Frandy Oaks Quotes & Sayings

It is wrong to condemn people for doing a thing and then offer no alternative but failure. A person could get mad about that. — Wendell Berry

Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. — Alice Childress

Absence, hear thou my protestation
Against that strength,
Distance and length. — John Hoskins

She had no experience of crushing on someone like that. She hadn't realized before how frightening it was to look a dream in the face. To realize how much it could change you live, and how much it could demand of you. — Jillian Hart

Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation. — Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Some stories are real. And a lot of stories that aren't real are still true. — Janette Rallison

We do as much harm holding onto programs and people past their natural life span as we do when we employ massive organizational air strikes. However, destroying comes at the end of life's cycle, not as a first response. — Margaret J. Wheatley

Sometimes you don't need to do anything really courageous to feel like a hero. Sometimes all you have to do is live your life and claim it. Then you can get to a certain moment when you can stand somewhere and think about where you've been and where you are now and the journey you've traveled to get there. Sometimes, that's all you need to do. — Diana Bletter

It occurred to him to say the viddui, the prayer before death. He struggled to remember it. Blessed are You, who has bestowed me with many blessings. May my death atone for all I have done ... and may I shelter in the shadow of Your wings in the World to Come. — Helene Wecker