Be That One! Quotes
It can be hard to hold onto your vision because other people will want you to be like they are. But your life has a course of its own, and only you can walk it.
The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.
I didn't know that I've completely left them all in the past. There's a part of me, wishing and hoping, that she would come back for me, and we would start a new life together, but she didn't.
You may have told me your story, but you’re still practically a stranger to me. I don’t know the you that you are right now as well as I know your past.
It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience who really defines you.
The world we inhabit is one where children feel sorrow long before they have the words to express it.
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
We don’t deliberately look for trouble in life. It comes. Suffering is a universal fact
Because what's perplexing is not that you and I encounter suffering in this life
God doesn’t promise us escape from suffering or pain. Rather, He promises to miraculously use even bad situations for your ultimate good.
What if you're chicken? What if you're more chicken than chicken soup?" Malloy said. Kit gave him a long, hard look. "Then you pretend you're not. You pretend so hard it comes true.
Everything you want is just outside your comfort zone.
One thing I've learned about myself is that I can accomplish anything I want to. The caveat is that I have to want to do it. I've never been able to forge desire.
Desire without action will collapse all hope built inside.
What I have written is but a fleeting intimation of the outside of what one man sees and may tell about the path he walks. No one shares the secret of a life
She's a princess and you're a jock, " he says. He thrusts his chin toward Bronwyn, then at Nate. "And you're a brain. And you're a criminal. You're all walking teen-movie stereotypes.
Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.
In my opinion, kissing a lady's hand is a fine tradition. After all, a man must start somewhere.
Maybe money can't buy happiness, but it can get you a nice little villa in Tuscany, and that's close enough for me.
It'd hardly be worth having a brother at all, if you couldn't smack him in the head every once in a while.
You're gonna sit down. You're gonna shut up. And by the grace of God Almighty, I ain't gonna kill you.
Every morning I read the obituaries. If it ain't there I make myself a cup of tea and carry on like I have the past century or so.
When in doubt, shoot 1st and ask questions later, but avoid the head, "because they'rea lot more likely to answer if they're not dead.
Honesty is the best policy. But insanity is a hell of a lot more effective in court. So your set, McMullen
Breaking up is hard to do. But, bustin him in the head ain't that easy, either.
I fear that someday you will abandon the joys we share and find another not worthy of your charms.
When they have contemplated the world, human beings have always experienced a transcendence and mystery at the heart of existence.
Do you get a percentage for every soul you corrupt or is this just how you get your kicks?” I enquired.“Take it as a compliment. I only try to corrupt people I like.
It's not compromise if it doesn't sting just a little bit on both sides, now is it?
And you were always nothing but slime, Henry Wallace. Fancy trash
Each person change themselves first, and then let your change act as a leader for others to make the changes they need.
The moment we begin to define others and ourselves by how we are different, the seeds of separation are planted.
It doesn't really matter how you feel about your character, it just matters what you do with it.
