Examples Of Pithy Quotes & Sayings

beauty is the currency of betrayal! — Eric Jerome Dickey

If somebody rejects you or your choices, you are still real, and you are still worth every bit as much as you would be if you had not been rejected. — Melody Beattie

Feeling real is more than existing; it is finding a way to exist as oneself ... and to have a self into which to retreat for relaxation. — Donald Woods Winnicott

The Dutchman [Brannenburg] was hard ... he was stone. His brain was eroded granite where the few ideas he had carved deep their ruts of opinion. There was no way for another idea to seep in, no place for imagination, no place for dreams, none for compassion or mercy or even fear.
He knew no shadings of emotion, he knew no half-rights or half-wrongs or pity or excuse, nor had he any sense of pardon. The more I thought of him the more I knew he was not evil in himself, and he would have been shocked that anybody thought of him as evil. Shocked for a moment only, then he'd have shut the idea from his mind as nonsense. For the deepest groove worn into that granite brain was the one of his own rightness.
And that scared me. — Louis L'Amour

Now I'm leaving
Any moment I'll be gone
I think you'll notice
I think you'll wonder what went wrong
I'm not choosing
But I'm running out of fight
And this was decided so long ago
It was last night — Gayle Forman

Over the years you encounter just about every kind of crime. It doesn't harden you, but you become capable of reporting on just about anything human beings can do. However, any time we're dealing with the murder of a child it is always difficult. — Catherine Crier

You mustn't throw them away. Let me have them. — Diane Samuels

All scripture points to one thing: life is about God. The process of moving from confused wandering to purpose and joy is marked by faith, by waiting on the Lord in ready obedience. — Ken Wytsma