Quotes

Spiritual


"A woman's heart should be so hidden in Christ, a man will have to seek him first to find her."

"He can't be my knight in shining armor until he puts on the full ARMOR of GOD."

“God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity in the cloud, the oil in the earth. He left the rivers unbridged and the forests unfelled and the cities unbuilt. God gives to man the challenge of raw materials, not the ease of finished things. He leaves the pictures unpainted and the music unsung and the problems unsolved, that man might know the joys and glories of creation.”

"Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you're praying." ~ Mason Cooley

"Only God can turn a mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into a triumph, a victim into a victory."


Music

"To stop the flow of music would be like the stopping of time itself, incredible and inconceivable." ~Aaron Copland

‎"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything."  ~Plato


"Play without vibrato. You're gonna get old anyway and start shaking. No vibrato!"


Keeping On


"Keep the day's resolutions and the year will take care of itself."

"You know all those things you've always wanted to do? You should go do them."


"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly."

"Every second is a chance to turn your life around."

"Let your smile change the world, but don't let the world change your smile."

"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails." 

"At first glance it may appear too hard. Look again. Always look again."

"Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is." ~ Mark Twain


Being Someone

"It isn't about choosing the right person. It's about being the right person."‎

"Be the type of person you want to meet."

"I always wondered why somebody didn't do something about that. Then I realized, I am somebody."

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle." ~Christian D. Larson


Wisdom

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep"

"An emotion, one might say, is an undischarged action, a deed yet retained within the organsim. Thus anger is unfought combat; fear unfled flight. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that an emotion is a state of preparedness for action, which, however, in many ways is almost action itself."

"Choose your love. Love your choice."

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."‎

"I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next."-Gilda Radne

"Today is tomorrow's yesterday."

There's always a little truth behind every "just kidding", a little knowledge behind every "I don't know", a little emotion behind every "I don't care", and a little pain behind every "It's okay.'"


Of People

"You text him, he doesn't text back. He was obviously so excited that you texted him that he fainted."

"A person who is nice to you but is not nice to the waiter is not a nice person."

"There are three sides to every story: yours, mine, and the truth."