Gratitude Pinterest Quotes & Sayings

my body, my work, my voice, my confidence, my power, my determination to demand a life as potent, vibrant, public, and complex as any man's. — Lindy West

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came. — Ed Asner

I always was a rebel ... but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted ... and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not. — John Lennon

This is how I healed. Or didn't. One evening I took her down to the river. We turned off the highway and rattled slowly up the gravel road and into the heart of the canyon. The walls closed in above us, the high blue of the sky deeper, deep and dark like a river is deep. The highest rock at the rim was a strip of fire, holding the last long sun. The old gorge was a vessel and it was filling with shadow, slowly and with wind. — Peter Heller

A big part of willpower is having something to aspire to, something to live for. — Mark Shuttleworth

In the attempt to be "relevant" one may fall into syncretism, and in the effort to avoid syncretism one may become irrelevant. — Lesslie Newbigin

Even while he'd been gone, she'd always know he was /there/, sharing the same planet with her, walking the same earth. — Julia Quinn

I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him. — C.S. Lewis

You're acting like a child! was one brave reporter's response when I denied his interview.
Was I acting like child?
No, I didn't think I was. They didn't understand any of this if they thought that.
You know, sometimes I wanted to take their hands and place the truth in it. I wanted to give them everything I had. Sometimes I wanted to act like they treated me and show them how childish I could be. I wanted to give them the weight of everything I felt and let them be the goddamn judge of this shit.
Sometimes I wanted to vent, scream, and give it all away. Here, you take my talent. Take my life you feel the need to criticize every moment of the day. Take everything I have and you deal with the shit. You see what you can make of it since you seem to think I'm doing so badly.
I wanted them to feel the pressure, the inadequateness, the letdown, all of it. — Shey Stahl

When I moved, the broker had told me there was something good for the brain about living near the sea, something about ions. But I often felt like the water was insulting me, like, I'm beautiful and endless - what are you doing with your life? — Anna North

We have to realize a kid will love us one day and hate us the next. That cannot change who we are and what we are about. — Joe Paterno