Quotes & Sayings About Smiling Through Tough Times

Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, it's understanding the necessity of both; it's engaging. It's being all in. — Brene Brown

Nine copies of "Presidential Perversions", an erotic novel describing the adventures of "Dick Studley, the 69th President of the Uninhibited Sexings of America"; the print in the books is badly misaligned, the covers have been stripped off, and the books have been marked with a "REJECTED" stamp. Of note is that President Studley's sexual partners are of five distinct genders. — Anonymous

What courage must a human possess to stand at ease and witness the birth of the sun. — Bo Bryan

When you reach out to those you need to forgive, it is you that will be touched and healed. — Bryant McGill

President Obama's version of America is a divided one - pitting us against each other based on our income level, gender, and social status. His policies have failed! We are not better off than we were 4 years ago, and no rhetoric, bumper sticker, or campaign ad can change that. — Mia Love

The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again. — Eudora Welty

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous. — C. Robert Cargill

Hundreds of hysterical persons must confuse these phenomena with messages from the beyond and take their glory to the bishop rather than the eye doctor. — James Thurber

Certitude is strength and suspicion is worthless, and worry over suspicion is something less than that. I — R.A. Salvatore

And you cared about me long before I could even begin to try to deserve you." "Don't — Lauren Blakely

He soon decided that almost any fact could be accepted calmly after it had already happened. Men would be just as calm after their cities had been reduced to rubble. The human capacity for calmness was almost unlimited, ex post facto, because the routine of daily living had to go on, despite the big business of governments whose leaders invoked the Deity in the cause of slaughter. — Walter M. Miller Jr.

I feel like, like, how you matter is defined by the things that matter to you. You matter as much as the things that matter to you. — John Green

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should. — Vartan Gregorian

Our technological powers increase, but the side effects and potential hazards also escalate. — Alvin Toffler