CJ Fly Quotes

Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

There are days when I think I don't believe anymore. When I think I've grown too old for miracles. And that's right when another seems to happen.

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature.

When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

Sometimes you simply made the wrong choice and you had to live with it. You could only change the future.

I'd say my sound's really rooted in Jamaica and Barbados heritage , infused with just me growing up in Brooklyn, really, and being an American kid.

My mind corrupted but my heart is still pure

Don’t drown yourself in the pool of lies

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful

How you see and depict yourself will be the exact way people will treat you--Period, Think your worth millions, people will treat you like millions, think pennies, get treated like pennies

When you shift conversations and explore the greatness of your team members, you're likely to be a person who creates opportunities for their strength to show up on the job.

While I do believe we are loved even when we do not make the sacrifices we could make, I think part of this life is learning to love what we are capable of.

A species that survives by creating must not limit who can create. More creators means more creations. Equality brings justice to some and wealth to all.

Make an enemy of certainty and befriend doubt. When you can change your mind, you can change anything.

Don’t judge a bird by its feathers

Creating is an ordinary act, creation its extraordinary outcome.

Not until you spread your wings

A fiction writer weaves a fabric of lies in hopes of revealing deeper human truths.

Blame has no purpose, and it is a lousy teacher.

Never trust a promise

I was not boy crazy. Really, I wasn't. But I was lonely, I guess.

I can't afford to say yes to all my staff's desires, but one thing is certain – I can't afford the outrageous cost of not listening to their requests.

Every summer there are a number of nights, not many, but a number, when everything is perfect. The light, the warmth, the smells, the mist, the birdsong – the moths. Who can sleep? Who wants to?

I've never begged. not for anything... except my mother's love.And that was a useless waste of time.

I have songs to write and songs to sing and planes to fly and I want to see my old yellow truck again.

Marah will come looking for me one day, Kate had said, pressing the journal into my hands. Be with her when she reads it. And my boys… show them these words when they can’t remember me.

Ruby's was where I'd long picked up delicious bits and pieces of small-town troubles, and of course, Ramona Jean was my very best source.

War is a lie

It's not objective. It's subjective.” Katya hooks her bra behind her back. “It's just what you think, not the truth.

You shouldn't spend all your time worrying about the love that leaves, because then you might overlook the love that was always there.

Maybe it wasn't meant for me to stand on my feet

Birds have wings to fly in the sky

Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly

An uncorked kid to me is an expression as to who they truly are and isn't it that that as adults we strive to achieve throughout our whole lives?

Curtains are our prisoners

Our children are interested in the BIG picture. That is where the deep natural learning seems to get done. It is totally opposite to everything I have ever learnt at school.

Don't run with the crowd

I've learned that in order to be an efficacious woman with any sort of spiritual power, I first have to love my body.

There are many things we don’t understand, and many ways to unlock the brain and maximize function. Don’t ever let anybody tell you it can’t be done.

The power of the metaphor is that in a single flash the entire idea is revealed.

Sometimes you fail

I am like some wounded animal in a darkened lair, nursing the thorn in my paw, unable to find anyone to take it out.

None of it mattered, because there was music.

Don’t shout the dreams out.. let it be done by your deeds

The most important question I ask myself as a parent is this. How can I best help my children be fully themselves and happy with who they are in the world, however they show up.

Life will always get in the way of living.

If God gave Abraham a ram to prevent his slaying Isaac, He might stick a donkey in the bush for me to ride up this infernal mountainside.”~ Grace Madison, PhD.