T.W. Shannon Quotes
It’s funny how even when you’ve lived with someone your whole life, they can still surprise you.
There are so many battles worth fighting for. The ones not worth fighting are the insecure battles that rage in another person’s mind.
It's harder to hate someone when they like the same ice cream as you.
When we want to see someone in a certain way, we find a way, but when we don't we have to wake up and see who they truly are and not what our pain or anger chooses to believe.
Cuz I can count on one hand the men who’ve loved me, not in the Biblical sense—I don’t have enough digits for that—but who have truly loved me.
You will know if you are on the right path when God directs your choices, not your spouse or significant other.
You don't walk away to prove your worth. You walk away because you allowed someone else to dictate your value and you found yourself believing it.
Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.
War makes animals of men, and we can't let that happen to us. If we do, we won't have any chance of survival.
Never mix business with religion, or you might end up losing your testimony when the business agreement is no longer something you or Christ would put up with.
Life feels like fall of itself.”“'A dream within a dream.”“And I want to wake up.
if i had to choose between breathing or loving you, i would say 'i love you' with my last breath
Get the Girl, " he demanded. "She knows too much!"Dammit. Why did people keep presuming that, and if it was true, why the hell couldn't my GPA reflect the fact?
If a thousand painters worked for a thousand years, they could not create a work of art as beautiful as you
For a moment i thought i had died and gone to heaven. Now i see that i am very much alive, and heaven has been brought to me
I never thought the touch of another person could make the nerves jangle and dance beneath my skin. It was like I had slept the last few months away and now, suddently, I was waking up.
But this girl—She reminded me of what it was like to believe in something. Her hope was naïve, but it was real, and I hadn’t felt something real in years. Nothing positive anyways. (Eric)
Luthicer hummed. "You're either brave or very foolish." "What's the difference?" (Eric)
Maybe I got a few words wrong, but that's so near how the conversation went, I'm going to call it truth.
Memories are powerful that way. They can bring a person back to another place and time and make them laugh or cry all over again.
In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.
Cruel people offer pity when they no longer feel threatened. However, kind people offer compassion and understanding regardless.
One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.
Being kind to someone, only to look kind to others, defeats the purpose of being kind.
The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.
When you can identify the insecurities inside the person that is hurting you then you can begin to heal. It isn't about you. It is about their past.
The day you find out who you are is when you look back and realize that it was never the words, rather your actions that defined you.
Storms don't come to teach us painful lessons, rather they were meant to wash us clean.
A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.
Arrange your life in such a way that you don't make choices based on fear of God, instead of love of God.
Make choices in life that don't leave people bitter, worse off or confused. Any choice that leads you to do this is a choice that didn't include God in the decision making process.
Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.
What people can get you or do for you will never replace a person that will influence you to be a better person.
Kindness is as simple as being grateful for the love anyone has shown you, by not destroying them because it isn't on your terms.
The healthy should be reminded that we are all dying because it is through our own reminder of mortality that we accelerate our good intentions, into actions people can see.
Before you call yourself a Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu or any other theology, learn to be human first.
Nowhere in the bible did it say, “Only show compassion and empathy to those you can trust.” If we did that, we would be burying homeless people every day.
If you’re treating people poorly then you're not emulating God’s love. God always resides with the broken hearted.