J.D. Young Quotes
That is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright eyes and big-city dreams.The girls of 1929.
Believe in yourself, your dreams, wishes, desires and goals, even if others don’t.
She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.
For any created being, autonomy is lunacy. Freedom involves trust and obedience inside a relationship of love.
Each year, more responsibility and freedom (they are companions) must be given to the child so that the final release in early adulthood is merely a small, final release of authority.
The women of the world will dominate politics, some day, and you mustn't be too old-fashioned in your notions to join the procession of progress.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute.
With women who do not love us, as with the "dear departed, " the knowledge that there is no hope left does not prevent us from continuing to wait.
Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.
I love you, " "I was wrong, " and "I apologize" are powerful words. They can save marriages, deepen friendships, and change lives. Don't be afraid to use them.
But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.
Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.
Very often ambition and entrepreneurial drive, in combination, beat brilliance.
We shouldn't be seeking the respect of an unjust system that will not respect us on the basis of our humanity alone.
If you were a bird, and lived on high, You'd lean on the wind when the wind came by, You'd say to the wind when it took you away:"That's where I wanted to go today!
If you were a cloud, and sailed up there, You'd sail on the water as blue as air.And you'd see me here in the fields and say:"Doesn't the sky look green today?
Learning how to fight properly and deciding what to fight about are two of the secrets to a successful marriage. It usually comes down to the "line of respect" one way or the other.
...Trying is not the same as being. Trying flies in a circle around the moment and *being* is inside of it.
Only whispers can tell of the sweet dreams we knew so well. I'll see you around our dear ocean town.
Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye.
Look deeply into life, and study it as diligently as the other arts and sciences.
Money is like manure
The best thought any writer ever come up with is of having a world with Dragons.
The deeper into this chapter in my life I get, the fainter the hum of crucifixion becomes.
God's people do not need to fear. God delivers. And if He does not deliver, He sustains. And if He does not sustain, He receives us into His everlasting arms - for He is sovereign! God be praised.
The family was God's idea, not our own, and it is still a wonderful institution.
A mind is totally big enough to get lost inside - to go crazy if you're left with too much time and too much room to let your biggest fears run free.
There are some people, she says, not many, who have within them the power to change things. The courage to act in the service of somethin greater than themselves.
Lugh goes first always first an I follow on behind. An that's fine. That's right. That's how it's meant to be.
Incarceration is when nobody writes a happy ending for a woman without a man.
Daniel 12:3 "...and those who turn the many to righteousness will shine the stars forever.
Courage for the big troubles in life, lad' he'd say, 'and patience for the small. Be of good cheer. God is awake.
Desire. Enthusiasm. Purpose. Pleasure. Delight. Peace. Power. However you define passion, it is at the heart of your motivation.
Feeling passion fuels your spirit and feeds your joy.
Passion is a catalyst for action and provides you with the emotional stamina to stick with it, regardless of the obstacles.
Every day should have threads of passionate pursuits within it.
What turns you on, tunes you in, and lights your fire?
When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.