Jurandon Quotes & Sayings

Family is a choice?"
"It is?"
His thumb pressed into my palm firmly. "It's your choice. Parents and siblings are your relations. Family takes care of one another and helps each other. When each side is working together, when everyone wants it, that makes the difference. — C.L.Stone

When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers - the moon and the stars you set in place - 4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them, human beings that you should care for them? — Anonymous

A shy face is better than a forward heart. — Miguel De Cervantes

Hurrying, dragging, falling, crying, calling out names hopefully and hopelessly. — Zora Neale Hurston

. . . even the surprise of harmless others in the house disturbed me. I didn't want my inner rot on display, even accidentally. Living alone was frightening in that way. No one to police the spill of yourself, the ways you betrayed your primitive desires. Like a cocoon built around you, made of your own naked proclivities and never tidied into the patterns of actual human life. — Emma Cline

Live with caution. Life is fragile. — Lailah Gifty Akita

You stay elite by constantly moving forward. — Bob Myers

Long suffering had nearly annihilated all my ordinary powers of mind. I was an imbecile - an idiot. — Edgar Allan Poe

Do adults realize how lucky they are? Or do they forget that these small moments are actually small miracles? I don't want to ever forget. — Stephanie Perkins

Intelligence is to spot paradoxes. Wisdom is to live by them. — Raheel Farooq

Clara," he says, my name sounding different somehow when it passes through his lips. "I'll miss you. — Cynthia Hand

Jon wanted nothing more. No, he had to tell himself, those days are gone. The realization twisted in his belly like a knife. They had chosen him to rule. The Wall was his, and their lives were his as well. A lord may love the men that he commands, he could hear his lord father saying, but he cannot be a friend to them. One day he may need to sit in judgement on them, or send them forth to die. — George R R Martin

A window within the soul to see
Light and Magick I send with thee
Be strong, be brave, make the right choice
Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice
Know that I am watching from above
And that always, always, the answer is love! — P.C. Cast

And yes, there definitely are many good desires. For example, without the desire for food we would not stay alive. It is when our desire becomes an unquenchable craving or obsession, or causes us to do harm to ourselves or others, that it creates suffering and unhappiness. If you have ever been hurt because you tied your happiness or well-being to a person, place, opinion, self-identity, behavior, or goal, then you have firsthand experience of desire. — Don Altman

It is important to me to take care of my skin. In general I don't like to wear foundation; I'm not a fan of the look. I like my skin fresh and natural enough so my freckles show through. — Tracee Ellis Ross