Maddee James Quotes & Sayings

You see, I want a lot.
Maybe I want it all:
the darkness of each endless fall,
the shimmering light of each ascent.
So many are alive who don't seem to care.
Casual, easy, they move in the world
as though untouched.
But you take pleasure in the faces
of those who know they thirst.
You cherish those
who grip you for survival.
You are not dead yet, it's not too late
to open your depths by plunging into them
and drink in the life
that reveals itself quietly there. — Rainer Maria Rilke

A busybody's work is never done. — A. N. Wilson

Words can make you sick. Or healed. - Words create worlds because the universe is always listening ... and so are your cells, your psyche, and your children, your team, and the apples — Danielle LaPorte

The price of order," I muttered. I tried to run the dog off. It wouldn't budge.
"The cost of chaos," Tom-Tom countered. Thump on his drum. "Not quite the same thing, Croaker. — Glen Cook

Like all writers, I draw from life as I know it; but it's a refracted kind of reality, and none of it is factually true. — Jennifer Haigh

Some say that this is the Israelis' original sin. With this I do not agree but I think we can call it Israel's immaculate misconception. — Avishai Margalit

The charm of fame is so great, that we like every object to which it is attached, even death. — Blaise Pascal

We know, then, what human father-hood ought to look like on the basis of how our Father God behaves toward us. But the reverse is also true. We see something of the way our God is fatherly toward us through our relationships with human fathers. — Russell D. Moore

There were times, I'm sure you knew, when I bit off more than I could chew. But through it all, when there was doubt, I ate it up and spit it out. — Paul Anka

Man is forming thousands of ridiculous relations between himself and God . — Michel De Montaigne

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it. — Richard Brookhiser

It is really most absurd to wish to turn this scene of misery into a pleasure spot and set ourselves the goal of achieving pleasures and joys instead of freedom from pain, as so many do. Those who, with too gloomy a gaze, regard this world as a kind of hell and, accordingly, are only concerned with procuring a fireproof room in it, are much less mistaken. The fool runs after the pleasures of life and sees himself cheated; the sage avoids evils. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Happiness is a shadow of harmony; it follows harmony. There is no other way to be happy. — Rajneesh