" I'm blessed if I do, and blessed if I don't." - Debbie Campbell

“Take a chance..., change a 'NO' to a 'YES' today.” ― M. Howson

“As one's fortunes are reduced, one spirit must expand to fill the void.”
― Winston Churchill

Change...
 

I teach a high-school confirmation class, and they're going to write about this quote
 

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

“Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.”
― Barack Obama

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“Forget yesterday - it has already forgotten you. Don't sweat tomorrow - you haven't even met. Instead, open your eyes and your heart to a truly precious gift - today.”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

“ Love isn't just a word. And it angers me how much people toss it around, until it has little or no meaning. If people are going to say, "I love you", they'd better have the backbone to prove it. And also if you are going to tell someone you love them, make sure they have earned it. ”
― C. JoyBell C.


“Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.”
― C. JoyBell C.


“People do not meet by chance––they navigate their lives to certain people for certain reasons.”
― Ruti Yudovich

“I spent a long time trying to find my center until I looked closely at it one night & found it had wheels and moved easily in the slightest breeze. So now I spend less time sitting and more time sailing. ”
― Brian Andreas

“Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.

I mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than ‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain…

I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’

‘Well,’ I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’

What I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting, than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book: finally, something to celebrate!

I’ve got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed, self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before ‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
― J.K. Rowling

Love is only one of many passions.
Samuel Johnson

" New love gives rise to the possibility of anything. " - Stephan Rhodes


" You know I am worth the effort, so what is your problem?" - Mark Graves


“Happiness is a decision . Love is a decision. If you decide to be happy then you're happy. If you decide to love then you love.”
― Ann Marie Aguilar