Reesmans Excavating Quotes & Sayings

Values What we value is what we love and assign importance to. Often we do not take responsibility for what we value. We are caught up in valuing the approval of men rather than the approval of God (John 12:43); because of this misplaced value, we miss out on life. We think that power, riches, and pleasure will satisfy our deepest longing, which is really for love. When — Henry Cloud

But I may also be afraid.
I am afraid.
I have already read it. And, not to lie to you, I liked it. But I am afraid. I am not afraid of you, Fidelia, Sania, Ania. I am afraid of you.
(I put all this in my separate notebook. My doubtbook.) — Helene Cixous

The rockets ... can be built so powerfully that they could be capable of carrying a man aloft. — Hermann Oberth

It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual weakness, the shallowness of our convictions. — Learned Hand

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner. — Daniel Lapin

Most writers flourish greatly on a simple, healthy routine with occasional time off for gaiety. — Dorothea Brande

It was the particular feel of him that made me want to go back: everything that is said is said underneath, where, if it does matter, to acknowledge it is to let on to your embarrassment. That I love you makes me want to run and hide. — Jenny Boully

Without Melinda, you'd have no Camus."
I exhale. "I know." I know it to my fucking bones. — Hannah Moskowitz

Anyone longing to become a writer, for even a few moments of his life, will vainly weave fantastic events unless he has experienced that fall during which he doesn't know where or whether it will come to an end, and unless his longing for human contact awakens in him the strength to rise, purged, from the ashes. — Ivan Klima

The hope of immortality makes heroes of cowards. — Thomas Guthrie

To worship God is to admit that we are entirely contrary to Him, and that He is willing to make us like Himself. — Brother Lawrence

In the awakened state of Presence, aloneness becomes all-oneness. — Leonard Jacobson