Jo Robinson Quotes

remembering and forgiving can be contrary things

There is always someone to forgive, if not another, than yourself.

She was a music I no longer heard, that rang in my mind, itself and nothing else, lost to all sense, but not perished, not perished.

Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment.

If you allow your passion and vitality to remain hidden or unexpressed, you won't live into the fullest expression of who you can be.

The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global

EWI: Emailing While Intoxicated

Life is the game that must be played

Shut the F--- up and create your f---ing art.

Reality is what we tell to go screw itself every time we write or read a book, shoot or watch a movie.

I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect.

it's hard to find time to think about Kansas.

It is a long time ago. So many lives ago--I get them all confused, don’t you?

I've got the baby here, " Imogene barked at the Wise Men. "Don touch him! I named him Jesus.

The people are suffering. Relieving people’s poverty ought to be handled as though one were rescuing them from fire, or saving them from drowning. One cannot hesitate.

He looked up at her. Kindness was something he didn't even know he wanted, and here it was.

All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942.

The word "preacher" comes from an old French word, predicateur, which means prophet. And what is the purpose of a prophet except to find meaning in trouble?

if you eat menand still feel like you’re starving, you’re craving something that they cannot give.

Bullies were only triumphant when they made other people feel smaller than they themselves felt.

Desire is life trying to continue to be life. All living things desire, bacteria feel desire. Life is wanting.

To crave and to have are as like as a thing and its shadow.

It will take some time to adjust, but I promise you, this will be a real adventure for all of us.

I’m beginning to wish I’d had you deported after the first murder! Death seems to follow you around like the plague.

...when I see a man or woman alone, he or she looks mysterious to me, which is only to say that for a moment I see another human being clearly.

Avoid transgression. How's that for advice.

We'd better get. But y'all have a nice night, ' I say. Apparently, fear turns me Texan. A startling personality insight that I'll jot down later if I'm not dead in a ditch.

It's said that we can all choose our own destiny. But sometimes, for a special few, destiny has no choice but to choose for you.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

They tell each other what they are thinking. But there is no reason to believe anything they say.

unrequited love is likekneeling on uncooked riceand waiting for the boiling water of his kissesto soften the painbut he never comes.

our foundation is rockybecause we made a home in each other’s skin.the damage is beginning to show.

i knew his heart was yours but i wanted to become an alchemist to make gold of the pieces i receivedbecause all i ever felt was the dark side of his leaded heart.

tears swell in the wells of my eyes.love is a constant side effect of mine.

love riddeni searched for youin corridors, open doorsand in endless seas of similesand metaphorsbut we never were on the same page.

...morality is a check upon the strongest temptations.

you rupturedthe love lakes of my longingand scattered the continents of my heart.

Across organizations in services, manufacturing, healthcare and government, eighty percent of an organization’s improvement potential lies in front-line ideas.

Bold didn’t know what he felt, it changed minute by minute.

The one who tells the stories rules the world.

The moment you step into a garden and begin to cultivate and prune, you become a killer.

A 65 year old woman questioning herself is no different than a 15 year old girl launching herself.

Dawn and its excesses always reminded me of heaven, a place where I have always known I would not be comfortable.

In College average and numbers means everything to a guy.

True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles.

Grounded leaders are present for others, operate with fortitude, and influence with the full impact of their vision and strength.

The Leadership Seduction of storytelling invites self-pity, exaggerates one's importance, and encourages inaction.

British democracy was not given by the elite. It was largely taken by the masses.

Dostoyevsky described hell as perhaps nothing more than a room with a chair in it. This room has several chairs. A young man sits in one.