Tuskawilla Quotes & Sayings

What is forgiving? Forgiving is giving up all claims on the one who has hurt you and letting go of the emotional consequences of the hurt. How can we do that? It's done at the price of beating back our pride. By nature we are selfish. Forgiving by definition is unselfish. Being hurt by another person wounds our pride. Pride stands in the way of forgiving. We cannot forgive without God's help. It might be possible for us to forgive something inconsequential without God's help; but in significant matters, we're unlikely to accomplish anything without God's involvement in the process. — Richard Walters

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable. — Simon Baker

I can be cuddly. Corbin's voice dropped and his eyes were hooded. And tender, and gentle, and passionate. — Evangeline Anderson

For Philistines like me, the mysteries of Washington can be both perplexing and wondrous. — David Harsanyi

Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly. — Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

It is through our extended family that we first learn to compromise and come to an understanding that even if we don't always agree about things we can still love and look out for each other. — Sara Sheridan

Laws, it is said, are for the protection of the people. It's unfortunate that there are no statistics on the number of lives that are clobbered yearly as a result of laws: outmoded laws; laws that found their way onto the books as a result of ignorance, hysteria or political haymaking; antilife laws; biased laws; laws that pretend that reality is fixed and nature is definable; laws that deny people the right to refuse protection. A survey such as that could keep a dozen dull sociologists out of mischief for months. — Tom Robbins

The B'nai B'rith is established by Jews in New York City as a Masonic Lodge. 70 years later this group will establish the notorious Anti-Defamation League, designed to promote any critics of Jewish supremacism or criminality, as, anti-Semitic. — Anonymous

The ability to feel fear and keep moving forward distinguishes the living from the merely breathing. — Nicholas Lore

You make the decision: Whom did God punish? — Louis Sachar

I realized that a surf trip on a jet can be like a road trip. If you see a road you want to turn down, you can just go there. — Nick Woodman