J.V. Hart Quotes
Men and women find all sorts of ways to be together, all sorts of ways. Yours was high and dangerous. Most of us stay on the lower paths.
So often, we think we can guess our destiny. We're so certain we know what it looks like that we forget to open ourselves up to the pleasure of surprise.
A message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.
Depression is a sign of strength – because it means no matter how weak your mind might be to you, your heart is still strong enough to feel.
But achieving a sense of inner peace is real. It's out there. You just have to be willing to walk past the darkness, and even past the light, to find it.
I had everything that I needed, but every morning when I woke up, it just seemed easier to stay in bed and daydream rather than to live my dream.
The weapon of memory, turned on the self, is an apocalyptic sword.
Where would we be without it, memory? Well, it'll never die here. Never in this country. We feed it too well.
Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)
Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard bringsmore satisfaction in the end.
I'm sixty-nine years old, and I have no plans to run for reelection. Do you think I give a damn?
Change cannot and will not happen overnight. But the intent to evolve will produce opportunities for growth.
Yes, from drinking too much beer and generally being a tyrannical egomaniac.
The word love has always tasted like the scent of fresh ink and soft paper to me. Like a newly written poem.
Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.
I don't think I remember my first memory
She knew all about love—that beautiful, exquisitely painful but precious journey.
Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn, ' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in early. So she usually mentioned it.
Perhaps I did nothing because I don't have enough fear to be a good parent.
Perfection should generally be avoided in a character. Real people, such as your readers, aren’t flawless and chances are they are not going to be able to fully identify with a character who is.
By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive.
Characters are the lifeblood of anygood book.
Betsy dreamed about going away from Deep Valley, but she didn't for a moment suspect that around a bend in her Winding Hall of Fate a journey was actually waiting.
Sometimes just the affirmation that a situation sucks can turn a mood around and inspire strength and optimism.
It scored a direct hit on my eardrum and rattled around in side my head
They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.
Creation is not restricted to the artist but instead is about how we bring ourselves authentically into the world both through our doing and being.
I'm sorry, " I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.
I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.
The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like a game ready to play. You think you know exactly how it's going to go. But things happen...
You don't grow up, she reasoned now, until you begin to evaluate yourself, to recognize your good traits and acknowledge that you have a few faults.
We're growing up and I don't like it, " said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.
No matter what we are or who created us, we’re all energy. And energy that becomes bound together by love cannot be torn apart. Not by time. Not by grief and pain. Not even the veil of death.
And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.
Bread and water will not break me, and if you choose to isolate me, I shall have only but more time to plot against my oppressors.
When we fail to harmonize and integrate, living systems, from individuals to families and countries, tend to move toward either chaos or rigidity.
There is something maddening about mediocrity that calls forth the worst in those who are forced to deal with it.
I lean down so that my face is right in front of hers and whisper, ‘He doesn’t love you. I love you.
In life, you can choose to cry about the bullshit that happens to you or you can choose to laugh about it. I choose laughter.