Adult Nonfiction Quotes & Sayings

There are always the kids who just love animals. Unfortunately, though, people have become afraid of the outdoors. — Jean Craighead George

We are paint streaked runners,
deafened by the cries of all the sad people.
It's a powerful sound that practically yanks the tears right out of you.
Sometimes, you just can't help but feel like a
very small
clam in
a very
big ocean. — Taylor Rhodes

If you can find time for [other] activities, you can make time for your goals. — Beverly K. Bachel

The more messes you allow into your life, the more messes will become a normal (and acceptable) part of your life. — Robin Sharma

Gunner shook his head; he wasn't in the mood. He stared down at his bottle as he spoke. "Yeah, and what if I do go after it and what if I find no one, and I'm alone for the next sixty years? What then? Huh? Friends and family will get married. I'll be stuck buying gifts. Years pass: children, birthday parties. At dinner parties, I'll be odd man out, forcing people to arrange five chairs around a table instead of four or six. Or, okay, let's say maybe twenty years down the line I meet someone nice and I've already given up on ever finding true love. Let's say the girl is a few pounds overweight, has fizzy hair and an annoying laugh, but at this point, I'm also a few pounds overweight and my hair is thinning and my laughter is annoying. Maybe then the two of us get married, and both our groups of friends will say, 'See I told you that you'd find true love. It just took a while.' And we'll smile, but we'll both know it's a lie-- — Michael Anthony

The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today — B.K.S. Iyengar

Your values form the foundation of your life. They also form the foundation of your dreams. And just as each person's values are unique, so are each person's dreams. — Beverly K. Bachel

You truly do have the power to reach your goals. — Beverly K. Bachel

You're unstoppable as long as you keep taking the next step. — Beverly K. Bachel

A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The foundation of adult trust is not "You will never hurt me." It is "I trust myself with whatever you do. — David Richo

When going for your goals, staying motivated, enthusiastic, and flexible are daily deeds of daring. — Beverly K. Bachel

There are 1,440 minutes in every day. How are you using yours? — Beverly K. Bachel

He tilted my chin up and I swear those lips are magic. Witchcraft. Sorcery. Whatever it is in those lips, it's addictive. Unassailable. I had to have more. More of this feeling of being wanted. — Taylor Rhodes

Ask yourself exactly what you want in your life - now and in the future. If you were given the opportunity to do or have anything, what would it be, and why? — Beverly K. Bachel

No matter how much (or how little) help someone provides, always say thanks. Thank yous are simple but important. — Beverly K. Bachel

Fully experiencing the connection that exists between us all is the secret to true contentment. — Simon Boylan

Christian mission is not simply about the multiplication of the church; it is about the discipling of the nations. It is about the penetration of cultures and ways of thought by the word about Christ. — Andrew F. Walls

Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow. — John F. Kennedy

It's up to you to make your dreams real. — Beverly K. Bachel

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it. — Jules Shear

I told my parents I was going to be a doctor and then a lawyer, but I never believed it and never tried. — Dinaw Mengestu

To make your goals savvy, keep them both personal (meaningful to you and aligned with your values) and positive (so you feel good about what you're trying to accomplish. — Beverly K. Bachel

I drank from the crisp mountain stream, tasting filtered sky with a mossy undertone. I've never understood how being loved fully could change your entire perspective of the world. I only ever understood the wistfulness of it, and the longing and the frothy, violent bits. The mixed up, rained on parts. The escaped bits that smudge and bleed through. Slowly, I am coming to terms with how vulnerable I am to you, flat on my back like a submissive wolf pup. Daisy petals line your eyelashes, juice of a nectarine flavors your tongue. The side of your mouth twitches, hazy dreamscapes overtaking your mind while we bathe in the glorious autumn devastation. — Taylor Rhodes

If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about! — Barbara Ann Mojica

There are so many entertainment options - Netflix, Amazon, Hulu - and especially for younger people, who are Internet-savvy and video game fans. — Toby Emmerich

Twins need to know that they can be alone without their twin. — Joan A. Friedman

War on Iraq runs the risk of turning the Middle East into an inexhaustible recruiting ground for anti- western terrorism. — Douglas Hurd

The smell of cigarette smoke in the air in a tavern that changes names often,
a bar cursed because of a girl who died of a drug overdose
in the basement, we put a few coins in the jukebox;
chose "Angel Band" by Johnny Cash and sat down at the bar,
ordered a soda, you wanted a whiskey on the rocks.
We saw the coal miner who moved here from West Virginia
knocking back liquor like I drink sweet tea.
No one asked why he was so solemn today.
It was warm. It was relatively quiet.
To anyone else, this place could feel sinister.
But to us, it was freedom. It was a hiding place.
No one was ever here long enough to know us.
And we liked it that way. — Taylor Rhodes

The biggest regrets people have aren't about what they did, but what they didn't do. — Beverly K. Bachel

We change for the good so long as good exists around us. — Michael Lewis

The more often you visualize your success and the more details you envision, the more motivated you'll feel. — Beverly K. Bachel

How easily we abandon those who have suffered the same persecutions as we have. How quickly we grow impatient with their inability to transcend the conditions of our lives. — Larissa Lai

Attitude plays a bigger role than you may imagine in determining your future success - bigger than talent, money, or popularity. — Beverly K. Bachel

The most meaningful hopes and dreams don't come from outside sources - they come from within. — Beverly K. Bachel

One of the very few valid criticisms of Queen Victoria is that she was not sufficiently concerned with improvement of the conditions in which a great mass of her subjects passed their lives. She lived through an age of profound social change, but neither public health, nor housing, nor the education of her people, nor their representation, engaged much of her time. — Cecil Woodham-Smith

Your supporters can help you think in new ways, solve problems, and burst through barriers. — Beverly K. Bachel