132 quotes found
“There's so much to write. Where should I start?I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote me back this:'You should start where you are”
“Some people cant be in your life because they dont have the power to help you improve it. That doesnt mean you dont wish them well, it just means that you are on Chapter ten of your life, when they...”
“All great beginnings start in the dark, when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.”
“In the very center of your being, life begins in silence and in joy.”
“You have the power to shape your life the way you want it to be. Every though, every word, every action guides you with a purpose. And that purpose is to fulfill your destiny. Some may say you're j...”
“You see the bird and you see its flight.You can not see through its eyes. Therefore, you don't know its plight.”
“Introspective souls are often tormented by their passionate visions. This is because visionaries see what shall be and wake up to what is. However, if you couldn't see a glimpse of the city lights ...”
“You wish you couldve learned to play piano. You wish you couldve started drawing when you were young. You wish you couldve figured out who you wanted to be before you graduated college. You wish yo...”
“...That's why we have the Museum, Matty, to remind us of how we came, and why: to start fresh, and begin a new place from what we had learned and carried from the old.”
“...you want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ...”
“We had been texting for exactly thirteen minutes, asking random questions, trying to figure out if we knew any of the same people, or if we liked the same kind of music--the usual interview process...”
“Release-For yearsthey told you tosit.Stay.Now they open the doorand tell you toget up.Leave.Where do you gowith no oneto show youthe way?”
“The cross unerringly exposes this stunningly marvelous and abruptly exquisite declaration that God will not let this single life of mine, with all of its grotesque maladies and pathetic filth pass ...”
“In my limited realm of experience, beginnings led to endings.”
“COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!In the deep valley, in the twilight, the apple trees were on the eve of blossoming; here and there among the shadowed boughs one flower had opened early, rose and white,...”
“We cant even remotely fathom that whatever is ending for us is always more than an ending.”
“We lose the understanding that death always begets life of some sort, and that life is always an opportunist, persistently standing ready to build something out of the smoldering ashes and raise so...”
“every end should be followed by great new beginning”
“It's him, it always has been and it always will be ~ the only thing left now is timing.”
“If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.”
