"Heroes become heroes, flaws and all." 5/22/2012 Quotations

"Heroes become heroes, flaws and all." -Peter McWilliams

"The moment will come when I shall know that it was reasonable to fight against reason."-Saint-Exupery

“Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend." -Albert Camus

“You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.” -Ray Bradbury

“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone." -Jonathon Safron Foer

Favorite James Hillman Quotations

"As time goes on, the mounting tragedy over what happens in life means in part what God, fate, and circumstances have brought about, but more it means what happens in our relationships with other people. Here we believe ourselves responsible. Things could have been different had we but known better, been more conscious, understood more psychology."-Psychology and Religion

My favorite John Maxwell Quotations

"Many people go far in life because someone else thought they could."

"If we are growing we are always going to be outside our comfort zone."

“Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.”

“To Stay Focused in Life:
You can't know everyone
You can't do everything
You can't go everywhere
We have to pick and choose between good and a little bit better.” 

“Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. ”

“You cannot overestimate the unimportance of practically everything.” 

"Do not take the agenda that someone else has mapped out for your life."

Good Quotations 1

"Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great." - Kenny Rogers

"If Fate should say, "Thy course is run,"
 It would not make me sad;
 All that I wished to do is done,
 All that I would have, had."

"There is magic in new beginnings."

"First say to yourself what you would be, then do what you have to do." -Epictetus

"I'm not telling you it is going to be easy- I'm telling you it's going to be worth it." -Art Williams

"Kindness is just about the best you can do."

"You can't stay mad at someone who makes you laugh." -Jay Leno

Random Quotes From Old Journals

"She knew that somehow it didn't matter, that beauty lay deeper, that ugliness could be beauty in its own way, she wanted to understand this, the preciousness of scars, the magic smiles in the midst of tears."

"Baby, please don't cry. Understand it please.
Of course I love you darling.
I'm just not what you need."

"You may not take the horror away. Nor may you take away the tears, and the suffering, and the confusion or the loneliness and the anguish and the fear. This is not in your power; it never was. You cannot know or change their story, but you can sweep them up in yours and make it beautiful if you are able, though your own life, your own way too is a mystery as you act a part you do not understand."

"So love to me is not such a matter of gaining or losing."

"Life is not about liking yourself"

"There is a time to think things over and a time to say it's over, the decision has been made and there is no turning back."

"...and the hardest thing some people have to face every day is themselves."

"...and you lose hope little by little and then suddenly right in front of you there he is."

"And the strange thing is that sometimes we find it easier to forgive people's wrongs, then their rights."

"And finally he forgave himself, for not always knowing what it is that people need. And for not always being the right person to give it to them."

"If you are to fall in love with me, I want it to be because of who I am, the light I share with all, not because of what I've done or said to you specifically, but for who I still would be even if you were not here."

"It's okay to forgive people for things they probably didn't even do wrong, forgiving them for choosing the better road instead of the road you wanted them to. In a way, you are also forgiving yourself."

"If I could do it over again I wouldn't try to make myself a different person. I wouldn't think about myself at all."

"...but there is such loneliness in genius, in goodness, in holiness, in beauty, in power, in sainthood."

 "It's like when you break up, and you could go on with your life, but what you want is the guy, not a life without him, no matter how good it is, and so you stay in and pout."

 "Time creates dearness."

"Add music to that, and life is beautiful."

"It was one of those memories that is so faded that scarcely more than a solitary glimpse still remains; the kind of memory that you know is slipping away and so you desperately try to remember. You realize that this might be the last time to save it for time threatens that this is the last time it will come back to you."

"Ah, but you cannot judge him. A man's actions alone are not enough to tell how often he has prayed."