93 quotes found
Author · American
American author
“Without dreams, life is a desert.”
“We love those whom we serve (p. 26)”
“Chocolate is God's apology for brocolli”
“Books are the most tolerant of friends.”
“What a difference having a friend makes.”
“Only those who never step, never stumble.”
“I am not a believer in love at first sight. For love, in its truest form, is not the thingof starry-eyed or star-crossed lovers, it is far more organic, requiring nurturing and timeto fully bloom, ...”
“I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”
“Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent. Like my fear of snakes. When I was eighteen I drove my car off t...”
“There's a problem with marrying up. You always worry that someday they'll see through you and leave. Or, worse yet, someone better will come along and take her. In my case, it wasn't someone. And i...”
“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”
“It is in the dark times that the light of friendship shines brightest. (The Walk - Chapter 19, Page 122”
“Feelings can be like wild animals-we underrate how fierce they are until we've opened their cage”
“It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.”
“The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't be...”
“There are people who come into our lives as welcome as a cool breeze in summer- and last about as long.”
“In the end, we all lose it. Remember that. In the end, we own nothing.”
“Believe. Believe in your destiny and the star from which it shines. Believe you have been sent from God as an arrow shot from His own bow. It is the single universal trait that the great of this ea...”
“There are dreams that are meant to be shared and dreams to be kept hidden in our hearts. It's sometimes difficult to know which is which.”
“Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.”
“I don't get that, I mean, what's power? Let's say he suddenly becomes king of the world. What is he going to do with it that he can't do now? Is his food going to taste better? Is the weather going...”
“The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.”
“Dance. Dance for the joy and breath of childhood. Dance for all children, including that child who is still somewhere entombed beneath the responsibility and skepticism of adulthood. Embrace the mo...”
“It's been said that parents should give their children roots and wings. That was a perfect description of my parents. Even in a wheelchair, my father was a dreamer with his head in the clouds and m...”
