L.J. Smith Quotes

This doctrine of polygamy, or spiritual wife-system, that has been taught and practiced among us, will prove our destruction and overthrow.

It's really easy to slide into a depression fueled by the pointlessness of existence.

At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!

The women who don't seek attention are usually the women you need to be giving your attention to.

Being realistic is the quickest path to mediocrity

If I can get them to think, get them to feel, get them to see, then I've done about all that I can as a teacher.

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible.

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

You can't teach court savvy

I want to help you decide that, by the power of God, you will not be ordinary.

When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

It seemed too good to be true. That's grace.

If you do your fair day's work, you are certain to get your fair day's wage - in praise or pudding, whichever happens to suit your taste.

Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.

Making art is a lot about just seeing what happens if you put some energy into something.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

After my stellar first grade academic achievements, I continued to perform well in the city primary schools - except for penmanship, which was not my forte.

Don't learn safety by accident.

Friends are friends forever, if the Lord's the Lord of them.

To the man of faith, there is not a thing that is not opportunity.

Our culture seems to believe that it's entertaining to teach women to be frightened.

I think I was really naïve. I had no context to think about what I wanted to do. Each step was a next stage of exploration.

Madam, I have been looking for a person who disliked gravy all my life; let us swear eternal friendship.

The secret to editing your work is simple: you need to become its reader instead of its writer.

I write my books in my head, and not in a specific study with a view. The view is from my inner eyes.

If Newborn Babies Could Speak They Would Be The Most Intelligent Beings On Planet Earth.

There are no roadblocks, only springboards.

Defense is superior to opulence.

I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.

I want to be the new Marilyn Monroe and find my own Clark Gable.

God's care for us is more watchful and more tender than the care of any human father could possibly be.

Guess it's true I'm not good at a one night stand , but I still need love cause I'm just a man

It was only until I started to be myself that the music started to flow and people started to listen. So, thank you guys...

Life is an adventure of our own design intersected by fate and a series of lucky and unlucky accidents.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.

I've been craving peanut butter-and-mayonnaise fried cheese sandwiches.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

I've always spent more time with a smile on my face than not, but the thing is, I don't write about it.

One hopes that each piece contains enough space for several narratives.

Over coaching is the worst thing you can do to a player.

There is a kind of invisible thread between the actor and the audience, and when it's there it's stunning, and there is nothing to match that.

There is a fruit of the Spirit that must accompany the gift of healing and that is longsuffering.

Thank God for tea! What would the world do without tea! How did it exist? I am glad I was not born before tea.

Prints mimic what we are as humans: we are all the same and yet every one is different. I think there's a spiritual power in repetition, a devotional quality, like saying rosaries.

Scallops are expensive, so they should be treated with some class. But then, I suppose that every creature that gives his life for our table should be treated with class.

I've discovered special makeup by a company called M.A.C. You could wear it on the surface of the sun and it wouldn't move.

If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready.

What use having a great depth of field, if there is not an adequate depth of feeling?