"Before Elijah could raise a nation from the dead, he raised just one dead child."
Lou Engle
"You are worthless to others if you don't know your own self and self-worth."
Unknown
"You sold out! We elected you, and you sold out! The next time we have an election, I think everyone should vote for himself. Or we might just as well vote for Charlie Brown! Yes, next year we may even say, 'You're elected, Charlie Brown!"
Charles M. Schulz
"Past has a very great superiority over the future: The future may not exist."
but the past existed!
"Some ghost of myself still lived back in the days when we'd shared a bed and talked of the future. But that love we'd had and those selves we'd been were gone, placed in a box like old photographs and letters you'd never read again."
Dennis Lehane
"I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it."
Jude Morgan
"To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history."
Elizabeth Kostova
"Ruth once wrote, “Dear Journal, Never let a single day pass without saying an encouraging word to each child . . .‘More people fail for lack of encouragement,’ someone wrote, ‘than for any other reason."
Anonymous
"Your future begins with your next thought."
Unknown
"Her fatigue was gone; she felt vital and strong, like a tree coming back to life in the springtime, vibrant with sap, ready to put out buds and then blossoms."
Linda Lael Miller
"If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual."
Anonymous
Inspiration
Happy people plan actions they don't plan results.