Intitiate Quotes & Sayings

You can't just cast aside family members because they seem uninterested in you. You've got to make the effort, because they're family. — J.D. Vance

There are a multitude of mothers in the world who have a daughter who is stolen, or who are stolen daughters themselves. — Tina Brown

The chief symptom of adolescence is a state of expectation, a tendency towards creative work, and a need for the strengthening of self-confidence. Suddenly, the child becomes very sensitive to the rudeness and humiliations which he had previously suffered with patient indifference. — Maria Montessori

God doesn't know things. He is things. — D.H. Lawrence

People struggled on for years with 'troubles,' but they almost always succumbed to 'complications. — Edith Wharton

Ultimately, all church mission statements have certain common threads. They contain a vertical dimension such as loving and obeying God. And they emphasize a horizontal dimension: how Christians treat those both inside and outside the church. They answer the question of why God left the church here on earth. The secret of success is not the wording but the fact that the people of the board have dug the mission statement out of the Bible for themselves, have decided to commit their church to it, and have made it theirs. — Carl F. George

My solo three-month hike on the Pacific Crest Trail had many beginnings. There was the first, flip decision to do it, followed by the second, more serious decision to actually do it, and then the long third beginning, composed of weeks of shopping and packing and preparing to do it. There was the quitting my job as a waitress and finalizing my divorce and selling almost everything I owned and saying goodbye to my friends and visiting my mother's grave one last time. — Cheryl Strayed

"Where do you get your ideas?" That's the one question I'm genuinely sick of being asked, and also genuinely fascinated by. What fascinates me is not that people ask the question, but what kind of answer are they really looking for? Because if I tell them the truth, which is "I make them up," they seem very disappointed. They want to know about the trek I do once a year to the mountain. — Neil Gaiman

What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things ... it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface. — Constantin Brancusi

It's possible to save oneself from Satan, Father Francis, but from men - never! — Nikos Kazantzakis

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it. — Charles Dickens

Depression and anxiety are two of the body's first reactions to stockpiles of hurt. Of course, there are organic and biochemical reasons we experience clinical depression and debilitating anxiety - causes over which we have no control - but unrecognized pain and unprocessed hurt can also lead there. — Brene Brown

Passion and hard work makes a great player, but the courage to get up every time you fall is what makes a champion. — Jeanette Lee

The way to deal with an impossible task was to chop it down into a number of merely very difficult tasks, and break each one of them into a group of horribly hard tasks, and each of them into tricky jobs, and each of them ... — Terry Pratchett