Be That One! Quotes
Kids can be more creative and smarter if parents ddidn’t want them to be first & best.
Word of advice for any young man that might want to take out Malia or Sasha Obama - Their father can order an assassination, don't piss him off.
Word of advice - never ask a terrorist the question 'What would you do for a Klondike bar?'.
But Little League can be a great experience for kids, as long as they want to play--and don't play to bring their parents glory.
I can be a better me than anyone can
I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
There is dignity after the storm.
There's healing in your hand, in your voice, in your heart, in your eyes! YOU ARE A HEALER!
Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey—the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.
Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it, be it, and spread it.
We must be so heavenly minded that we are compelled to be of earthly good!
I’m not mean to everybody. I’m only mean to people whose intellectual level is awfully lower than mine.
If he just had the decency to die silently yesterday, not squeal like a girl, I’d be free right now. Probably even doing some real job, ” she sneered.
He had a semicircle tattoo with an indecent word on the back of his head, suggesting all people around him to leave him alone – in a much more impolite manner.
Everything had changed, and maybe she couldn’t keep up with it, but she still was good at making people regret they had ever crossed her way.
Because otherwise you would have to let them in, let them change your life, and it’s scary and unpredictable and unsafe – at least, that’s what we all think.
She looked herself in the eyes and saw that there was nothing left. No sense. It must have gone through that hole in her chest along with everything else.
She had every right to be harsh, mean, and independent. Every damn right. And yet he had a feeling that she needed care more than anyone else in the world.
The others could believe that she was that way because she lost her parents so early, but Peter knew better. She was strong, confident, and never broken.
He watched her curiously from below, feeling as someone might feel watching a butterfly sit nearby, afraid to scare it off with a sound of voice or an abrupt movement.
I gulped, mesmerized by his hypnotic eyes and charming, spearmint smile, and uttered something intelligent like, "Uh, huh." ~ from Dragon Flight
So as near as I could tell the end of the world began roughly about the time that Billy Carver’s butt rang about halfway through the War of 1812.
So the world was nuts and he'd suddenly discovered a kink for geeks. There were worse things.
Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.
An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.
My lifesaver has always been the hazel iris of your soul. It never fails. When the world plunges me deep into the darkness, one look from you is all it takes to save me.
Poverty and sickness have this miraculous power of completely changing one’s priorities
Is everything forbidden us except to fold our arms? Poverty is not written in the stars
Business or profession?''I guess you'd call me a writer.'No profession, ' said the police car, as if talking to itself. The light held him fixed, like a museum specimen, needle thrust through chest.
Her pulse raced, pounding in her ears above the howling wind. A wave of dizziness crashed over her with the rapid flood of adrenaline. She gasped in a breath. “Don’t let go.
We don’t get to choose what happens to us—but we always get to choose how we react to it.
I wouldn't be your best and most marvelous friend in the galaxy if I didn’t point out there might be a few negative consequences from all…” she gazed upward and twirled her hand in the air “…this.
That excuse only works until you discover the person is merely an individual like any other.
Alexis, please mind your mouth. Cursing in Russian is still cursing.
In sum, every pore of his being oozed one thing…okay, FINE. Every pore oozed two things. The first was irrelevant. The second was dangerous.
They sit in their soundproof rooms and issue tone-deaf edicts and call themselves controlling the world. And one day they ask you to die for them.
The value of taking risks through all stages of life is constant...it's the excuses that change.
God’s Word not only gives authority to one’s ministry
It's when we come to the end of ourselves that we come to the beginning of grace.
We are, without doubt, broken people living with other broken people in a broken world.
God loves you unconditionally, as you are and not as you should be, because nobody is as they should be. It is the message of grace.~Quote by Brennan Manning
God attaches no strings to His love. None. His love for us does not depend on our loveliness. It goes one way. As far as our sin may extend, the grace of our Father extends further.
The only 'if' the Gospel knows is this: 'if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.' (1 John 2:1)
What you will encounter is 'grace unmeasured, vast and free' --the kind that will frighten and free you at the same time. That's what grace does, after all.
I speak the unseen into seeing and I can feel it, this steady breathing in the rhythm of grace--'give thanks (in), give thanks (out)'.
We 'have' all received on grace after another, but we only recognize the glory of God in this moment 'when we wake to the one grace after another'.