Crosswalk Community Quotes & Sayings

I would renounce, therefore, the attempt to create heaven on earth, and focus instead on reducing the hell. — Alan Borovoy

The way I perform best is with a clear and happy mind. — Scott Rolen

Most humans think the appearance of quiet is quiet. They do not see that sometimes the enemy is as quiet as the serpent. Only when it has stolen all of their eggs will they know bad walks in the quiet as well as the noisy. — Tamora Pierce

In my view, success is earned externally by being better than other people. But character, that sort of unfakeable goodness, is earned by being better than you used to be. And it's about self-confrontation. — David Brooks

Lord help me take the knife out of my back and not place it on my tongue. — Brenda DeMoss Lanz

Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us. — Vironika Tugaleva

This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don't jump in on your sentences, saving you from actually finishing them, or talk over you, allowing what you do manage to get out to be lost or altered in transit. Instead, they wait, so you have to keep going. — Sarah Dessen

If you live for fame, men may turn against you. — Matthew Simpson

I'm the oldest I've ever been, right now. — Tim Sylvia

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism. — Ransom Riggs

There is no curse on me, Tessa. The demon tricked me. There never was a curse. All these years, I've been a fool. But not so much a fool that I didn't know that the first thing I needed to do once I had learned the truth was tell you how I really felt — Cassandra Clare

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count. — Pope John Paul II

Her lip curled over her fangs. He tried to get onto his — S.M. Reine

Love can be so heartless when you turn out the light, a mutual surrender in the heat of the night. — Donny Osmond