66 quotes found
“Maybe its a whole lot less about focusing on the fact that were all victims and a whole lot more about the changing the fact that were all careless, as that is what victimized all of us in the firs...”
“With God, being lost is nothing more than an idea that never has and never will be anything more than an idea.”
“The real promise in too many promises is a promise that Im going to be disappointed.”
“Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.”
“The problem that I think I have with God is often not a problem at all. Rather, it is most frequently a tired misperception where I have made God what I need Him to be in order to justify my reject...”
“If I get up just one less time than the number of times Ive been knocked down, I have done one of the most devastating things possible; I have halted my life at that very spot.”
“You will not die if you abandon them. You will not lose if you abandon them. You will gain something greater. If you do not abandon them you will never reach enlightenment, nor find your self that ...”
“Love me...with all the abandonof a sudden wild rain.”
“It is only in the peach innocence of youth that life is at its crest on top of the wheel. And there being only life, the young cling to it, they fear death... And they should! ...For they are in life.”
“It is not wise to abandon a belief purely due to peer pressure.”
“In the midst of our worried searching we recklessly abandon the treasures that life has bestowed upon us in the mad hunt for that which we wish to bestow upon ourselves.”
“When you lose yourself in love, you find everything.”
“It’s strange how what drives us may abandon us midstream, how what tickles our ears with lies one moment may tell us truths that knock us on our emotional ass the next. After all, it is an unbeliev...”
“The knowledge that he had left me with no intent ever to return had come over me in tiny droplets of realization spread over the years. And each droplet of comprehension brought its own small measu...”
“Sadly, in too many cases surrender is having been ‘outrun’ by fear rather than having ‘run out’ of heart.”
“There’s not much that I can find in places where there is nothing to find. However, to avoid facing God I find myself spending a lot of time in those very places.”
“He stares at me—taking me in—with his lips slightly parted. I struggle to hold myself in place as we gawk at each other. I want so desperately to run, but something is holding me back, keeping me i...”
“When we step onto the bridge, Nathan turns and spreads his arms out wide. ‘Welcome to Pont des Arts, a.k.a. The Lock Bridge.”
“When I was younger, I would cling to life because life was at the top of the turning wheel. But like the song of my gypsy-girl, the great wheel turns over and lands on a minor key. It is then that ...”
“To abandon the child ‘within’ means that the adult ‘without’ will be an adult in name only. And frankly, I can only name a handful of things that are that tragic.”
