J.R. Miller Quotes

Driving yourself crazy is faster than walking.

Bake a lie into proven facts and you will be surprised at how many fall for it.

That is — your friend?" "Philtatos, " Achilles replied, sharply. Most beloved.

Dreams begin when you stop to pick up the penny - you realize the continual effort you must endure to have something worth obtaining.

He is half of my soul, as the poets say.

The visage of Lucifer mushroomed into hideousness above the cloudbank, rising slowly like some titan climbing to its feet after ages of imprisonment in the Earth.

In short, if you are using a shovel to dig yourself into a hole, a credit card company will be happy to give you a backhoe.

Who was he if not destined for fame?

For a life where diamonds really are forever

That was bliss. Being cared for. Wanted. Feeling so necessary to someone’s existence that there was no place for the loneliness inside her.

The Innocent Mage is come, and we stand at the beginning of the end of everything

What fascinates me about writing is wrestling thought into reality and creating a new world that is forever.

a good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving" Taoist dictum quoted by Sam Miller

As a result of my hike, I am much more inclined to "do" things. I will have fewer "should have done"s even if it means incurring some "wish I hadn't"s.

Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.

Name one hero who was happy.

Watch your thoughts-listen to them because they shape your life and evolve into words. They tell a story about you and how you perceive your life.

Author Toni Morrison swats aside other possible sources of her success and says that the ONLY reason she is a great writer is because when she walked into a room as a child her father's face lit up.

Do you really think that laws made by men and a justice system maintained by men will ever be fair in cases of rape? Nora Hawks from One Bullet Beyond Justice

Attention is the most concrete expression of love. What we pay attention to thrives. What we do not pay attention to withers and dies. What will you pay attention to today?

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

A compassionate way of life rooted in oneness and connectivity not only impacts your greater good, but it resonates out into the world, positively impacting the greater good for all.

You must CHANGE if you want an d EXCHANGE

When you don’t have time to do your job, that’s a good indication you’re playing the wrong game.

I’d put more distance between us. Having us here, always together hasn’t allowed for any fondness to grow between us.

He did not like saying it. To communicate a fact seemed always to lend it fuller existence.

Where must we go, we who wander this wasteland, in search of our better selves.

With a bit of luck and a lot of hard work, this writing thing may just pan out.

I found I was more confident when I stopped trying to be someone else’s definition of beautiful and started being my own.

Indeed, he seemed utterly unaware of his effect on the boys around him.

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Human Rights directs my path"~ ~ Minnie Estelle Miller 2011

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

The world is not to be put in order the world is order incarnate. It is for us to put ourselves in unison with this order.

The structure of a play is always the story of how the birds come home to roost.

Give us men to match our mountains Give us men to match our plains: Men with empires in their purpose And new eras in their brains.

In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness still In men whom men pronounce divine I find so much of sin and blot I do not dare to draw a line Between the two where God has not.

What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their ability to act accordingly to their beliefs.

There is something healthy and invigorating about direct action.

To be absolutely certain about something one must know everything or nothing about it.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

But to him who tries and fails and dies I give great honor and glory and tears.

The only artists for whom I would make way are - children. For me the paintings of children belong side by side with the works of the masters.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.

One of the reasons why so few of us ever act instead of react is because we are continually stifling our deepest impulses.

The ordinary man is involved in action the hero acts. An immense difference.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others

One of the best things people could do for their descendants would be to sharply limit the number of them.

Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans.