Rhyannon Stanley Quotes & Sayings

I woke to the sound of rain. — Sylvia Plath

The first step to be taken by one who wishes to follow Christ is, according to Our Lord's own words, that of renouncing himself - that is, his own senses, his own passions, his own will, his own judgement, and all the movements of nature, making to God a sacrifice of all these things, and of all their acts, which are surely sacrifices very acceptable to the Lord. And we must never grow weary of this; for if anyone having, so to speak, one foot already in Heaven, should abandon this exercise, when the time should come for him to put the other there, he would run much risk of being lost. — St. Vincent

I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs,
For happy lovers passed two by two where I stood;
And I dreamed my lost love came stealthily out of the wood
With her cloud-pale eyelids falling on dream-dimmed eyes ... — William Butler Yeats

our love is proved when we love those who are not beautiful, who wound with word or deed. When we love not out of pity, or even for their sakes, but for our own. And here is the secret: they do not wound us, as Yaweh does not wound us. We wound ourselves by allowing the offense. And so Yaweh commands forgiveness for our own healing. Because in honoring ourselves - and others as ourselves - we please and honor Yaweh, who looks not on what a person does, but on the heart." I — Tosca Lee

I never wanted to feel I hadn't worked hard enough. — Kristi Yamaguchi

As I near the end of my life...
I have determined that
Most of the things I have learned
Will be of little value to me
At the end of my Life". — Stephen Wehunt

Real dialogue is where two or more people become willing to suspend their certainty in each other's presence. — David Bohm

Love is the one emotion actors allow themselves to believe. — James Spader

- Why are you helping me? she asked abruptly. He paused for a moment in thought. Because you need it, he said, and because I can. — Ted Oswald

What Americans call cross-ventilation, the English call draughts. — Hermione Gingold

Courage is worthy of respect when displayed in the maintenance of legitimate claims and in the repelling of aggressions, bodily or other. Courage is worthy of yet higher respect when danger is faced in defence of claims common to self and others, as in resistance to invasion. Courage is worthy of the highest respect when risk to life or limb is dared in defence of others. — Herbert Spencer