Meissa Journal With Pen Quotes & Sayings

To some degree...he has the same effect on people. People naturally flock to him. It's like he's giving off a light that I don't have. It's so bright I feel like I'll be extinguished. — Natsuki Takaya

There's no such thing as a self-made man. I've had much help and have found that if you are willing to work, many people are willing to help you. — B.C. Forbes

I was quite academic, quite geeky when I was a kid. I was more interested in going to school than I was in becoming a film star or something. — Bel Powley

Tatum plays so much piano it sounds impossible. The more I hear him, the more I want to give up the piano and drive a milk truck. — Eddie Heywood

The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. — Elbert Hubbard

Oh baby, he whispers. Steps back. Out of the doorway. His face ashen. He walks slowly back to the kitchen. Leans over the counter. Puts his head in his hands. His hair falls over his fingers.
The bathroom door clicks shut.
She stays there for a long time.
He's pulling his hair out. — Lisa McMann

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore. — Cheryl Strayed

When I was a child I wanted to be Pope. My greatest disappointment is missing out on that. I also wanted to be a tap dancer but I never fulfilled that ambition either. — Peter Ackroyd

There's nothing better than an actor who is really, really hungry to show everything they've got. — David O. Russell

Intuition tells me how to live my day, intuition tells me when to walk away. — Natalie Imbruglia

Poetry: Foolish Passion of My Youth
Poetry was the foolish passion of my youth,
forsaken for twenty years
to raise a family.
When I returned to poetry in this,
my Autumn years,
my childhood was returned.

Now Poetry raises me. — Beryl Dov

Ivy returned his direct gaze with a particularly innocent smile. "The great advantage," she said, "of being thought silly, is that people forget and begin to think one might also be foolish. I may, Professor Lyall, be a trifle enthusiastic in my manner and dress, but I am no fool. — Gail Carriger

My work has been the education I avoided. — William Zinsser

Even before my parents died, I felt all the responsibility to my family. I don't know why. In any business, any relationship, if something goes wrong, I feel I am to blame. It's something inside me. — Mikhail Prokhorov

There's a moment when love makes you believe in death for the first time. You recognize the one whose loss, even contemplated, you'll carry forever, like a sleeping child. All grief, anyone's grief ... is the weight of a sleeping child. — Anne Michaels