Taisiya Solzhenitsyna Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes people think that calling on God means inviting a force into our lives that will make everything rosy. The truth is, it means inviting everything into our lives that will force us to grow - and growth can be messy. The purpose of life is to grow into our perfection. Once we call on God, everything that could anger us is on the way. Why? Because the place where we go into anger instead of love, is our wall. Any situation that pushes our buttons is a situation where we don't yet have the capacity to be unconditionally loving. It's the Holy Spirit's job to draw our attention to that, and help us move beyond that point. — Marianne Williamson

One time they traded me for seven horses. Seven stunt horses. — James Stewart

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable. — Harvey Pekar

In other words, people who had substantive discussions with their doctor about their end-of-life preferences were far more likely to die at peace and in control of their situation and to spare their family anguish. A — Atul Gawande

You cannot be seeking yourself when you're making money. — Felix Dennis

I'll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back. — Sylvia Day

I descended into solitude so thick that conversations with repairmen became anxious social occasions. — Louisa Hall

Every time you hear a car alarm, Ruby said, another New Yorker has gone to hell. — Tom Spanbauer

Who has searched or sought
All the unexplored and spacious
Universe of thought?
Who, in his own skill confiding,
Shall with rule and line
Mark the border-land dividing
Human and divine? — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

We'll get fired for tardiness, or for stealing merchandise and selling it on eBay, or for having a customer complain about the smell of alcohol on our breath, or for taking five thirty-minute restroom breaks per shift. We talk about the value of hard work but tell ourselves that the reason we're not working is some perceived unfairness: Obama shut down the coal mines, or all the jobs went to the Chinese. These are the lies we tell ourselves to solve the cognitive dissonance - the broken connection between the world we see and the values we preach. We — J.D. Vance

About your incident. — Aimee L. Salter

I often get too emotionally involved in my cases. — Nancy Grace