I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
~ Joyce Rachelle
They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.
When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.
Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?My favorite character died.
The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.
If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.
Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.
Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.
There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.
I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it’s because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems.
Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.
If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?
We are semipermeable membranes. We can pick and choose which troubles are worthy of our attention. What sinks us can only do so with our permission, a boat stays afloat until the water gets in.
There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.
Pay attention to what you wish you were doing when you're doing something else.
What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
I had no money to start,For Jack decreed in his pride:The Caveman's wife didn't work - It was his job to provide.A brief reminder right here:Let men believe they are shrewd,But even women of oldEmbroidered mittens for food.
How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?
There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.
Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.
She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.
One mistake is all they see.
Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.
Dear World,I exist.Deal with it.
Dear Teenage Self,That guy you're crazy about,Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day,That feeling will have gone away.
There is more to hear in what is not said.
The praise and glorification of God doesn't exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding, it is in spite of – and even because of – deep and troubled circumstance.
Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
Maybe forgiveness means you stop keeping tabs on those people. Wounds can't heal if you keep touching them.
Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?
If I don't talk about it, it's either very displeasing or very precious to me.
