Monsees Missouri Quotes & Sayings

This intensification of inner life helped the prisoner find a refuge from the emptiness, desolation and spiritual poverty of his existence, by letting him escape into the past. — Viktor E. Frankl

You cannot make somebody love something. They must have love in their heart first. — Alexander McCall Smith

My activism is a result of my love. So whether it's trying to preserve the wilderness in Southern Utah or writing about an erotics of place, it is that same impulse - to try to make sense of the world, to try to preserve something that is beautiful, to ask the tough questions, the push the boundaries of what is acceptable. — Terry Tempest Williams

To move wild laughter in the throat of death?
It cannot be, it is impossible:
Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. — William Shakespeare

We're like America's little pit bull. They beat it, starve it, mistreat it, and once in a while they let it out to attack somebody. — Evan Wright

For anyone who knows what it is to weep over sin or loss or pain, Heaven offers a beautiful promise: one day God himself will wipe the tears from our eyes. And even better, one day he will transform those tears into laughter. The Lamb in the midst of the throne will be their shepherd, and he will guide them to springs of living water, and God will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Revelation 7:17 — Randy Alcorn

Which got me to wondering whether it's possible to learn how to be a person in a world where all the people are dead. — John Green

All the sadness, all the hurt in the past making this moment all the sweeter. If pain is the weight of being, love is the purpose. — Pierce Brown

Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become even more toxic and plundered. — Sharon E. Rainey

I distinctly heard the blackbird from the top of a spruce tree, and clear as glass I heard the lark high up and several other birds whose song I did not know, and it was so weird, it was like a film without sound with another sound added, I was in two places at once, and nothing hurt.
'Yahoo!' I screamed, and could hear my own voice, but it seemed to be coming from a different place, from the great space where the birds sang, a bird's cry from inside that silence, and for a moment I was completely happy. — Per Petterson

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game. — Elton John

Hurts are just alerts, to rise above through love. — Bryant McGill