Rather than feeling vindicated, I felt guilty. It seemed cruel, and all my fault, somehow. My relationship with my mother had always brought into question any sense I had of myself as a good and decent person. [p. 128]
Hope's interesting, isn't it? I can't turn hope off, it's hopeless.
No matter what challenges or obstacles we experience, we must make a CHOICE to become better or bitter because of it. Will and pray your way through it. In my opinion, the difference between those who are considered strong and those who are seen as w...
But part of surviving is being able to move on.
Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.
The inner revolution will not be televised or sold on the Internet. It must take place within one's own mind and heart.
The truth is, going against the internal stream of ignorance is way more rebellious than trying to start some sort of cultural revolution.
With the new technology that keeps entering the media, film composers are constantly being placed in new learning situations. Acknowledging this and realizing that one must keep up, I maintain, nonetheless, that the real creative power is in the mind...
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. - Confucius
Mom, you know what? I just realized you have a knack for making people disappear. [Lella's son catches on!]
Lella York, the self-proclaimed queen of passive-aggressive behavior. [Lella's perceptive view of herself]
You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you.
Nature doesn't give a damn for convenience, and never has.
I heard the water-fall rejoice Singing like a choir, I saw the sun flash out of it Azure and amber fire. The earth was like an open flower Enamelled and arrayed, The path I took to find its heart Fluttered with sun and shade. And while earth lured me...
I can discover nothing in any mere animal but an ingenious machine, to which nature has given senses to wind itself up, and guard, to a certain degree, against everything that might destroy or disorder it.
...It's like trying to fit an octopus into a pair of tuxedo pants. And not a plain octopus at that, but an octopus that doesn't even exist.
When we're not following God's will, our sacrifices aren't acceptable to Him. What God wants most is for us to be broken before Him, walk with Him, know Him, and obey Him.
But hey, what's life without a little adversity?" That had to have been the fakest attempt at optimism since my fourth grade teacher tried reasoning that we were better off without the dead kids in our class because it'd mean more turns on the playgr...
how anxiously I yearned for those I had forsaken.
[His pain] wasn’t a punishment. It wasn’t a gift. It just was. His pain was his life. It wasn’t all his life was, not always.
Will you be my forever, Donia?
