I’m not mad at all. I’m just differently sane.

Does it depress you to know just how alone you really are?

When I saw what a black, awful joke the world was, I went crazy as a coot!

Costume’s a bit theatrical, but hey, who am I to talk?

I used to think my life was a tragedy, but now I realize it’s a comedy.

It seems to me that the secret of true happiness in life is to know what you are and then be content to be that, in style, head up and proud, and not yearn to be something else.

I can’t tell. The gate opens, some come out, some go in.

Sometimes, you just have to accept your situation. Realize that God has everything under control. Trust His plan for the future.

Have faith. Sometimes you just have to let go, and let God be in control of things.

Life becomes easier when you accept that God made all things and that He’s in control.

You can’t calm the storm, so stop trying. You can calm yourself. The storm will pass.

Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

So what if they have never apologized. Forgive them and keep moving forward.

I’m letting go. You let go a long time ago, and I realize that it is time for me to do the same.

It is in that moment when you really lay down your cards and see the relationship for what it was, that you’ll find the freedom to kick it in the ass and let it go.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions was it He, that bore,
And Yesterday, or Centuries before?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
A Wooden way
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose if we would but realize it than to accept life unquestioningly. Everything we shut our eyes to, everything we run away from, everything we deny, denigrate or despise, serves to defeat us in the end. What seems nasty, painful, and evil can become a source of beauty, joy, and strength if faced with an open mind. Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.

and when love came to us twice
and lied to us twice
we decided to never love again
that was fair
fair to us
and fair to love itself.

we ask

I knew that I was dying.
Something in me said,
Go ahead, die, sleep, become as them, accept.
Then something else in me said, no,
save the tiniest bit.
It needn’t be much, just a spark.
A spark can set a whole forest on fire.
Just a spark.
Save it.

Loss, hardships…dwelling on them is pointless.

A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough

I know I’ll be okay and that eventually everything will work out. I know that what’s meant for me will happen, I know. But I

Clearly understand, there isn’t any situation that isn’t made worse by worry. Worry never solves anything. Worry never prevents anything. Worry never heals anything. Worry

Why joys so scantily disburse,
Why Paradise defer,
Why floods are served to us in bowls, –
I speculate no more.

Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves and immortality.

I’m sure… I have qualities you don’t, and you have qualities I don’t. We were born that way. I think that the weakness… And the kindness… That you have… Are very… PRECIOUS.

I don’t know what our parents will say. But what’s most important really is YOUR FEELINGS. It’s all right. You are not a TOOL. If someone like me… Can have someone who is there for me… Then surely a good kid like you… Isn’t as alone… As you think you are.

Don’t judge… Don’t judge me based on some story… And laugh.

I still don’t know very much about their situations or family affairs… However, I’ll find out more about them in time. And I wanna be

Living in a state of gratitude is the gateway to grace.

You shouldn’t chase after the past
or place expectations on the future.
What is past
is left behind.
The future
is as yet unreached.

He doesn’t regret what life has been.

Accept the process. Your blessing is already ready. It’s already done. God is getting you ready for the blessing, preparing you for your destiny.

Being alive is an infinite blessing. Appreciate life for what it is. Love what it is.

I think it’s important for people to be themselves and embrace who they are.

It means that there’s only one love for everyone who exists. And when you meet that love, you know them. You know you were meant

Some griefs, like rivers, are uncross
able. They are not to be waded across
but walked beside. Our loss
colossal & blossomed
is never lost on us….

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

Let’s face the fact that the age you are at this very moment is the best and only age available to you, so treasure each moment as you experience it.

Appreciate life for what it is and the way it is now. Accept all that is. Everything is as it should be.

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

Sometimes the first step toward forgiveness is realizing the other person was born an idiot.

We are all born sexual creatures, thank God, but it’s a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift.

Sex is part of nature. I go along with nature.

We also need to recognize that God may have other plans in store for us, and we must be willing to accept that.

