Desire is the key to motivation. It is the key to develop a healthy personality and a positive attitude towards oneself and others.
Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
I'm starved." -Juli "How can you be starved? You just ate a huge bowl of popcorn." -Elspeth "Popcorn isn't food, it's popcorn." -Vicki
So to all who are situated as I am, I would say--Grow up as fast as you can.
For the secret of friendship is a mutual admiration, and it is the realization or suspicion that that admiration is lessening on one side or the other that swiftly breaks the charm.
You can't stay here any more. My fears have been irrational and they've forced me to make unwise decisions and accept the unacceptable.
I'd spent so long trying to fit in,trying to be someone i wasn't,that i had no idea who i was any more.
She had been born for this man, and she had spent so many years trying to accept the fact that he had been born for someone else...
Over time as most people fail the survivor's exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.
We want to believe that this life is longer than it is, but in the grand scheme of the universe our existence equals the amount of time it takes a warm breeze to blow through your hair on a spring day.
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society) to begin a long downhill descent.
Don’t tell me your name. It’s likely to awaken my conscience, and that’s the last thing we want.
—Necesito sentir que tengo el control. —Ah, ahora me has dado un desafío. — Él dio un paso más cerca. — Para hacerte perder el control.
He wasn't good with this sort of thing - with the back-and-forth dance between man and woman. He wasn't even sure if they were dancing, or if she was merely being polite.
Though the captives' resistance was dangerous, through such acts, dignity was preserved, and through dignity, life itself.
Number eight of the ten Amazon commandments: never fight an opponent face-to-face if you couldn’t defeat him. Wait and stab him in the back later.
The moment God is figured out with nice neat lines and definitions, we are no longer dealing with God.
Sandra had studied psychiatry in order to understand the nature of despair, but all she had really learned was the pharmacology of it. The human mind was easier to medicate than to comprehend.
Since there is no one like God, therefore all people should fear Him—in other words, dread His power and be devoted to His person.
Fear in the midst of the storm is instinctive and beneficial. Fear of a storm that could happen is not. It’s an intrusive emotion that can lead us to a greatly diminished life.
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into my own honey.
