Motivational Sparks Quotes & Sayings

Brokeback Mountain is a sad love story about two people who can't be together, and the reason that they can't be together is because being gay is a stigmatized thing. It would be interesting to have the same movie in which the two guys weren't in the closet and there was no shame about them being gay and they couldn't be together for other reasons. I still feel like we're a long way from that happening. — Wesley Morris

But there's one thing that I understand, and it is that when all those emotional vertebrae broke and reformed they had a different quality. They began to have a word-making, listen-to-me quality. They began to know they were worth more. — Cara Ellison

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something. — Jared Sparks

Motivation always sparks a fire within us. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant. There is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks. — Johann Gottfried Von Herder

I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair. — Catherynne M Valente

The Christian life is not only about simplicity of dependence and intention, but also about a simplicity of affection. We give up all vain attempts to self-medicate our souls with the broken-cistern pleasures of the world. The simple Christian looks to God alone to supply him with spiritual joys, understanding that there will be times when those joys may be withheld by God for a divinely appointed reason. Yet, because he aims to live for God's glory alone, he looks to God alone for his soul's pleasure (Ps. 86:4). — Tony Reinke

Cancerous tissues and cancerous issues should be sorted, well in time. — Piyush Kaviraj

The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them. — John Desmond Bernal

Intercession means raising ourselves up to the point of getting the mind of Christ regarding the person for whom we are praying. — Oswald Chambers

I was so busy planning for tomorrow that I had nothing done today. — Keri L. Sparks

I never want readers to be comfortable, to feel like we're in a comedy or a drama. Life is never just one of those things. Life is a balance of all those things. — Brian K. Vaughan

He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions.
— Stephen Leacock