Top 1200 Quotes & Sayings by Famous Authors - Page 20

The authentic self is the soul made visible.

I may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Once, I was out of the house 93 days in a year. I was missing grandparents' days at schools and kids' birthdays and Valentine's Day, not to mention the fact that when you're on the road, you can't get anything done. I had to learn to say 'No,' cut back on travel.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

Writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

Glorify who you are today, do not condemn who you were yesterday, and dream of who you can be tomorrow.

People are really interested in the concept of eternal youth in this plastic-surgery culture.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

Men of prayer, before anything else, are indispensable to the furtherance of the kingdom of God on earth. No other sort will fit in the scheme or do the deed. Men, great and influential in other things but small in prayer, cannot do the work Almighty God has set out for His Church to do in this, His world.

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

My own view is that this planet is used as a penal colony, lunatic asylum and dumping ground by a superior civilisation, to get rid of the undesirable and unfit. I can't prove it, but you can't disprove it either.

Since our society equates happiness with youth, we often assume that sorrow, quiet desperation, and hopelessness go hand in hand with getting older. They don't. Emotional pain or numbness are symptoms of living the wrong life, not a long life.

An exciting and inspiring future awaits you beyond the noise in your mind, beyond the guilt, doubt, fear, shame, insecurity and heaviness of the past you carry around.

You can't not like 'The Great Gatsby.' It's got the best sentences in, like, ever.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places.

I grew up in Flagstaff, and I still own my old family house up there, so I go up there a couple of times a month just to sit for a day or two and work without any kind of interruption, and I usually take a dinner break, and I'll watch two hours of DVD.

I've found cinnamon to be very effective for lowering the glycemic response to meals. People have heard that before, but I didn't realize how profound it could be until I did the actual testing with continuous glucose monitors. And I tested all different varieties and species of cinnamon from Ceylon to Saigon.

In all God's plans for human redemption, He proposes that men pray. The men are to pray in every place, in the church, in the closet, in the home, on sacred days and on secular days.

When you find your definitions in God, you find the very purpose for which you were created. Put your hand into God's hand, know His absolutes, demonstrate His love, present His truth, and the message of redemption and transformation will take hold.

I think women do have that fatal streak to them that's partly because it's been romanticized, the martyr complex - 'Look what you did to me!'

Just let go. Let go of how you thought your life should be, and embrace the life that is trying to work its way into your consciousness.

We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

The let-go of the last little bit is the biggest because, in that, there is no return.

Language, identity, place, home: these are all of a piece - just different elements of belonging and not-belonging.

Blank paper has always inspired me.

Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

I have an incredible confidence in the resilience of the human spirit and the creative ability of the Holy Spirit. So, if you can get people asking the right questions, it really will start moving in the right direction.

When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

One of my favorite things about supernatural fiction is its vast array of creatures.

I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on.

Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

Failure is just a few seconds away from success.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

Sometimes it's the words we choose not to say that speak most loudly about our character.

All art is theft.

As a writer, I have learned that each time I pick up my pencil I betray someone.

A good leader is someone who knows what he's bad at, and hires someone who's good at it to take care of it for him.

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowledge of our universal vulnerability, and their experience of the power of compassion.

I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed.

When I watch a romantic comedy, I feel like they're selling something that doesn't exist. Two beautiful, but extremely unpleasant, people are terrible to each other for an hour, accidentally kiss, then decide to like each other during an extremely vague montage. That isn't how people fall in love.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

If you wish to fly to new heights, begin by setting your sights on a destination you can reach and then create a flight plan, a map, that will be your guide.

'Dystopian,' by definition, promises a darker story.

Most Christians pray to be blessed. Few pray to be broken.

When I was starting to write, I was fascinated with 'Knuffle Bunny' by Mo Willems. I remember taking it home and typing it out, trying to figure out how it worked. It's just a classic, with dauntingly few words.

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time. It must be a goal that is so appealing, so much in line with your spiritual core, that you can't get it out of your mind. If you do not get chills when you set a goal, your not setting big enough goals.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

An integral part of any best friend's job is to immediately clear your computer history if you die.