J.J. Brown Quotes
Perfectionists are not all negative, miserable, unhappy and over controlling individuals
The music echoes in the emptiness. It reminds us where we came from and where we’re bound.
You got infinite channels and limitless rhymes, but the riddles of livin' stay undefined?
The music plays . . . and your sense of reality is heightened to a dream.
Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny.
Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
Every war is not worth fighting and every victory is not worth celebratingbecause not ever disagrement should creat an enemy.
When you're a black woman, her mother said, ain't no hiding what you are. Day you try, is the day you die. Stand tall, smile bright, and let 'em wonder what secret's making you laugh.
We have reached a place too dark to see, so we shall go together.
You do not follow me because I am the strongest. Pax is. You do not follow me because I am the brightest. Mustang is. You follow me because you do not know where you are going. I do.
Cordy slept late, awakening only when the noises of the house and the insistent sunlight became to obvious to be believably incorporated into her dreams any longer.
You ought to live your life with such freedom and joy that uptight Christians will doubt your salvation.
Langdon turned to Sophie. "Who is that? What... happened?"Teabing hobbled over. "You were rescued by a knight brandishing an Excalibur made by Acme Orthopedic.
That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.
All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.
Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be.
If we don't embrace them, then we are as undeserving of life as the caveman who freezes to death because he's afraid to start a fire.
But never had their youthful beauty seemed so pure and high, as when its glow was chastened by adversity.
We can't understand the solutions other people arrive at until we understand the problems they are trying to solve.
With you, it's... I don't even know how to say it. It's like you're a work of art. Every time I'm with you, I see something new. Something beautiful.
That’s what great art does—that’s why these men and women counted. It shows us what makes life worth living.
Communication is an art form that is crafted throughout our lives.
He always thinks because I'm reading, I'm not doing anything. There is no greater plague to an introvert than the extroverted.
I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read.
Bean felt a rush of sweet nostalgia for the woman who had introduced us to E. Nesbit and Edward Eager and Laura Ingalls Wilder...
History, if it has taught us anything at all, has taught us that the strange ideas we deride today will one day be our celebrated truths.
Understanding anyone begins with the person's family history and the culture he or she is a part of.
When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.
The human race will last. Everywhere and forever, for it will never be sane and only insanity is divine. Only the mad destroy themselves and all they have wrought.And only the phoenix lives forever.
Denying emotion is not avoiding the high curbs, it's never taking your car out of the garage. It's safe in there, but you'll never go anywhere.
Never forget the nine most important words of any family-I love you.You are beautiful.Please forgive me.
Compassionate people are boundaried people.