I often tell people that when we get a big NO, it’s because God has for us a bigger YES. We must do all we

We are not supposed to always understand why certain things happen. We don’t have to always know the reasons why GOD allows some things to

Don’t be disheartened when you didn’t get to be with the one you love. Sometimes you just have to accept the reality that the one

One phrase that got me through many difficult times in my life was: God’s delays are not God’s denials.

The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

There is a difference between giving up and knowing when you have had enough.

Sometimes you just have to accept the fact that things will never go back to how they used to be, and that this ending is really a new beginning.

Sometimes, things will not always go as planned. You will have to let go of the things that you have planned for yourself to accept

Life moves on and so should we.

If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change.

I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go,

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we

I give him so many chances to show me I’m a priority. I think it’s time to realize I’m not.

The difference between giving up and knowing when it’s time to stop trying is when you begin to lose yourself, maybe it’s time to let

You have to accept that giving up and starting a better path is a part of life. Don’t be afraid of that.

Life is so baffling that sometimes there is no way to win, no matter how much we try. In these kinds of situations, all we

One of the most peaceful mindsets ever begins the moment you finally find the courage to let go of what you can’t change. It is

Sometimes you do need closure in your life to get a clear sense at the end and to know about why it started and why

We love the things we love for what they are.

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

A real girl isn’t perfect and a perfect girl isn’t real.

when you’re young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you’re old
it’s just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.

You’ve got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her, and if you don’t want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it’s always a process of letting go, one way or the other.

Time will not slow down when something unpleasant lies ahead.

I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I’ll be ready.”

she slammed the door and
was gone.

I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn’t feel
alone.

I sat down and found half a dead cigar in the ashtray. I lit it up, took a drag, gagged. Tried it again. Not too bad.

I’m not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn’t?

I knew exactly what I
was doing: I was
doing nothing.
because I knew there
was nothing
to do.

I could never accept
life as it was,
I could never gobble
down all its
poisons
but there were parts,
tenuous magic parts
open for the
asking.

“Ben,” my mother said, “you shouldn’t smoke, it will kill you.”
“I’ve had a good life.”

You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places like that gave you hope when there wasn’t much hope.

Gathered around me were the weak instead of the strong, the ugly instead of the beautiful, the losers instead of the winners. It looked like it was my destiny to travel in their company through life. That didn’t bother me so much as the fact that I seemed irresistible to these dull idiot fellows.

sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going to
die and you are going to die and the cats are going to die
but it’s still good to stretch out and know you have arms
and
feet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to close
once
more, it really helps to know these things, to know your
advantages
and your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, just
cats and
rain, rain and cats, very nice, good
night.

Would Celine do that? Who would want to live to be 102? Nobody but a fool. Why would Celine wish to linger? The whole thing was crazy. Lady Death was crazy. I was crazy. The pilots of airliners were crazy. Never look at the pilot. Just get on board and order drinks.

there’s nothing to
discuss
there’s nothing to
remember
there’s nothing to
forget

it’s sad
and
it’s not
sad

seems the
most sensible
thing
a person can
do
is
sit
with drink in
hand
as the walls
wave
their goodbye
smiles

one comes through
it
all
with a certain
amount of
efficiency and
bravery
then
leaves

some accept
the possibility of
God
to help them
get
through

others
take it
straight on

and to these

I drink
tonight.

Dom: How ’bout you tell us where that device is?
Ramsey: I mailed it to a friend. In Abu Dhabi.
Brian: That was pretty easy. That other team wanted to torture you for that information.
Ramsey: I didn’t trust them. I trust you.
Letty: Now why would you trust us? You barely know us.
Ramsey: I know enough.
Ramsey: [looks at Brian] Ex-cop. Military, something like that. The way you took out those guys shows training.
Ramsey: [looks at Tej] Tech guy, offended by the hacker remark, naturally.
Ramsey: [looks at Dom and Letty] Alpha. Ms. Alpha.
Ramsey: [looks at Roman] Joker.
Roman Pearce: Wrong. Double alpha. Man-candy. You know what I’m saying?
Tej: Man, sit your candy ass down.
Roman Pearce: The disrespect is real around here.

