Notchd Quotes & Sayings

The optimistic style of explaining good events is the opposite of that used for bad events: It's internal rather than external. — Martin Seligman

Just keep going - no feeling is final. — Rainer Maria Rilke

It's no secret that I love the Ultimate line. — Robert Kirkman

Hospitality is the act of making people feel at home - when you wish they were. — Renee Garrison

Christ says, Give me All. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it. No half-measures are any good ... Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked
the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you Myself: my own will shall become yours. — C.S. Lewis

I am the bird of the spiritual Garden,
not of this world of dust; for a few days,
they have a cage of my body made. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Hope is not a matter of waiting for things outside of us to get better. It is about getting better inside about what is going on outside. — Joan D. Chittister

And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one. — Stephen Graham Jones

that I have read many books, but to little purpose, for want of good method; I have confusedly tumbled over divers authors in our libraries, with small profit, for want of art, order, memory, judgment. — Robert Burton

Education, in its highest sense, is conscious training of mind or body to act unconsciously. It is conscious formation of mental habits, not mere acquisition of information. — William George Jordan

We all have secrets, Beth."
"Not like mine."
"Okay, I'll tell you one of my secrets and make it fair."
She gave me a sidelong glance. "You don't have to do that."
"I know. Strangely, I want to tell you all my secrets. — Pamela Sparkman

I think that one of the benefits of optimism and idealism is that they lead you into things you would never have tried if you'd let yourself imagine how hard it was going to turn out to be. — Romeo Dallaire

If we girls aren't strong, we can't protect the boys we love. — Naoko Takeuchi

And then she realized that after that Christmas party, she didn't really lose anything, except respect for everyone. — Crystal Woods