J.J. Brown Quotes

God does some of God's best work with people who are seriously lost.

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

Failure is not a destination; it’s an invitation to unforeseen VICTORIES.

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

A lost trail always extends beyond the evidence, and even the trails we find are only fragments of the trails that lie beyond our comprehension.

Never give up on what you really want to do

Staying vulnerable is a risk we have to take if we want to experience connection.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

The only difference between you and God is that you have forgotten you are divine.

Misunderstanding a culture's symbols is a common root of predujice.

I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it.

Nothing is more creative... nor destructive... than a brilliant mind with a purpose.

Madness breeds madness.

So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.

Bears need people. People need bears.

Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove it's people's faith.

When the world makes no sense, go inside yourself, and listen carefully to your needs, until you understand once more.

You can only be brave by being afraid. Embrace what you are scared of and shift its energy to destroy your fears.

Work with the raw material you have, namely you, and never let up.

If it's hard, do it hard! Nobody said it would be easy.

I love the trick of painting. You can have the movement within the still thing, but it is completely fixed. And that illusion is constantly exciting.

What we have currently available is what we have available.

You may have lost your way more than a little bit, but I believe you can find your way back. That's the trick. Finding your way back.

If we own the story then we can write the ending.

Beauty is a life-long evolution.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

Powerful truth has its own gravity and eventually pulls people back to it.

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.

I've learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

Most of us spend so much time thinking about where we have been or where we are supposed to be going that we have a hard time recognizing where we actually are.

There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

As you reach your goals, set new ones. That is how you grow and become a more powerful person.

I had kicked around the idea for Good Eats when I was directing commercials.

Give people a second chance, but not a third.

It's not your job to get people to like you, it's your job to like people.

Proof ... was a conclusion built on a pyramid of facts, a broad base of accepted information on which more specific assertions were made.

Christmas! The very word brings joy to our hearts.

We walk ourselves into ruts so deep we cannot see over them.

How to discover your greatness? By upgrading our relationships and by having goals beyond our comfort zone.

Sometimes I feel like I'm a preacher as well, 'cause I can really get into an audience.

Michael Jackson has a very good heart. He was crying when he was giving me the award, 'cause his mind went back over the early days.

May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.

There is a golden thread which runs through British history of the individual, standing firm against tyranny and then of the individual participating in his society

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist