Boekhoudt Rose Quotes & Sayings

Pain heightens every sense. More powerfully than any drug, it intensifies colors, sounds, sight, feelings. Pain is like a glass wall. It is impossible to climb it, but you must, and, somehow, you do. Then there is an explosion of brilliance and the world is more apparent in its complexity and beauty. — Suzanne Massie

I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else. — Craig Ferguson

The truth of the matter is, we all come to prayer with a tangled mass of motives - altruistic and selfish, merciful and hateful, loving and bitter. — Richard J. Foster

People exaggerate Corruption in Nigeria. It is not
even our first or second problem, maybe the third — Atiku Abubakar

The ability to discern truth comes from learning, growing, and understanding the Bible. — Elizabeth George

He expects nothing, she thought, because he's never had anything. And nothing was expected of him. He was free in a way she never would be. — Cinda Williams Chima

We were not a crew; we were only here at the same time. — Rosemary McGuire

He starts to whisper a prayer. "Whatever beings there are, may they be free from suffering. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from enmity. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from hurtfulness. Whatever beings there are, may they be free from ill health. Whatever beings there are, may they be able to protect their own happiness. — Karen Connelly

But there sometimes comes a moment, a small, silent white explosion of awareness. — Anne Rivers Siddons