30andawakeup Quotes & Sayings

The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that. — David Nicholls

I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage. — April Winchell

On me the tempest falls. It does not make me tremble. O holy Mother Earth, O air and sun, behold me. I am wronged. — Aeschylus

Sadly, the doctrinal ignorance in the pulpits of today is being replicated in the doctrinal ignorance and indifference of the pews, and the people are not even seeing the picture, much less getting it. — Albert Mohler

I love the body God gave me. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Cease to brag to me of America, and its model institutions and constitutions. America, too, will have to strain its energies, crack its sinews, and all but break its heart, as the rest of us have had to do, in thousand-fold wrestle with the Pythons, and mud-demons, before it can become a babitation for the gods. — Thomas Carlyle

The author "nails it" in terms of how to deal with a parent's dementia. Rather than browbeating the subject, the author "plays along" and tries to enter the subject's own dementia-challenged "reality." The book contains excellent coping strategies and methodology for dealing with someone suffering with and enduring the pain of dementia or Alzheimer's. It does so with sensitivity, candor and laugh-provoking humor. — Joel Kriofske

Ultimately I have learned more about poetry, from music and magic than from literature. — James Broughton

We can only change our selves and not others. We must be the change we want to see." - GANDHI — Diana Weiss-Wisdom

Give a man a program, frustrate him for a day.
Teach a man to program, frustrate him for a lifetime. — Waseem Latif

Then they gave me a loaf of bread and told me to walk through the forest and give some to anyone who asked. I did exactly what they told me, and the second beggar-woman was a fairy in disguise, but instead of saying that whenever I spoke, diamonds and roses would drop from my mouth, she said that since I was so kind, I would never have any problems with my teeth."
"Really? Did it work?"
"Well, I haven't had a toothache since I met her."
"I'd much rather have good teeth than have diamonds and roses drop out of my mouth whenever I said something — Patricia C. Wrede

The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today. — Max Lucado

And then for the first time in history a Cook County state's attorney was reelected for a third time. — Richard M. Daley

But the simple truth was that when a girl like Corinne loves you, you don't ask why. You just hope it doesn't change. Tyler — Megan Miranda

The sacred soul delivers the message of life. — Lailah Gifty Akita