Quindarius Russell Quotes & Sayings

Can you love or guide someone without any kind of expectation? — Laozi

My pastor has a saying that leads us all back to this point of surrender. Whenever we, as a staff, feel overwhelmed by the needs we can't meet, the complaints we can't soothe, or the people we can't appease, he reminds us, "There's a Lord for that." When the relationship fails, there's a Lord for that. When my child is unhappy at school, there's a Lord for that. When tragedy strikes, there's a Lord for that. When discouragement clouds, there's a Lord for that. — Nicole Unice

The painting rises from the brushstrokes as a poem rises from the words. The meaning comes later. — Joan Miro

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

It's just that,well,I'm gonna pull a Brad on you."
"You're going to start totally ignoring me? — Rachel Hawthorne

Back in those days there was still an unbroken stretch of heath that lay on the route of our excursions, all that was left of a heath that once had extended almost up to the town on the one side and almost to the little village on the other. Here the honeybees and white-gray bumblebees hummed over the fragrant blossoms of heather, and the beautiful gold-green beetles ran among the plants; here in the sweet clouds of the erica and the resinous bushes hovered butterflies that could be found nowhere else on this earth. — Theodor Storm

They wiped his paws on a good bath towel whenever he came in with wet feet, because they had not been married long enough to have an old bath towel, — Beverly Cleary

My actinic keratosis is a result of the triumphalism of the beach. The sun exacerbates it. — John Updike

Pangloss taught metaphysico-theologo-cosmonigology. — Voltaire

Our errors, mistakes, failures, and sometimes even our humiliations, were necessary steps in the learning process. However, they were meant to be means to an end - and not an end in themselves. When they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we consciously dwell on the error, or consciously feel guilty about the error and keep berating ourselves because of it, then - unwittingly - the error or failure itself becomes the "goal" that is consciously held in imagination and memory. — Maxwell Maltz

It is ironic that those who seek to blend and destroy individual racial identities are the biggest enemies of diversity, while simultaneously claiming to support diversity. The end result of that form of diversity is the exact opposite of their stated goal: the destruction of individual identities and ultimately, the destruction of diversity. — Arthur Kemp

But computers have changed the world for everyone, so there will be some way of working it out. — Debbie Harry

Everyone has their own different life experiences which make them who they are. No two people's life experiences are the same. And mine are just unique to me. — Keshia Knight Pulliam

The hardest thing about getting what you want is knowing what to do with it. — Patrick Hennessey

I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason. — Marci Shimoff