817 quotes found
“Unless we learn to know ourselves, we run the danger of destroying ourselves.”
“you saywe were nevermeant for this vowed life,golden bands of only us, and deathdo us part. you say love like it's held in quotation marks,that this union soured before it started.”
“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.”
“evangelicals were instrumental in advancing the ideal of companionate marriage, one built on shared faith and mutual affection, a revolutionary notion in an era in which forced marriages were a not...”
“Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living exa...”
“Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.”
“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is let someone love you.”
“Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanit...”
“Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.”
“The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.”
“A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.”
“What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?”
“It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better...”
“God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.”
“STARS AND DANDELIONSDeep in the blue sky,like pebbles at the bottom of the sea,lie the stars unseen in daylightuntil night comes. You can't see them, but they are there. Unseen things are still the...”
“A friendship that can be ended didn't ever start.”
“The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.”
“A statement of truth, and that is:Everything I have accomplished is Thanks to the Lord above, and without him my success would have been impossible.”
“The truth is .. I'm okay with people not liking me. I'm not okay with them pretending that they do. Keep it real. Everybody ain't for everybody.”
“To truly strip a man of everything, one must take away his community, money, and corrode the core of his beliefs until he is left bathed in the agony of isolation.”
