Carelle Pierre Quotes & Sayings

Success does not bring happiness. Success brings success. — Joanie Holzer Schirm

You make your own future, Jade. Other people don't make it for you unless you let them. — Allie Everhart

And a name passed from the lips of each man to the next, written in small white puffs of breath. — George R R Martin

We could never predict what moment in the service would trigger a full-blown crisis of faith. Once, it was the kids' choir singing "Nothing but the Blood" during special music.
"Surely I'm not the only one who thinks it's creepy to hear all those little voices singing about getting washed in the flow of someone's blood," I muttered as Dan and I escaped out the double doors.
Another time it was a prayer about God granting our troops victory over their enemies as they served him in Iraq.
"Don't you think the Iraqis are just as convinced God is on their side?" I whispered.
Sometimes it was just the way people chatted in the fellowship hall about "those liberals," as if feminists or Democrats or Methodists couldn't possibly be in their midst.
Often it was the assumption that women were unfit to speak from the pulpit or pass the collection plate on Sunday mornings, but were welcome to serve the men their key lime pie at the church picnic. — Rachel Held Evans

Happiness and satisfaction always imply some desire fulfilled, some state of pain brought to an end. — Arthur Schopenhauer

This is Prue's funeral, can't we bury our sister in peace?! — Constance M. Burge