Be That One! Quotes

You are having a bad day? Remember it could always be worse... It could be me having a bad day!

To specialize is to brush one tooth. When a person specializes he channels all of his energies through one narrow conduit

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they’ve held their own peace?

children need love most when they don't deserve it

How can I help this son of mine see when I can't see? The parent must always self-parent first, self-preach before child-teach, because who can bring peace unless they've held their own peace?

If something happened to Gillian, I'd rip the world down to save her, even if she spat in my face when I did. That's what parenthood means.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children

Ask any child who failed to live up to his parents’ idea of success, and you’ll likely hear that they never felt good enough, or that their parents had expectations that they could not live up to.

The drinking parent lied to the sober parent

The night-haunts never lie. They could, if they wanted to, but they don’t really see the point. The truth is so much more dangerous than a lie.

Loving you has been worse than an addiction to drugs. At least I don't have the drugs c r a w l i n g into my bed at night.

Having two women—one who can’t know about the other, and one who must be trusted not to destroy his life—is clearly difficult for him.

If I had seen pictures of people eating each other on the wall, I would've told him I was into cannibalism.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.

Food and medicine are not two different things: they are the front and back of one body. Chemically grown vegetables may be eaten for food, but they cannot be used as medicine.

Until there is a reversal of the sense of values which cares more for size and appearance than for quality, there will be no solving the problem of food pollution.

One time, I went to a restaurant and I asked the waiter for some food for thought. He left, came back, and tried shoving a sirloin in my ear.

When the truth is known, all descriptions cease, and silence alone remains. #Yoga Vasistha

Quiet, by its nature, slips away unnoticed. But once it's gone, we notice.

Without God's Word as a lens, the world warps.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won’t want to gossip.

And it's the 'Word of God' that turns the rocks in the mouth to loaves on the tongue. That fills our emptiness with the true and real good, 'that makes the eyes see', the body full of light.

I wear the lens of the Word and all the world transfigures into the Beauty of Christ and 'everything is eucharisteo'.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Race doesn't determine the quality of one's heart

The presence of happiness doesn't require continuous positive experiences

Never allow any level of success to steal your humility. You are not the first person to succeed on earth

Everyday's a honeymoon. Cuz darling, I love you to the moon.

I love you madly, forever.

Love is indeed its own hallucinogenic affecting the mind, heart and mood

was i leaving a life that, if snuffed out in a plane crash, would leave a sweet aroma representative of what matters most?

Be loving and kind to everyone.

You couldn't lose, you was playing Mozart

Men who make all the decisions in a relationship are also the ones who will blame you when they don’t work out as they expected.

When you leave, I feel like I'm alone with your demons.

I do not believe that gifts, whether of mind or character, can be weighed like sugar and butter

There are no perfectly honorable men

No government ought to be without censors

When the vision of the U.S. government included guarding the rights of people but staying out of their way, America was an economic engine more powerful than anything the world had ever witnessed.

Government could avoid having opinions about so many things if it would quit subsidizing so many things.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

We are defined by how we choose to exist. Responsibility towards and contribution to society is part of how we make a difference. Every human being wants to make a difference

At the end of the day, we're all striving to be touched, somehow.

If people would take me seriously, I’d never find out anything significant about them.

Emotions invariably push you to take suboptimal decisions

Temujin had had not the slightest notion that bad emotion can just grow and grow from inside you and squeeze out the universe.

Don't cry about it. Write about it.

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

I am born here among the monsters