[Mrs. Pentstemmon] had said Sophie was a witch. Oddly enough, Sophie accepted this without any trouble at all. That explained the popularity of certain hats,

Maybe I was lonely. Maybe I’ve just… always… been lonely.

Hagrid, I think you must have made a mistake. I don’t think I can be a wizard.

Did he say you look like a pig that’s been taught to walk on its hind legs? ‘Cause that’s not cheek, Dud, that’s true.

Why worry? If you’ve done the very best you can, worrying won’t make it any better. I worry about many things, but not about water over the dam.

I don’t go crazy. I am crazy. I go normal from time to time.

Why do they call it rush hour when nothing moves?

Just because I don’t care doesn’t mean I don’t understand.

People say that laughter is the best medicine… your face must be curing the world.

Pick me, choose me, love me.

You really mean [that you deserve to be punished]. Is that all people will ever be to you? A way to punish yourself for thoughts

Kyo Sohma: NOW YOU STAY HERE AND SIT STILL!
Momiji Sohma: Waahh! Somebody, Kyo hit me!
Tohru Honda: Is everything okay?
Momiji Sohma: You’re Tohru! Right? Tohru Honda?

Kagura Sohma: I’ll take his good traits with his bad! Even if he turns into his true form, I’ll stand by hi–
Kyo Sohma: That’s…enough! Keep

Shigure Sohma: At any rate, I’m weak, unsympathetic, and utterly worthless. Essentially I’m the very worst kind of man. Hatori Sohma: You know, what gets

Akito, my mom, even Kyo – when things go wrong, I blame everyone except myself. I have flaws, weakness. I need to accept that they

Kakeru Manabe: Guess so.
Yuki Sohma: And maybe, try to re-button your shirt.
Kakeru Manabe: Nah, it doesn’t have to be buttoned perfectly. It’s good enough the

I love you. I don’t want to take anything else from you. Or trample the hope you offer me. I’d dream that we would be

Yuki Sohma: The truth is, in the back of my mind, I probably knew what would happen. How life would change if I opened the

The thing is, if she didn’t love all of me, that would’ve been fine. Or even if… if she were scared, I’d get that. Because

Shigure Sohma: Still, you can’t be certain it will succeed. Even if she does accept him, Kyo will most likely reject that acceptance. And this

I bet that no matter how oppressed you are by others, how hopeless you are, or how loved you are by your family, you want

It suits him.

Yuki Sohma: Could it be any weirder than me? It’s freakish – a boy in a dress.
Schoolboy 1: Don’t even say that! You’re the greatest.
Schoolboy

I gotta say I didn’t know what to make of all this when she told us, but it looks like Tohru’s fitting right in here.

I thought that, if I could shorten the distance between us, and if you would like me back, then the me that ran away –

There’s nothing to feel sorry for on my behalf. I’ve been a very selfish girl. For the first time, I was able to see that.

But Haru… DID… Want me. There WAS someone… Who wanted me… Even though I have been told… That I was unwanted. I’m happy… What… A

The way you talk, Rin… It’s like it’s WRONG to be loved by your parents. Like peace is superficial… And a BAD thing.

I know it’s my fault for being a son that she has to apologize for. I… Really AM hopeless… I’m possessed by a vengeful spirit,

It’s kind of… ANNOYING. Apparently they don’t like my hair OR my attitude. So I think in that case… I have no choice but to

We can’t go back to the way things were. The feelings of guilt and shame won’t dissapear. They’d spread like a cancer. Eating away at

It’s over between Kana and me. We’re not going to get back together. Even if we were together, I would only miss her…

As long as I’m around, you can act as dumb as you want… Okay…?

He needs to know his place. So do I, for the that matter. This is just who we are. It’s time to accept that.

