"I asked myself if I was genuinely happy and realized I had to change if I wanted to be able to do things with my kids, get rid of the pains in my hips and knees, and stop being judged."

-- Rosie Mercado

#Pain Quotes #Kids Quotes #Judged Quotes

“Love is a state of the heart, but also, an activity. And quite an awesome one.”

Source : Carolyn Crane (2012). “Head Rush: Disillusionists, Book 3: An urban fantasy tale”, p.71, Carolyn Crane
“No band on 21st-century radio has mined pre-grunge hair-metal's sleaze like L.A.'s Buckcherry. So it makes poetic sense that they'd spend their sixth album tallying all seven deadly sins.”
“I think, in my life and in my experience, teens have stress, and everybody's stress is unique, and everybody's frame of reference is different”
“won't you celebrate with me what i have shaped into a kind of life? i had no model. born in babylon both nonwhite and woman what did i see to be except myself? i made it up here on this bridge between starshine and clay, my one hand holding tight my other hand; come celebrate with me that everyday something has tried to kill me and has failed.”

Source : Lucille Clifton (2013). “The Book of Light”, p.25, Copper Canyon Press
“Peace begins with a smile. I will never understand all the good that a simple smile can accomplish.”
“The essence of the this-time-is-different syndrome is...rooted in the firmly held belief that financial crises are things that happen to other people in other countries at other times; crises do not happen to us, here and now. We are doing things better, we are smarter, we have learned from past mistakes. The old rules of valuation no longer apply. Unfortunately, a highly leveraged economy can unwittingly be sitting with its back at the edge of a financial cliff for many years before chance and circumstance provoke a crisis of confidence that pushes it off.”
“I find having your own car is like a passport to the world.”
“What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the bible: defending the dried ink marks on the page becomes more vital than defending their neighbor. As a general rule, I would say that human beings never behave more badly toward one another than when they believe they are protecting God. In the words of Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas, 'People of the Book risk putting the book above people.”

Source : Barbara Brown Taylor (2011). “Leaving Church: A Memoir of Faith”, p.106, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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