Bendell Smith Quotes & Sayings

I win by taking risks. By standing out. Mom hates how I ride Tucker right past the judge as many times as possible in a class. She says it's showboating and it's tacky. Some judges don't like it. Long ago, though, I decided I'd rather win being me than lose by playing it safe. — Carolyn Lee Adams

And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music. — Roald Dahl

Music is pretty therapeutic. — Jamie Bell

If you can just get a broad enough perspective on your life ... you'll realize it's all unfolding perfectly. Right this very minute. — Paul Ian Guillermo

I think in the heart of every human being there burns an ember of hope that warmly entices us to believe everything will eventually come together into one perfect day, and that potentially the hours in this day will stretch on indefinitely. And so we live our lives in hopeful anticipation, dreaming and praying to reach this wondrous day, while in the process we miss out on the anxious affair that life truly is. Life is not perfection; it is everything else. We must taste and experience heartaches and trials in order to feel the genuine joy that comes from enduring them well. We then move on, wiser and more capable of charity - this being pure love and the reason for life's trials altogether. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I found out some really cool ways to swing around the Winchester. — Shane West

I'm so glad He has been teaching me to define His goodness based on who He is, not on my own limited understanding of Him. — Perry Noble

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones. — Francesca Lia Block

Many scorned women delude themselves that the past was negative and to be forgotten, whereas the present is positive and to be celebrated. But what they also forget is, at one time they celebrated that past, as the positive present. — Robert Black