Monica Quotes

You can't force your child to go to bed. Well, you can, but it doesn't work.

We were meant to influence the world, not have the world influence us.

I'm not impressed by your money or what you have.

I tell my students to think of poems as language plus, language with value added beyond its everyday use.

I can't even imagine having twins.

But this girl...she doesn’t feel pointless. She’s real and she’s beautiful and she fits perfectly when she’s in my arms. She makes me want to feel.

One of the quainter quirks of life is that we shall never know who dies on the same day as we do ourselves.

he [Llewelyn Powys] has always in mind the great touchstone Death & consequently life is always judged as how far it fits us, or compensates us, for ultimately dying.

Museum education has the power and the responsibility to do the challenging inner work of tackling tough topics and turning them into teachable moments.

Tough topics are only tough for those who don't want to approach conversation, who don't like problematizing the status quo and nuancing the narrative.

Education is the lifeblood of museums.

Something good happens to you, and you let off a different energy that attracts other good things.

People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it.

Girls in love will do desperate and creative things.

But I supposed love doesn't stop, even in wars.

In life, as in art, talking vitiates doing.

They were both lost in cities that would not pause even to shrug

Human nature is so complicated that it will never know the exact border between normality and abnormality them they..

Genes and education are fundamental building blocks with witch man develops personality and lifestyle in one way or other...

Human person as a unit harmonic and dynamic individual integrates in the living environment using for this purpose all available resources.

Value those whose capabilities are insurmountable you yourself possess the same strength....there's NO value in clowns! Believe and overcome!

while she wanted to look neither to her past nor her future, she lived exclusively in both. They had took different paths, but they had journeyed, so she realized, together.

I have a sense of melancholy isolation, life rapidly vanishing, all the usual things. It's very strange how often strong feelings don't seem to carry any message of action.

Then you know. You know what it's like to love someone like you love yourself and lose them.

But when it comes down to it, we all die alone.

I’m sure I’d remember if we’d met. It doesn’t happen every day to witness perfection on Earth.

My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can't look at a jar without devouring it!

If you can't stand the heat in the kitchen, keep cooking. Success comes from repeatedly doing things that make you uncomfortable.

My heart will still ache sometimes. Maybe more often than not. I think it's possible to be healed without feeling whole.

I have a constant hungry bum. It's like my own venus fly trap

Words are meaningless when there are no actions backing them up. Prove to me that you feel that way. Don't just tell me, show me.

Anger suffocates your mind, body and soul. The ability to love amidst anger is a true blessing and it transcends our existence!

Do you trust me to be strong enough…strong enough to love you in the way you need to be loved?

People are like a pack of dogs sometimes. All right one by one, but together... together they do awful things they don't mean to do.

Never let yourself be swayed by emotions, ' her mother had said. 'Emotions are fleeting. They come and go. But reality stays with you forever.

So maybe now I might be imagining what it would be like to kiss him again, but that didn’t mean anything.

I'm forty-two, " he said. "That's eighty-four in musician years.

I said kiss me again.” A sultry smile curved her lips. “Would that be such a difficult task to perform?”Christ almighty, she wanted him to kiss her again. And she was ordering him to do so.

If one plays with fire, one should be prepared to burn, Jane.”“You say that as if I’m in danger from you.”“Maybe you are, ” Tobias growled as the scent of her invaded his nostrils...

Stupidity is a mindset of those who refuse knowledge! A mistake of judgment is an error, we make mistakes all of the time, it's stupid if you keep making the same mistakes often.

I’m sure I look a wreck. But he’s the one who wrecked me so he may as well take a good long look at what he’s done.

Work smart, not hard

I had a moral tutor, but never saw him (the only words of his I remember are 'The three pleasures of life -drinking, smoking, and masturbation')

My heart is yours. It beats for no one but you. Do you hear me? Only you.”~Jasper White Surrender to Me

There's nothing like love or incumbent death to make you realize how many things you still want to do.

He still smelled of limes. It made saliva come into her mouth. It made her feel that before she had been sleepy, and now she was awake.

Ooo la la! That kiss was fine, and it was full of all the words I didn't need to say.

Wise Child: Why don't you beat me then?Juniper: I can't be bothered.

What makes humility so desirable is the marvelous thing it does to us it creates in us a capacity for the closest possible intimacy with God.

Extract and expel implicit biases from your work life. Don't taint our visitors with your bias and views. Allow them to form their own conclusions where it's developmentally appropriate.