Settextsize Quotes & Sayings

To get here had been painful, but for once in my life I felt free. — Sarah Swainson

In order to truly forgive oneself, one must either explicitly or implicitly acknowledge that one's behavior was wrong and accept responsibility or blame for such behavior. Without these elements, self-forgiveness is irrelevant and pseudo self-forgiveness becomes likely. — Desmond Tutu

I'd say a little over a year ago I started doing TM [Transcendental Meditation] and that's really changed everything. — Jennifer Aniston

There is one thing that destroys anyone's ability to advance spiritually: the inability to control the mind and emotions. In order to free the mechanism for spiritual growth, this control is the first step in beginning a spiritual life. — Rudrananda

She decided that every time her father or her mother was beastly to her, she would get her own back in some way or another. A small victory or two would help her to tolerate their idiocies and would stop her from going crazy. — Roald Dahl

I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn't understand,
because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for this boy who loved a world that never loved him. — Marta Acosta

I've asked God to make it clear. He can either shut the door or open it. I don't want it unless He wants it for me. — Karen Kingsbury

Boys suck. Even when they have perfect blue eyes and ridiculously cool trucks. Maybe especially then. — Kiersten White

Already, with the city behind them, New York didn't feel quite real. As if reality only existed where she existed. — Maryanne O'Hara

And that is just the point ... how the world, moist and beautiful, calls to each of us to make a new and serious response. That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning. Here you are, alive. Would you like to make a comment? — Mary Oliver

Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have. — Elizabeth Bowen

Elder Jeffery R. Holland: So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can't quit and we can't go back. — Jeffrey R. Holland

People have obsessions and fears and passions which they don't admit to. I think every character is interesting and has extremes. It's the novelist privilege to see how odd everyone is. — Iris Murdoch