Jga Beacon Quotes & Sayings

I try never to wear my own clothes, I pretend I'm someone else. — David Byrne

Because you make me laugh don't make you a comic. A comedian is a person who, that's how they make their living. — Dick Gregory

Charity is like warmth in springtime or summer that causes grass, plants, and trees to grow. Without charity, or spiritual warmth, nothing grows. — Emanuel Swedenborg

Were not there you, I'd be not too. — Karen Marie Moning

You hear about these shows where there are all these women are supposedly always in a catfight, and then you find out in reality that they're all getting along fine. — Jeanne Tripplehorn

Then his eyes glazed over for a second. 'I go places sometimes,' he told me, his voice as thready as his eyes. 'Don't know why I go places ... I just do. — Neal Shusterman

Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do? — Clark Blaise

I keep remembering one of my Guru's teachings about happiness. She says that people universally tend to think that happiness is a stroke of luck, something that will maybe descend upon you like fine weather if you're fortunate enough. But that's not how happiness works. Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don't you will eat away your innate contentment. It's easy enough to pray when you're in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. — Elizabeth Gilbert

You have an incredible body. He reaches out to touch my stomach. I feel no pleasure in his compliment or his touch, only impatience. This is the only feeling. I feel like the paper on which my mood chart is printed. — Augusten Burroughs

CHAPTER XLIII WHEREIN IS SHOWN HOW THE ARTFUL DODGER GOT INTO TROUBLE — Charles Dickens

Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion. — Ray Davies

We work in the best of our abilities. — Lailah Gifty Akita

We live in the country. I'm a redneck. No, ha-ha. I live in L.A. County, but more in the hills. Not in the fancy kind! Trust me; whatever you do you do not want to come to my neighborhood! — Atticus Shaffer

The prejudice of Englishmen, in favour of their own government by king, lords and commons, arises as much or more from national pride than reason. — Thomas Paine

Music tells a lot about a person. — Colleen Hoover