Homesteader Quotes & Sayings

If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently — Aaron Scheidies

When we let ourselves respond to poetry, to music, to pictures, we are clearing a space where new stories can root, in effect we are clearing a space for new stories about ourselves. — Jeanette Winterson

Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. — James Redfield

Once one cheats him or herself, then, that person subconsciously or consciously will cheat whoever crossed his/her path. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Strong moral character results from consistent correct choices in the trials and testing of life. Your faith can guide you to those correct choices. — Richard G. Scott

Sometimes it has seemed to me that life is a series of punishments for such moments of unawareness, that one forges one's own destiny by what one doesn't notice or feel compassion for; that what you don't know and don't make the effort to understand will become the very thing you are forced into knowledge of. — Rachel Cusk

The story is not in the plot but in the telling. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Neither concepts nor mathematical formulae can explain the infinite. — Eckhart Tolle

From the moment that the first plow blade bit into the crust, the homesteaders began to destroy the foundations of their new life, and in a very few years the crust was gone
used up, scattered, blown away by the dry summer winds. — Jonathan Raban

Knowing, glorifying and loving God are difficult to quantify, so we seldom include them in the evaluation process. We are tempted to evaluate goals that are easy to measure but that are much less significant. The final evaluation of leadership and of organizations is to ask, Did our efforts, programs, finances, structures and leadership style bring glory to God? Did these help people to know and love God? Too often we merely ask, Did the organization grow under my leadership? Did the budget increase? Did we plant more churches? Instead we must ask, Did the budget make God glad? Do people in the churches we planted truly love God more deeply? The fact that we will never be able to precisely quantify and evaluate the ultimate purpose must not dissuade us from being passionate about God's glory. The Lord will likely give us glimpses or indications of leadership effectiveness, but most of the critical outcomes will only be known in eternity. — James E. Plueddemann

They think they're runnin' the country but all they're doin' is writin' the reports." From Homesteader; Finding Sharon by D.M. McGowan — D. M. McGowan

I'm not crazy when I replace everything that people consider as a stability, safety and wealth with the right to think of the moment I had spent with you. — Jihad Eltabey

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani

I know what I know of you," he whispered into my ear, his breath hot. "And I want to know more. — Karina Halle

It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so. — Ernestine Rose

Practically any Western has a homesteader in trouble, and a mysterious rider shows up off the range, solves the problem over two or three days, and then rides off into the sunset. — Lee Child

You do not say no to the girl with the deities. — Sarah Beth Durst