If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.
I love you Bonnie. So much that I hurt with it. And I hate it, and I love it, and I want it to go away, and i want it to stay forever....
...at last I understood that writing was this: an impulse to share with other people a feeling or truth that I myself had.
I care about strangers when they're abstractions, but I feel almost nothing when they're literally in front of me.
Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are shifted to a new domain.
Love is the colour of spring sunshine muted through old windows. Love has a taste, a texture - dark chocolate with pistachios; a sound - wind chimes echoing from a distant hill; a rhythm - the tango, obviously.
Be as intellectual as you like about it, but India is brilliantly mad. And if you want to love it, you have to hate it first.
Passion is a far better prioritizer than any organization system. Soul refreshment comes from SEEING glory – not getting stuff done.
Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.
I am an author that likes to write in many different styles so to use the platform of expression to the absolute best of the ability that I have been given.
You have got to build a firm foundation on the living word of God. You have got to study it, to store it in your heart, to gain the wisdom that it gives and apply it to your life.
The light of truth will cover the world, and eliminate the darkness that, for at the moment, blinds so many from the way. The faith of the faithful will prevail, and those faithful will be united with the Lord Jesus forever.
Seth's quote from his book: "And if I only could I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap our places" -"Running up that Hill" by Kate Bush
Love is the most beautiful thing that can happen to someone. No one can explain that feeling and desires engrossing a person preparing to give their heart to someone.
If I had the wings of a swan, over these stony hills I would fly. I would fly to the arms of my true love, and there I'd be happy to die.
A mystery is not a puzzle waiting to be solved, but rather something for which there is . Mystery's offspring is not frustration but awe, and that sense of awe grows in tandem with knowledge.
When we first hear [a] word, we start putting these associational hooks into it that make it easier to fish it back out at some later date.
Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips--not because they're bad, but because they're mortal.
We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?
We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.
