K. Taylor Quotes

Satan will always find you something to do when you ought to be occupied about that [regular, prayerful Bible study], if it is only arranging a window blind.

Truly there is a Living God, and He is the hearer and answerer of prayer.

I have always been on speaking terms with God, especially now. God and I just had a few weeks of silence. 'Tis over now.

I don’t believe in prayer, but I do believe in magic, and I want to believe in miracles.

I wonder: instead of retreating and hiding, instead of pining for the way it was, what if I accept the way it is? This strikes me as both the most obvious thing in the world and the most profound.

Moving on should be a required high school classbecause Lynchburg is determined to make me forget.

There is a light that shines in the darkness, which is only visible there.

Each of us has an equal amount of Shadow and Light buried in our souls. What makes us different is how much Shadow we choose to suppress, and how much Light we choose to show.

In life, you will find two things. The quiet beauty of Darkness, and the bright songs of Light. The choice is yours to decide which will be you, and which will be your shadow.

We do not see the world through a window, but through a mirror. Everything we discern is comparatively held to the vision with which we see ourselves.

A man’s most valuable possession is his integrity. Unless he has no integrity. In which case, he may not have much of anything of value.

To be one of a pair of bodies that knew that melting fusion. To reach and find. To be and reached for and found. To belong to a mutual certainty. To wake up holding hands.

It's all about proximity.

Now one day, maybe I can forgive John Andersen for what he done to these trees, but I ain't gonna forget it. I figure forgiving is not letting something nag at you—rotting you out.

You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation.

I stand, and wait among the sea foam. I swim in my own tears-I sing without my voice. I do not reach for higher ground, because I have lapped in the churning waters.

You mean to tell me you're mourning the loss of someone who never existed?

Take solace in that, regardless of the fact that the love you had in your mind was lost, it was fairer than any, and you can take that with you forever.

Sweetheart, I’m telling you, you love someone like that, you love them the right way, and no time would be enough. Doesn’t matter if you had thirty years, ” she tells me. “It wouldn’t be enough.

I find myself smiling, finally. I guess I do remember how to do it. You just turn the corners of your mouth up.

I never want to leave you." I didn't respond- not because I couldn't find the words, but because there weren't any words in the entire world that could have sounded more perfect.

Our customers are not our competitors. We compete for them, not with them.

What was he? Storyteller and secretary and doer of odd jobs, neither Tizerkane nor delegate, just someone along for the dream.

Again his memory failed to conjure her face. It was like trying to call up a melody while another song played.

The memory is a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets.

Of course I believe in magic. I believe in storytelling.

Life doesn’t need magic to be magical.(But a little bit sure doesn't hurt.)

I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner-peace circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world, and the more peaceful our planet will be.

The pain on the inside is what keeps you human, ' she said. 'Never forget that.

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship.

Progress is the only road going there.

Leadership: Converting dreams into goals and goals into success.

There is great power in goals and dreams.

[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate it through dialogue, partly overt, partly internal, with others.

What you do doesn’t define you. You can’t let your failures, or your success for that matter, dictate how you view yourself. You are loved.

What matters more than where you are is the direction you are heading.

Once you discover that failure is survivable, your fear of it subsides. Failure is not opposite to success, just part of its process.

A fear of losing, of failure is a fear of success.

A man’s desire is for the woman, but the woman’s desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

Writers are like onions, layers upon layers upon layers.

It's never too late to achieve your dreams

Three guys and a girl were leaning against a black raised pickup ... I had to do a double take as this group was nothing like I had ever seen before.

I look up and watch the bad parts of me shrinking to dots in the wide blue.

Typical St Mary’s. When the chips are down we don’t whine and we don’t run – we do some damage.

If the Good Lord meant men to use percussion caps, he wouldn't have strung flint all over the ground.

...new life starts in the dark. Whether it is a seed in the ground, a baby in the womb, or Jesus in the tomb, it starts in the dark.

This city is yawning before me, but I'm not tired.

You're elegance in a misunderstood form. Crystal quartz in a world of platinum. Oh, my dizzy boy, there's a fire in you that I use to warm my hands on chilly mornings.

Today I speak the truth as I know it to be, tomorrow I may know better.

Not by discussions nor by argument, but by lifting up Christ shall we draw men unto Him.