Most of these quotes represent how I felt at some point in my life (since I started this blog). Some are still applicable right now while others are just a reminder of where I’ve been.
To love at all is to be vulnerable. – C.S. Lewis
Letting someone in means abandoning the walls we’ve spent a lifetime building.
Dream Big!
We Can Do It! -Rosie the Riveter
Love will die if held to tightly, love will fly if held to lightly.
Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
When i stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that i would not have a single bit of talent left, and i could say, “I used everything you gave me.” ~ Erma Bombeck
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
- Gandhi
You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Gandhi
We know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us.
It’s not childish to hold on to hope. It’s actually hard, very, very, hard.
I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that person could be me.
-Anna Quindlen
Change; we don’t like it, we fear it, but we can’t stop it from coming. We either adapt to change or we get left behind. And it hurts to grow, anybody who tells you it doesn’t is lying. But here’s the truth…the more things change, the more they stay the same. And sometimes, oh, sometimes change is good. Oh, sometimes, change is…everything.
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
You have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.
Izzie: I’m in love with this incredible guy and we’re having problems. And my best friend, he would know what to say to me about it. I need to be able to talk to my best friend. I cannot get through this without my best friend.
George: Why isn’t this easier?
Izzie: I don’t know.
George: Well, I want my best friend back.
Izzie: Me too.
I’m all glued back together now. I make no apologies for how I chose to repair what you broke.
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.
The contest is a lion fight. So, chin up, put your shoulders back, walk proud, strut a little. Don’t lick your wounds, celebrate them. The scars you bear are the sign of a competitor. You were in a lion fight, Stevens…just because you didn’t win, doesn’t mean you don’t know how to roar.
We’re not going to do this. I can’t share. I can’t catch up with you. I can’t talk. ‘Cause if I did; … if I told you that my heart hurt so much sometimes that I want to rip it from my chest with my own little hands, I would fall apart, and I don’t have time to fall apart. –Chandra Wilson as Dr. Miranda Bailey
Ever since I knew you, I had this fantasy and you have failed on every occasion to live up to that fantasy… But I still love you, whether you are capable of letting me or not.
Freedom comes when you learn to let go.–Madonna, Power of Goodbye
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time –John Lubbock
Both abundance and lack exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend… when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of nature and personal pursuits that bring us pleasure / the wasteland of illusion falls away and we experience Heaven on earth. ~ Sarah Ban Breathnach
No matter how many good friends I had, there were aspects of my life I needed to deal with alone- heart issues and attitudes that could not be wrestled with a bible study.. They had to be confronted by the Holy Spirit in the privacy of my own soul –Mary Forsythe
Sitting at the foot of the cross….getting to the bottom of it all. It’s a walk I must make often, daily…
