Pat McBride famous quotes

When there is a storm in your life, it is not the time to build. No creature on earth tries to build during a storm. Conserve your energy until the storm passes.
-- Pat McBride

#Worry #Trying #Storm

You would not go into an apple orchard and eat the weeds so why would you go into your day and feast on worries?.
-- Pat McBride

#Weed #Apples #Worry

When we are angry, we will use a lie as fast as a truth if we can hurt with it. Anger feels strong but it is actually a disguised weakness. To someone with their eyes closed, all the pictures that you show them will seem the same. It is better to whisper words of love instead of trying to find a better picture. The end of a relationship is not a failure any more than the end of a book is a failure.
-- Pat McBride

#Life #Strong #Hurt

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection. Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better. All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.
-- Pat McBride

#Love #Keys #Two

How little the color of a life jacket matters when we fall overboard. If something is important, it will be important under all circumstances. Otherwise, it's not important.
-- Pat McBride

#Fall #Color #Perspective

It matters not whether you win the race or not but that you cross the finish line with a smile and a bit of a laugh. Stress does not come from having too much on your plate. Stress comes from labeling too many of those things as very important. Discussing religion, no matter how in depth the discussion, should never be confused with actually practicing that religion.
-- Pat McBride

#Stress #Confused #Winning

Problems are gifts from heaven to help every one of us to grow but for those who are to grow the most, heaven bestows rejection.
-- Pat McBride

#Rejection #Heaven #Helping

Today is not bad just because yesterday seemed better.
-- Pat McBride

#Yesterday #Today #Problem

All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.
-- Pat McBride

#Keys #Two #Laughing

Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power.

[Once plans for each eventuality are resolved, further] Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.

Film doesn't have to worry. Movies are awesome. There's no war going on, theaters aren't going to lose.

My movies just kind of sneak up on you. I don't have to worry too much about what everybody is going to say. Anyway, I really don't pay attention to what the world says about my movies. I just care about what my buddies think.

Maybe a first love exists to reaffirm the best parts of yourself, the choices you made when you didn't worry about the consequences. Maybe a first love exists to remind you to be brave in the moment, to stand up for your feelings, instead of shrinking back in the face of potential loneliness.

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.

Kindness is the only service that will stand the storm of life and not wash out.

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

We are all instruments pulling the bows across our own lungs. Windmills, still startling in every storm. Have you ever seen a newborn blinking at the light? I wanna do that every day. I wanna know what the kite called itself when it got away, when it escaped into the night...

Passions are like storms which, full of present mischief, serve to purify the atmosphere.