Uncomplaining Wsj Quotes & Sayings

This was a new skill she'd acquired, the ability to look, to the outside world, utterly serene and even cheerful, while, in her skull, all was chaos. — Dave Eggers

[Death] was not at home by that time, he was in his yam garden. — Amos Tutuola

Who he was and who he will be are connected only by the fine, nearly invisible thread of who he is now. — Neal Shusterman

The truth is that life will break us and burn us at some point on the journey. This is not pessimistic or cynical but descriptive of the geography of being alive. It is part of how we are transformed by the journey. Yet when we're broken or burned by events, we feel betrayed by God. When we're broken or burned by people, we feel betrayed by other souls. — Mark Nepo

With hope, a mind is always free. — Amy Tan

Reincarnation doesn't help you if in your next incarnation you still don't know who you are.
Eckhart Tolle -The Power of Now — Julie Kelly

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both. — Philip Pullman

I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it. — Blake Bailey

Open to others as you would like them to open to you. — Gary Zukav

And at last he began prancing up and down and rubbing his hands, and humming and murmuring, and putting his fist to his mouth blew a march on it as on a trumpet, and even uttered aloud a few encouraging words and nicknames addressed to himself, such as "bulldog" and "little cockerel. — Nikolai Gogol

The definition of Brevity: That which people believe would be a virtue - in me! — Greg Curtis

We want to bring the presence of God to the people, but forget in the process that only God Himself is able to do that. — Sunday Adelaja

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world. — Pope Francis

We have played so well that the guys have really made my job fairly easy. — Ricky Ponting