P.J. Gordon Quotes

The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.

I need to have systems in place to track and monitor my leads

Everything I was doing when I didn't have deals was preparing me for when I did

Once you add value, you get paid.

It would be narrowness to suppose that an artist can only care for the impressions of those who know the methods of his art as well as feel its effects. Art works for all whom it can touch.

God uses nobodies that will trust Him implicitly and fully.

Shadows were too black, and when a breeze stirred the trees, the shadows changed in a disquieting way.

In secret we met -In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years, How should I greet thee? -With silence and tears

Life is to be enjoyed, not endured

The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain.

Through all of living have much joy and laughter, life is to be enjoyed, not just endured.

It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.

To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.

Since God is truth, a contempt for truth is equally a contempt for God.

Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o’er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.

We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms, or our faith or lack of faith, but only with what God has said

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

All who joy would winMust share it -- Happiness was born a twin.

Hope-that unshakable golden belief that things can get better- is why I'm here talking to you now. Without it, we are nothing.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more

I live not in myself, but I becomePortion of that around me: and to meHigh mountains are a feeling, but the humof human cities torture.

If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad.

I awoke one morning to find myself famous.

Onward, and up, and up again, until the impossible was achieved, all barriers were broken, all pains conquered, all abilities possessed. Until all was lightning and no darkness left.

A man touched me: his hand... my thigh.I touched him too: my fist... his jaw.

I've taken care of it, " I saidMy father looked at me, shocked.Then I realized "taken care of" had a very specific meaning in his line of work."No, no, I mean he's gone.

Every time a scientist publishes a good piece of work, she helps to maintain and raise the standards for what is true. We have to keep chipping away.

The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space.

To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

Friendship is love without wings.

...methinks the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh the scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

And yet methinks the older that one growsInclines us more to laugh than scold, though laughterLeaves us so doubly serious shortly after.

You did a politics project on a government that got overthrown on the due date? Man, did anybody ever tell you you've got no luck?""I suspected it, " said Raymond ironically.

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole —And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

A soul that becomes the place where divine grace is harbored and encouraged joins the class of the immortals and lives on into eternal greatness.

If we could follow the slogan that says, "Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

If I could always read I should never feel the want of company.

Encourage your children to read more and watch television less.

Do not despair. Do not give up. Look for the sunlight through the clouds.

Beauty is more a danger than intelligence or wit. One becomes a living mirror for the inadequacies of others.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

Mapmaker mapmakermake me a mapone to one scale, without a single gap.Map every rock, every thought, every treeand erase all the territory.

Marriage is a long conversation, someone once said, and maybe so is a rock band's life. A few minutes later, both were done.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend.

Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone.Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.

On with the dance! let joy be unconfin'd

Teach them [your children] in such a way that they could not misunderstand the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

What's more important than recycling? Producing something to recycle.

All that young-girl idealism is someone else's now.