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“Mom actually said that?" Cassie's face shown with happiness. "She always hated my math!" "Nah," Martin said. "She was just being that way for you. She thought it was what you needed to hear. If parents told us what they really think about stuff, we could figure them out like regular people.”
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“I might cry tomorrow, but I may be smiling the day after. That's enough. That's the way life is. If I don't lose hope - tomorrow will come.�Tomorrow will come if we don't lose hope... I learned that from Nana.�But rainy days still make my cheeks wet with tears, even now. It was pouring, on that rainy day.”
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“Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.”
Source : William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.21, Moody Publishers
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“Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.”
Source : Kenneth Lee Pike (1982). “Linguistic Concepts: An Introduction to Tagmemics”
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“The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.”
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“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
Source : FaceBook post by Barbara Taylor Bradford from Sep 14, 2014
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“The world is... the natural setting of, and field for, all my thoughts and all my explicit perceptions. Truth does not inhabit only the inner man, or more accurately, there is no inner man, man is in the world, and only in the world does he know himself.”
Source : Maurice Merleau-Ponty (2002). “Phenomenology of Perception”, p.12, Psychology Press
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“We're the team to beat. Everybody knows that.”