T.W. Shannon Quotes
Happiness is already in the future because your heart and mind took you there a million times already. It knew.
The way to happiness is by truth. Seek to be true in all things and you will have a foundation to build your future.
The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.
All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.
Worry does not keep it from raining tomorrow, but it does keep it from being sunny today.
I’m not mad. I already told you that. We all have mistakes in our past...and our future. It’s a fact of life.
Never keep your brain so full that people’s opinions take up every pew in your mind, and truth has to be “born again” before it is believed.
Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.
The most important legacy you will ever leave is your vision planted in the minds of your disciples and a passion as strong as a storm in their hearts.
I waited for the seasons of love to pass from this cold winter to the summer heat I dreamed of.
Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.
War?' The word held too much definition for three letters.
Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.
Who am I fooling? Bad dreams never end. We just pretend they aren’t there.
My heart is sinking and my chest physically aches from the heavy sadness that it carries within.
Sometimes, people meant it when they smiled. Other times, they smiled because they wanted to mean it.
Acceptance, " she told the young woman. "God is watching over him." The small room was quiet, and Emily felt her muscles relax as she prayed.
God will shout during your storms, whisper during your sunshine and sing during the rarest rainbows you will encounter.
Just five minutes, God, I chant like some hostage negotiator on the brink of a resolution. Five minutes alone. Please, please. Please.
They say there is six degrees of separation between you and another person. However, when people are praying for you there are only two degrees.
God didn’t design your life so you would constantly fall down, but he does hope that you will be brought to your knees.
Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.
When I was twenty-something, I asked my father, “When did you start feeling like a grownup?” His response: “Never.
People that have trust issues only need to look in the mirror. There they will meet the one person that will betray them the most.
More often than not, you will never be judged by your intentions because the world can't read minds and very few will know the heart of a person they have not given time to know personally.
Don't ever get to the point where you can't be taught because life is a classroom and everyone owns a pen.
Shame without repentance doesn’t lose power when it is spoken, it only seeks approval.
Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.
The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Often, love is a tangled web of lies that only a broken heart would weave. Seldom is dishonesty the whole person, rather it's the pain.
