Is You Quotes
Sometimes success is simply being willing to give it your all.
You can't be neutral on a moving train.
The moment you make someone promise anything is the same moment you ask them to lie to you.
Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
Ideas are the most fragile things in the world, and if you do not write them down, they will be lost forever.
The secret to being wrong isn't to avoid being wrong! The secret is being willing to be wrong. The secret is realizing that wrong isn't fatal.
The act of giving voice to this spiritual suffering is, in my view, the sacred duty of the writer.
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.
Peace is a fruit of the Spirit, not the byproduct of accumulated wealth.
I believe all women know in their heart of hearts that they truly are divine and magical, even if they've temporarily forgotten.
We are only here for a little while, and our bodies belong to ourselves and no one else.
Self-disruption is akin to undergoing major surgery, but you are the one holding the scalpel.
When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.
But by this time I was acutely conscious of the gap between law and justice. I knew that the letter of the law was not as important as who held the power in any real-life situation.
Society flourishes when people think entrepreneurally.
The is a secret for greater self-control, the science points to one thing: the power of paying attention.
Intelligence is the door to freedom and alert attention is the mother of intelligence.
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.
Gratitude for the seemingly insignificant—a seed—this plants the giant miracle.
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.
...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.
It's like all technology: either not powerful enough or too powerful. It will never do exactly what you want it to do.
Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
Be curious about the world in which you live. Look things up. Chase down every reference. Go deeper than anybody else--that's how you'll get ahead.
We are a sum total of what we have learned from all who have taught us, both great and small.
Don't answer the door in a wedding dress and veil, he might not think you're joking.
But ambition is a funny thing: it creeps in when you least expect it and keeps you moving, even when you think you want to stay put.
When you focus on gratitude, positive things flow in more readily, making you even more grateful.
If it weren't for the unconventionality of my desires, my mind might never have been forced to reckon with my body.
She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some remnant of sanity remained which forced her to seek those who would save her from herself.
Statistically speaking, there is a 65 percent chance that the love of your life is having an affair. Be very suspicious.
We live as ripples of energy in the vast ocean of energy.
Sometimes when I see a bad performance and people still clap... I wonder if they're clapping because they liked what they saw or because they're happy it's over?
It's our very capacity for self-consciousness that makes us self-destructive!
Our fall was, has always been, and always will be, that we aren’t satisfied in God and what He gives. We hunger for something more, something other.
No one can do everything, but everyone can do something
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through. Do you come back?
Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
You don’t have to be brave or a saint, a martyr, or even very smart to be an atheist. All you have to be able to say is “I don’t know”.
God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.
The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again.
Whatever story you're telling, it will be more interesting if, at the end you add, "and then everything burst into flames.
We are created for adventure, and if we cannot find one, we start blowing things out of proportion so it feels like we have one.