Loudiene Quotes & Sayings

Without exposure to potential failure, there is no risk. — Brennan Manning

Empowerment means that you have the power or authority to do something. Someone has given you, or you have given yourself the authority and/or permission to move forward on a particular task. — Shantera Chatman

This was what I came to found. The conquest of loneliness was the missing link that was one day going to make a decent novelist out of me. If you are out here and cannot close off the loves and hates of all that back there in the real world the memories will overtake you and swamp you and wilt your tenacity. Tenacity stamina ... close off to everything and everyone but your writing. That s the bloody price. I don t know maybe it's some kind of ultimate selfishness. Maybe it's part of the killer instinct. Unless you can stash away and bury thoughts of your greatest love you cannot sustain the kind of concentration that breaks most men trying to write a book over a three or four year period. — Leon Uris

At its very core the story of Easter has nothing to do with angelic announcements or empty tombs. It has nothing to do with time periods, whether three days, forty days, or fifty days. It has nothing to do with resuscitated bodies that appear and disappear or that finally exit this world in a heavenly ascension. — John Shelby Spong

You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying. To the best you can do everyday. — Jason Mraz

I don't use a hat as a prop. I use it as a part of me. — Isabella Blow

We are half mechanical [physical] and half mysterious [spiritual]; to live in either domain and ignore the other is to be fools or fanatics ... We have to WORK OUT in the mechanical realm what God WORK IN in the mysterious realm. — Oswald Chambers

As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough. — Laozi

because my childhood became all about prediction, I learned to live in the future. I didn't feel things in the present because I wanted to be a moving target, gone to the future before any blow could really be felt. — Gavin De Becker

We need a doer, not a talker. — Bobby Jindal