Life

We need to increasingly live from the fullness of our whole hearts in order to become who we are meant to be and play the significant role that is ours to play. We want to be awake and alert. We want to be women who live their lives on purpose.

Destiny never gives you chances, but in life you get many chances to change your destiny.

--anger because pain would drown me without the protective shell.

The future is not a scenario written, which we only have to act out; it is a work which we have to create.

Who hears music feels his solitude peopled at once.

We should all live as though someone is writing a book about us.

The soft strings of the lute rippled with memories, and the maid's lilting voice made Mary sigh as she closed her eyes. She fell asleep filled with sadness, but without regret.

I sighed immersed in a sleeping sea. A ripple that turned into waves and then storm, stirring and blending our troubled waters.

I've triedto become someone else for a while,only to discover that he, too, was me.

A great battle is a terrible thing,' the old knight said, 'but in the midst of blood and carnage, there is sometimes also beauty, beauty that could break your heart.

When you are DOWN for satan, you'll be LOADED with sin... And you'll DOWNLOAD failure! You and I can't be part of that mess!

Tears water the eyes when they have been dry for too long.

You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.

You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I'll never recover. What Rissa's death did to the boy I was? You have the ability to do a thousand times worse to the man I've become.

Sorry, always sorry. What in the world can you buy with an apology?

It is not so much about what life hands you, but what you do with what you get.

You have chosen to exist, and more than just exist-- you've been chosen to share in the Universal consciousness.

Doo-wop is the true music to me, man. Doo-wop was what nurtured me and grew me into who I am, and I guess even when I was in school, the teacher probably thought I had ADD or something every day, because I'd be beating on the desks, singing like the Flamingos or the Spaniels or Clyde McPhatter or somebody.

The day of birth is a miraculous day.

The second class status of marriage became one of the principal issues in the Reformation. Martin Luther, the Augustinian friar, had barely posted his ninety-five theses on the door of the church in Wittenberg when he took himself a wife.