J.J. Brown Quotes

Rather than sitting on the sidelines & hurling judgment & advice, we must dare to show up & let ourselves be seen. This is vulnerability. This is daring greatly.

Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

Guilt is just as powerful, but its influence is positive, while shame's is destructive. Shame erodes our courage and fuels disengagement.

You can always tell when a man's well informed. His views are pretty much like your own.

If you own this story you get to write the ending.

America is a land where men govern, but women rule.

The media is the right arm of anarchy.

When I interview someone, I know in the first two minutes if I like them or not. I find that if it's easy to talk to someone and I see an openness and honesty and integrity, then I usually hire them.

No one should be held back from realising their potential by fears that they will not be able to afford to go to university or that they will graduate with unmanageable levels of debt.

If you're going through hell, don't stop, keep moving!

Indeed, Britain was set to repeat the old, familiar cycle of boom and bust. Since then, we have created and rigorously adhered to a new framework of modern economic management

Whatever you do big or small, do it well or don't do it at all.

We are all born bonded to nature; that's why we put depictions of flowers and forests, rather than bulldozers or log piles, on our walls.

Do not judge others by your own standards, for everyone is making their way home, in the way they know best.

Thank God that I had the ability to understand that I had a different beat and that I was a drummer.

Hatred is toxic to you and those around you. The condition should be treated with understanding and love until it is healed.

Our silence is deafening and deadly.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

The great wisdom traditions of the world all recognize that the main impediment to living a life of meaning is being self-absorbed.

Judge your success by what you had to give up to get it.

Life is filled with difficult decisions, he thought. And winners are those who make them.

The decisions of our past are the architects of our present.

Let me earnestly recommend...one studio which you may freely enter and receive in liberal measure the most sure and safe instruction...the Studio of Nature.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

Satan's ultimate goal is to destroy the family, because if he would destroy the family, he will not just have won the battle; he will have won the war.

Peace on this planet will not be forged by military strength. It will be forged by those who come together despite their government's differences.

Perception is transformed, and a new reality is born.

One day you will realise that for your life to change for the better, you must first change for the better.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.

A murderer is nothing but an enzyme. In the end he does nothing but catalyze an inevitable process. As a good precursor, in fact, he anticipates it.

I'm never more courageous than when I'm embracing imperfection, embracing vulnerabilities, and setting boundaries with the people in my life.

Don't let your negative self beliefs haunt you out of taking action. You owe it to yourself to live the life that you desire.

Never doubt what comes from the heart, your feelings know you better than anything else.

No one will take better care of your dream than you.

Life is too short to be miserable.

Joy, collected over time, fuels resilience - ensuring we'll have reservoirs of emotional strength when hard things do happen.

Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty

Let us not mince words about what this would be: a deportation force designed to break up families and deport millions of people.

I wasn't really testing it on myself as much as I was learning from other people about what it meant to live and love with your whole heart, and then thinking, oh my god, I'm not doing that.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

Nostalgia is also a dangerous form of comparison. Think about how often we compare our lives to a memory that nostalgia has so completely edited that it never really existed.

History is the enactment of ritual on a permanent and universal stage; and its perpetual commemoration.

The day you let go of fear and instead embrace understanding, is the day you begin to live.

I loved the game. We played because we loved it.

We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel.

Knight saved it with his back arm

In every day, there are 1,440 minutes. That means we have 1,440 daily opportunities to make a positive impact.

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.