Marquita Quotes & Sayings

I learned it was better to tiptoe through life and arrive at death's door safely. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

I cannot fail these girls by diverting my eyes from the invisible residue of slavery that clings to them like a shadow. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

The world is starving for great love. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

People will always try to find themselves and their place in the world. — Mickey Hart

It is about doing the most good with the only two hands I can control. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

...he'd say whatever she wanted him to if she kept looking at him like that. — Marquita Valentine

Illusions of freedom will never satisfy me. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

I think bravery is a lot less formal than it sounds. Bravery is being able to have a conversation with a stranger. It's going back to school even after years of being away. It's being you even when it's easier to be someone else. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Love isn't jealous. It's kind and patient. It's accepting--it's late night talks and early morning kisses. It's arguing and making up. It's life with the one you can't live without. — Marquita Valentine

The success of any man with any woman is apt to displease even his best friends. — Madame De Stael

Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?' — Lajos Egri

Bravery is an amazing and aggressive teacher. Its gives me the energy to dive into life, recover from disappointment, and mentally escape whatever locked door holds me in. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Does he expect the flood to just move out of his way if he asks nicely? — Tanya Huff

No matter what chains are broken, slavery is a condition of the heart. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Couples fight, but it's how you make up that counts. — Marquita Valentine

While many of us give to the hungry orphan, we have forgotten to love her. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

No matter how unfamiliar my world becomes, I can always find my way home when I dance. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

I want a love that makes me burn and melt and gives me every gooey feeling in the world. I want a morning kisses and late-night talk kind of love. I want a eat dessert naked in bed kind of love." I take a deep breath. "I want a man who chooses to love me --in good times and bad, because I'm going to chose to love him right back. We won't be perfect, nothing's perfect but it would be my kind of perfect love. — Marquita Valentine

He'd said he couldn't keep me. That didn't mean I wouldn't always be his . — T.M. Frazier

Suffering has a noble purpose. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

The road less traveled continues to beckon me onward, towards a journey of transformation and engagement. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

My phone vibrates and I glance at it.
Good night. Rae
That little heart emoticon gives me the goofiest swell of emotion in history. Hell, I think I could give Wyatt a run for his money. He's the king of goof.
Night. I add a heart because it seems like the appropriate thing to do. Guess that makes me the king of goof's bitch? Or is that love's bitch?
Either way, this girl owns me. — Marquita Valentine

When the statistics have a face, poverty becomes personal. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

My life is too valuable to remain shielded and protected behind the coziness and comfort of security. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy? — Robert Harris

She slowly stands up, grabbing her bag on the way out the door. She turns back at the last minute, silhouetted in the fading light from outside the doorway.
"Kai?"
I drag myself off the floor. The way she said my name, waiting for me to follow. I know now I would do anything to stay with her. — Dannielle Wicks

No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy. — Mahatma Gandhi

Those who suffer suffer because hurt people hurt people, and busy people let it happen. So am I going to be busy or am I going to be brave? — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

If somebody tries to tell me the earth was created in 7 days I take a fossil and say "FOSSIL". If he still won't shut up I throw it at him. — Lewis Black

I look up to the sky and scream to the wind, 'Give me adventure.' She whispers back, 'You are braver than you know. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

I think I was born stubborn, that's all, — Patricia Neal

Love is the beginning of significance. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

Time could not wreck the perfect symmetry of those walls, nor the site itself, a jewel in the hollow of a hand. — Daphne Du Maurier

Forget about where you want to be and go out and build stuff. Dodgeball came from being bored at work ... things happen because you make them happen. Stop sketching, and start building. — Dennis Crowley

Suffering reminds us of our brokenness, our humanity. It disarms us of our self-absorption and magnifies our need for one another. — Marquita Burke-DeJesus

developing resilience is by necessity a very personal journey. — Marquita Herald

Compassion for oneself requires a willingness to step OUTside your own story and see it with loving eyes; the courage to recognize truth and follow new leads; the wish for your own heart to heal and the intention to add a vibrant rhythm to enhance the greater dance around you as you begin to join in. — Laurie Perez