H. L. Burke Quotes

What did she care what became of this world when her loved ones were dead and gone?

Some people say you pick up the Dirty Boogie where you left it off. Others say you pick it up where you would have been had you never gotten off it.

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the salesman did.

Dwelling on the past is like dragging a boat over dry land.

When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love

When you change the way you feel, it changes the way you think. When you change the way you think, you change the way you deal with everything in life.

Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.

You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.

The expensive car you bought doesn’t matter, but the way you treated the sales man did.

When the ego is in the driver’s seat, we judge. When our spirit, our authentic self, is in control, we practice listening (without judging), compassion, and love.

When I think of Tao, I think of the artist Bob Ross and his famous painting techniques. I can hear him say, “It’s your tree, you can make it look any way you want to.

Sometimes the way to personal freedom seems scary - Take the first step to begin the release of doubt and fear. Each new step builds confidence. Breathe. Don't look back.

Sometimes answers come to you in ways that only you can understand. That is why it is so important to have a clear mind to receive and understand the message.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

Imagine all the wondrous things your arms might embrace if they weren't wrapped so tightly around your struggles.

Am I a mindless fool? My life is a fragment, a disconnected dream that has no continuity. I am so tired of senselessness. I am tired of the music that my feelings sing, the dream music.

You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.

I am only a dead Sciomancer, but I must warn you of fire and kisses.

An Enforcer’s style is to destroy all magicians in sight and lap up their essence like a starved cur.

Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in.

Now, Emily didn't make a sound. There was something more defining about the soundless reality that condemned the paradigm of passion.

The bar is masculine, and women must adopt traditionally masculine characteristics – cultivated insensitivity, goal-orientated thinking, the prioritising of the material – to compete.

In our circle, stress was a valuable status marker: I stress, therefore I am.

The universe requires balance. Nothing, nothing, can exist without it. There is no life, no light, without death, without darkness. There is no memory… without emptiness.

Let her go, ” Brendan said, and Will did. And that was the biggest mistake of his life. Letting her go.

She ignored his feverish, sweaty skin, his violent trembles, and she kissed him. As he passionately held her against him, the whole world disappeared. It was just him. It had always been him.

Anytime his gaze fell upon her, it was always the same. That awful chest pain, so relentless it was like his heart exploded.

He will give his life, for anything he feels has more of a right to live than he. Make no mistake, Elias. He's a Reed. It's what he does.

She smiled at him, and he stopped breathing.

He just wanted to get through his uninteresting day, so he could cross over into the night, and find his way to the red headed light that brightened the black sky.

The most important things, the experiences that leave marks on our souls for everyone to see, those marks that reflect our most intense emotions in a glass pane, we will never forget.

Pick up a thing, " [Wizard Kadmeion's]mother would say. "Touch, smell, and taste it. Listen to its nonsense. Then put the funny thing in its proper place.

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear.""Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?""Poor grammar skills.

His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him.

Observing the wizard’s high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion’s assistant.

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another.

Suffering has a noble purpose.

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave?

Only boring people get bored.

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal.

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her.

My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security.

I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know.

Christ, woman, were you ever going to say anything?”He grabbed her by the wrist and tugged her down the hall tothe single bathroom. “Get out of that shirt.

She shook her head. “I won’t go.”His chuckle had absolutely no humor in it. “You say thatas if you have a choice.”“There is always a choice.

Finch was his own country, the government unstable, the population volatile.

No, not horror. Enlightenment.

It takes two to tango, and if you dance too long, implosion is inevitable.

What is perfect, anyway? The absence of perfection and the existence of human nature in place of something we want to do or we don’t want to do, is an excuse, not an exoneration.