Short Adoptee Quotes & Sayings

But in the end it is only a passing thing ... this shadow. Even darkness must pass. - Samwise Gamgee, The Two Towers — J.R.R. Tolkien

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment — Goswami Kriyananda

Prayer doesn't change things - God changes things in answer to prayer. — John Calvin

I wished my heart would break and get it over with. — Banana Yoshimoto

I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing. — Jack Prelutsky

I have one of the original 'Ghostbusters' guns in my house. — Jason Reitman

Then, who is Matilda?' I asked.
Toby tilted his cup and poked at the slush with his straw. 'I suppose Matilda's the girl who felt like home. — Carol Rifka Brunt

You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult. — Ezra Koenig

Well, I may not have a framed Latin diploma, but I know crazy talk when I hear it. Alcohol has been an important part of the human diet for thousands of years. The Bible is filled with references to people drinking alcohol, such as this quotation from the Book of Effusions, Chapter Eight, Verse Six, Row 7: — Dave Barry

Image is what people perceive my life to be. It's nothing like the truth. — David Hasselhoff

Lost'

Stand still.
The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost.
Wherever you are is called Here,
And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
Must ask permission to know it and be known.
The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
I have made this place around you,
If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.

No two trees are the same to Raven.
No two branches are the same to Wren.
If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
You are surely lost. Stand still.
The forest knows Where you are.
You must let it find you. — David Whyte

I am always begging them to spare me this chasing after men. — Joan Leslie

Regret is ... an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today. — Gerald Lawson Sittser