John Mason Inspirational Quotes & Sayings

I don't care about anybody being handsome", she said, "but I never did go for anybody that reminded me of a box of spilled spaghetti. All elbows and dry rattle. — Robert Penn Warren

Weeks and months are needed to accustom oneself to climbing. Otherwise, much energy is lost in clinging to the rock, maintaining too sure a hold, trying not to be too stiff, and worrying. After a while a climber warms to the mountains and can accomplish with little effort those things that once took all he had, for height gradually loses its meaning. Standing on the edge of a two-thousand-meter precipice becomes no less comfortable than sitting in a wicker chair on Capri, for it is possible to acquire some of the self-possession that enables mountain goats to stand for hours on a tiny ledge above an abyss. — Mark Helprin

You will never really understand your heart when things are going well. It is only when things go badly that you can see it truly. And that's because it is only when suffering comes that you realize who is the true God and what are the false gods of your lives. Only the true God can go with you through that furnace and out to the other side. The other gods will abandon you in the furnace. — Timothy Keller

The power of gratitude is the grace of fullness existence. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. — Ramsey Clark

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. — Diane Cilento

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life. — Francesca Marciano

Villains never know they are villains in a picture so I play this like I'm the nicest guy in the world. — Wayne Rogers

Let our scars fall in love. — Galway Kinnell

I think the next president ought to invoke the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments to the Constitution now that we clearly know that that baby inside the mother's womb is a person at the moment of conception. — Mike Huckabee

I have a giant baking book, so I close my eyes and pick a random page. Whatever it is, I try to bake it! — Nina Dobrev

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. — Mark Twain

The sin of Kibr (arrogance) is actually worse than many of the sins that we would be advising [other] people about. — Yasmin Mogahed