Arkhurst Settee Quotes & Sayings

Reading a book about something can be an obstacle to doing it because it gives you the impression that you are doing what you are only thinking about doing. It is tempting to remain in the comfortable theater of our imagination instead of the real world, to fall in love with the idea of becoming a saint and loving God and neighbor instead of doing the actual work, because the idea makes no demands on you. It is like a book on a shelf. But, as Dostoyevsky says, 'love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared to love in dreams' (The Brothers Karamazov). — Peter Kreeft

The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories. — Aldous Huxley

The multitude was a frothing octopus, pulsating anthropomorphically over the church steps. — Ondjaki

Children who have the freedom to explore a variety of things and discard them when they no longer make sense do not feel like failures when they choose to drop something. Instead they see it as another experience from which to learn a bit about something and a lot about themselves. This is a much better attitude than the child who is forced to stay, being told to suck it up and stick it out, who begins to feel powerless and resentful. As an adult this child is more likely, for example, to stay in an unhappy career so as not to look or feel like a failure, though he will definitely feel trapped. — Pam Laricchia

Healing is about making the choice to focus your thoughts on what feels energetically better at the level of your heart. — Susan Barbara Apollon

When you stop hoping you start settling. — Valorie Burton

If people all over the world, year after year, request that you do 'Revelations,' you do 'Revelations.' — Judith Jamison

The cost of discipleship is to live the life God has given us, serving in mundane ways the people he's put in our path. — Mark Galli

I don't give up easily. I have plans to be around for a while. — Lindsey Vonn

These days I wonder more and more why people are pessimistic when American history actually supports optimism. — Bell Hooks

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping. — Stephen Fry