Choosing One Friend Over Another Quotes & Sayings

People feel happier when they feel like they're progressing. When they feel like something in their life is growing or getting better. — Gretchen Rubin

The loss of that oral tradition and the breakdown of communication between generations had set my family adrift, floating aimlessly without history and all its accumulated experience to guide us. We need context, we need myths, we need family legends in order to see the invisible legacy that follows us, that tells us who we are. — Diane Wilson

It's always a risky business inviting somebody on stage. You never know what they're going to do. I try to avoid letting people join me onstage because it can be very distracting, and overly theatrical. — Nick Cave

I think that, when I die, it might be some time until I know it. — Dallas Willard

The night after we talked, Jason couldn't sleep. He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence. "She's not a bad girl," my friend said. "She was just choosing the best story available to her." I pictured his daughter flipping through the channels of life, as it were, stopping on a story that seemed most compelling at the moment, a story that offered her something, anything, because people can't live without a story, without a role to play. "So how did you get her out of it? — Donald Miller

Misery is when you always seem to be getting dressed in black to go to a funeral.
Misery is when you get there and realize that the person who is dead is another close friend.
Misery is when you look around and all your friends are crying.
Misery is when you hear them say they'll try to stop and stay away from this stuff.
Misery is when the next day you see them stocking up in White Clay for a party soon to come.
Misery is whenyou hear the sirens, and you have to sit and wonder whose funeral you'll be attending for the next few days.
Misery is when you realize they'll never stop,
and you'll always be choosing black clothing for the next day.

(Kayla Matthews, student) — Timothy P. McLaughlin

Death means you are in the third person. — Michael Ondaatje

Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum ... but come on down. We're going crazy. — Colin Mochrie

Destiny is not a matter of chance, but of choice.
Not something to wish for, but to attain — William Jennings Bryan

After all this time searching, i finally found what i was looking for; me. — Nikki Rowe

It's not just our job to minister to other peoples' needs. We also have to minister to their potential. — Tommy Barnett

A lot of the best acting training I had was in junior high and high school. We had very demanding directors and did real plays. You put our plays up against any theater troupe of any age, and they usually did pretty damn well. — Jello Biafra

Moroseness is the evening of turbulence. — Walter Savage Landor

In 'Serena,' stuff happens, then nastier stuff, without ever engaging the viewer's rooting interest or sick fear. Sometimes it's a question of sloppiness on the set or in the editing room. — Richard Corliss

I think it has sullied his presidency. As brilliant a politician as Bill Clinton is, as magnetic a personality as he can be, there is one little screw loose somewhere. — Morley Safer

I'm kind of a neat freak. My place is really organized. My socks are even organized: colors and sizes. — Ryan Guzman

To Me, The Best Part Of Success, Is The Journey! — Latif Mercado