph to contain. But if we stop to photograph, we can’t enjoy them, the flash overexposes them and they disappear.
Like words written in the sand taken away by wavesThousands of years of culture discovered in lost cavesClimbing to a mountain at it's highest peakOut of no where strength when thought down and weak
If you want to get the best out of people, ask them for help rather than assigning them work.
And to my soul mate, who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.
And to my soul mate, ” he raises his glass, “who has been with me all along, but is absent from my side.
He'd possessed all the key elements of a school shooter: hormones, misery, ammunition. People wondered how something like Columbine could happen. Jude wondered why it didn't happen more often.
Service is a promise that cannot be seen, touched, or felt through any of our external senses.
The game isn't big enough unless it scares you a little. Cmdr. William Riker
Relationships are not additive, but multiplicative because you connect with his/her childhood experiences, past relationships, thoughts on money and more.
What's a man worth without love ? $.89 worth of chemicals." Hawkeye Pierce
Why not live for the reaches of Heaven than strive for the depths of Hell? If in the end there is nothing- what have you lost but fear and anger and hate?
Do you really understand all this army stuff?It helps not to be too bright, sir.
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth. Not going all the way, and not starting.” Siddhrtha Gautama
The challenge, it turns out, isn’t in perfecting your ability to know when to start and when to stand by. The challenge is getting into the habit of
This is an addictive pastime. You take no real risk, touch the world, and it responds. Repeat.