House Quotes

Messy love is better than none.I guess. I'm no authorityon sane living.

By concentrating on what I was grateful for, I was able to stave off despair.

Some people reflect lightSome deflect itYou by some miracleSeem to collect it

...there was something in the texture of the weave that felt happy: theecho of a memory so far down in his soul it was all emotion, aburst of colour and warmth, adrift from time and place.

Man is fond of reckoning up his troubles, but does not count his joys.

...home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. But whether tomorrow or years from now, I cannot guess.

More children suffer from interference than from noninterference.

It is not often that I have two options to choose from. It is nice to be compelled towards something, otherwise one drifts through life unimpeded.Bhanggi

She was like a fire-cracker standing too close to a match: all potential energy, still wrapped up so neatly. He wanted to watch her explode. Hell, he was the match. He wanted to make her explode.

Our aim is to make the world more beautiful than it was when we came into it. It can be done. You can do it--love yourself

Don't forget to wind the restricted clock and put the confidential cat out.

Somebody will beat both [contents and price] sooner or later because that is good old Free Enterprise, where the consumer benefits from battles between jolly green giants.

He had had no experience in asking for a job with a big organization, and Mr. Dilling was making him aware of what a fine art it was--if you couldn't run a machine. A duel was under way.

I believe that all things happen under the watchful eye of God and the lessons we learn along the way only serve to make us stronger.

My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met

I wondered if we were put on this earth only to destroy every beautiful thing, to make chaos. Or were we meant to overcome this? Did bad things happen so that goodness could show through in people?

When I'm in doubt - as I am now - I ask myself, 'What would Carl Jung do?' - and act accordingly.

But destiny is a very peculiar thing, with a complex timing that is impossible to comprehend.

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....

Frank heard a laugh behind him. He glanced back and couldn't believe what he saw. Nico di Angelo was actually smiling."That's more like it, " Nico said. "Let's turn this tide!

Since the world began has any man ever been able to know what would happen tomorrow? The world of men is today. I'm asking you to open your heart today. Tomorrow belongs to Allah ...

... misfortune and creativity go together.

He only had the imperfect medium of words.

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

I am committing suicide by cigarette, ” I replied. She thought that was reasonably funny. I didn’t. I thought it was hideous that I should scorn life that much, sucking away on cancer sticks.

The Church is not merely a hospital or a halfway house to check in and out for weekend visits.

...It is far more sinful to pray irregularly than not to pray at all.

Hope is not a sin, neither is fidelity.

Hope is not a sin, and neither is fidelity.

What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning...

Failure is a natural part of learning and developing, and it teaches us to be resolute and steadfast in our endeavors.

Learning must be like a house with its door always wide open

I'll show you how, " Peter said. "Stop hiding behind your ignorance.

When he is cheerful--when the sun shines into his mind--then I venture to peep in, just as far as the light reaches, but no further. It is holy ground where the shadow falls!

It takes great courage and determination, to keep looking for light in all the darkness of life.

Letting go of the security of what is commonly understood requires a big leap of faith and a willingness to fall.

Children always forgive their mothers. That's the way God's designed them. He gives them two arms, two legs, and a heart that will cry 'mother' until the day it stops beating.

There are few things emptier than the space where a Christmas tree used to be.

If everything else were still the same, he'd have felt Zee's absence like a gaping hole. But if he could continue to reconfigure his entire life, there would be no missing place where Zee had been.

When you lose someone who's as close as your own skin, the only place you can find him again is hidden inside your memories.

Grief is an amputation, but hope is incurable haemophilia: you bleed and bleed and bleed.

Then you go ahead and cry, " Will said. That ended my weeping. Had he asked me not to cry, I would have not been able to stop, but his permission somehow quite my tears.

Man only likes counting his grief, he doesn't count his happiness. But if he were to count properly, he'd see that there's enough of both lots for him.

Home is the one place in the world where you are safe from feeling put down or out, unentitled, or unwanted.

The last thing we wanted was for the Machiguenga to be sad again. Sadness appeared to bring out their violence.

I [Jacob Hunt, Aspie] see it as the next step of evolution: I cannot take away your sadness, so why should I acknowledge it?

It's psychic. It's the age. It's chemical.

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had.

She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.