Joi Friday Quotes & Sayings

We had one rule which was 'whatever you are feeling, that's okay' — Rick Warren

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness — Andre Gide

Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway. — Ray Stevenson

Doubt is not an offense. Questioning is a step toward understanding. I am riven by beauty. I am humbled by grace. I strive to be kind, but not because I was told to. — Laurie Seidler

Each victory with God can bring a reassurance once more that the ones born of God are victorious — Sunday Adelaja

For the greater good":
the phrase that always precedes
the greatest evil. — Jakub Bozydar Wisniewski

Motivation comes from within each individual. It's a personal thing. It's pride, guts, desire, whatever you want to call it; some people have it in their bellies, and some don't. — Mike Ditka

Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents' house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow teacups and matching gravy boats every day, slept on the same embroidered pillow, and played with the same small and amiable dog. Because she had been born in May, and because she had a mole on her left cheek, and because her feet were very large and ungainly, the Green Wind took pity on her and flew to her window one evening just after her twelfth birthday. — Catherynne M Valente

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment. — C.S. Lewis

My disappointments, instead of converging toward a center and constituting if not a system at least an ensemble, are scattered, each supposed itself unique and thereby wasted, lacking organization. — Emil M. Cioran

Peace is non-resistance, complete acceptance, identification with all, everyone, everything. — Lester Levenson