Yuantongsudi Quotes & Sayings

Is full of people and situations that don't please us, so if we are waiting for perfect circumstances to make us happy, we will be waiting forever. That's why we must learn to base our happiness and joy not on outward circumstances, but on the Lord's presence inside us. Thankfully, we can learn not to fret or have any anxiety about anything, but in — Joyce Meyer

But now, seeing these letters his father wrote to June Bailey Roe, seeing his father's painful devotion to someone who simply wasn't real - a daughter he never had - Wade is unable to suppress his dread. All that love, all those feelings, all that pain, fastened to nothing, a terrible, drifting chaos. His future loss of mind becomes the new premise of his life, and he feels, already, the loss of the things he loves, feels himself trying to find some other way to hold on to them. — Emily Ruskovich

When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy. — Ray Bradbury

Fanaticism is not a state of religion but a state of mind. — Tony Blair

Most Tralfamadorians had no way of knowing Billy's body and face were not beautiful. They supposed that he was a splendid specimen. This had a pleasant effect on Billy, who began to enjoy his body for the first time — Kurt Vonnegut

Before you get upset, let me explain. As a society, we have been taught that forgiveness is a sign of weakness. In truth, it is the total opposite. It takes real inner strength to forgive and let go. Forgiveness doesn't free the other person from the consequences of their actions. Instead, it releases you from the negative cycle of emotions that difficult people use to perpetuate abuse. — Luke Gregory

Sometimes little things happen which seem nothing at all, but they hurt. — Ivan Turgenev

No man kills himself unless there is something wrong with his life. — Al Alvarez

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure. — J.C. Ryle

The first lesson, simple as it is, is that whatever court we're in, whatever we are doing, at the end of our task some human being is going to be affected. Some human life is going to be changed by what we do. And so we had better use every power of our minds and our hearts and our beings to get those rulings right. — David Souter

For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type. — Tennessee Williams

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another. — Anne Rice

So about this Leon god thing? I don't know of any gods named Leon. Is he like the red-headed stepchild god that no one claims? — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Everyone had something to offer and nobody appeared to have much money. Even the successful seemed to have just enough to live like extravagant bums. — Patti Smith

Past a certain point it is not interesting to think about childhood as the central drama and adulthood as its reprise. — Martha Cooley