T.W. Shannon Quotes

Sometimes we can spend too much time trying to fix our life that we forget to live.

A true love story has always been about the journey, not the ending.

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

Sometimes you can't stand the sound of her voice and other times you wonder how you'd even breathe if she wasn't there. That's marriage, and she'll feel the same way.

A Romantic builds everyday fulfillment through tenacious observation of daily life and an abundance of reliance on intuition. The result: An extraordinary life lived in ordinary days.

Darian murdered them in cold blood. That’s a crime punishable with life in the Terrorscape, where you experience the worst nightmares imaginable.

Fear and focus are the only two things standing between you and staying positive.

Writing is the only way to run away from home, without ever leaving.

The best part about being a writer is getting the last word.

The purest love always reveals itself during acceptance.

See it for what it is and own it, rather than rethink it so you don't have to deal with the trauma of the abuse. This is the only way to move on--through acceptance.

Sometimes you just gotta accept that hope is gone.

Communication is the one class no one graduates from. Even the wisest man's words will be misinterpreted by a fool.

Lack of communication has a way of clipping our wings, which keeps us from flying. When things are left unspoken, we forget that everyone is destined to share the sky together.

When you are offered a miracle take it. Otherwise, show God your tail so he can move on and give it to someone who doesn't want to be in hell any more.

Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness.

Don’t worry if you fall, sweet girl. Youth is made for bruises.

All I cared about that summer were suntans, beaches, boys and booze.

The rebel inside of me always ignored the rules.

Respect should be found in your own heart and never demanded, sacraficed, begged for or negotiated. If you have to explain why you deserve it then you never had it.

Don't let the inconsequential fairy tales stand in your way! You do what makes you happy, no matter what.

People that don’t move will never notice the chains they carry.

An infinity with God has always been a circle, not a straight line past all your mistakes.

Love will drive you insane, but never let it drive you stupid or blind.

We are all children coming inside from recess with varying degrees of dirt on us.

The rules of life are nothing that cannot be fixed.

Love crosses the sky on a peculiar disturbing night.

I was asked once why I write poetry. I said, why do you breath?

You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don't slay Jekyll in his stead

A paradox is a storm that rains on itself.

You won't change anything significant in the world if you try to be like it. Change comes when you do something different.

I rather be a stupid person wanting clarification and answers, in order to be wiser, than be a stupid person that blindly believes the lies they are told, without question.

Your ability to see will never broaden when you only see yourself.

If you spend your life over analysing every encounter you will always see the tree, but never the forest.

We all tell stories--to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits.

Everyone has a story - find yours!

You don’t need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.

Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it.

When things don’t add up, either you don’t have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

We have all at one time been stranded on islands shouting lies across the seas of misunderstanding, hoping the fog will carry our mischief to the distant ports in people’s minds.

We are all lies waiting for the day when we will break free from our cocoon and become the beautiful truth we waited for.

People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.

Be leery of silence. It doesn't mean you won the argument. Often, people are just busy reloading their guns.

A heart worth loving is one you understand, even in silence.

Never allow yourself to believe you should be silent.

I think sometimes, being silent and watching, can change a person.

There are always a million words behind the silence.

Silence by any other name is called shame.

I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.

People who made their dreams come true didn’t simply go after it. They changed the person they were, in order to fit the type of person that would live that type of dream.