Akito, am I really so strange that I have to hide who I am?

Yuki Sohma: Aren’t you going after him?
Kagura Sohma: No, I’m not. I’ve made up my mind. Kyo already knows I accept him, no matter what

You’re in love. Don’t deny it, you’ve been sighing all day.

Markl : Are we a family?
Sophie : Yes, we’re family.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted

Neela: You know, I almost didn’t recognize you without your slippers on.
Shawn Boswell: Don’t you mean uwabaki?

Accept the tough situations which you are facing now. Acceptance will only make you calm, think, act and solve.

Don’t deny the existence of a mountain in your life; deny its authority to stay, and refuse to allow it to stop the plan of God in your life.

It’s ridiculous. Something so simple…normal people wouldn’t even worry about something like this. They never have to announce what they plan to do. There’s no need to be afraid. But…even though I’m a far cry from ‘normal,’ you’ve never made fun of me for it. You never gave up on me. You did your very best to support me. To care for me. To keep reachin’ out. You really do mean everything to me. That’s why…

In our own lives, it’s okay to make mistakes and be confused, anxious, and stressed. It’s normal and God still loves us.

Dom: Are you pushing imports on him?
Brian: [waving Jack’s hand at Toretto] Daddy’s not pushing anything, Uncle Dom.
Dom: He may be an O’Conner… but he’s also a Toretto.

Roman Pearce: This is crazy. We are not in Brazil. So we got cars flyin’ in the air, on some 007 type shit? This is not what we do!
Tej: Man you really gotta check that emotion. Your voice just went from Shaggy to Scooby Doo. This is not what we doooo roo roo!

you

you’re a beast, she said
your big white belly
and those hairy feet.
you never cut your nails
and you have fat hands
paws like a cat
your bright red nose
and the biggest balls
I’ve ever seen.
you shoot sperm like a
whale shoots water out of the
hole in its back.

beast beast beast,
she kissed me,
what do you want for
breakfast?

Never settle for less than you desire or deserve because when you except crumbs people will assume that you are happy with scraps.

I want you. All of you. Your flaws. Your imperfections. Your mistakes. All of you.

When we do not measure up to the standards we have set for ourselves we become discouraged. But we have to realize that God is not discouraged with us.

God doesn’t make mistakes; neither of us is a mistake. God knew exactly what He was doing when He created both of us.

It’s a waste of time to think about what I should have done and what I didn’t. I really believe in that. That’s how I react to the if-onlys of life. To moan and groan about something I shouldn’t have done, could have done, might have done…who knows? It is what it is. You got what you got. I live my life one day at a time.

Mia: Let this go. Before it’s too late.
Dom: It’s already too late.

God has granted you yet another day to make your dreams come true. Accept it with all your heart. Let’s give your life a new start. Good morning!

A coward can be identified by his actions. The main characteristic he has is that he accepts defeat without even trying. Always try not have this characteristic and always keep your head up.

Be yourself and the people that don’t mind are the people that matter.

When people go through something rough in life, they say, ‘I’m taking it one day at a time.’ Yes, so is everybody. Because that’s how time works.

Live one day at a time. Keep your attention in present time. Have no expectations. Make no judgments. And give up the need to know why things happen as they do. Give it up!

Then I take a dump. Feel better. Take off my clothes and step into the pool. Ice water. But great. I walk along toward the deep end of the pool, the water rising inch by inch, chilling me. Then I plunge below the water. It’s restful. The world doesn’t know where I am. I come up, swim to the far edge, find the ledge, sit there. It must be about the 9th or 10th race. The horses are still running. I plunge again into the water, being aware of my stupid whiteness, of my age hanging onto me like a leech. Still, it’s OK. I should have been dead 40 years ago. I rise to the top, swim to the far edge, get out.

Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.

Although looked down upon, the idiots seemed to have the more peaceful lives: nothing was expected of them.

Bad writing’s like bad women: there’s just not much you can do about it.

Well, as the boys said, you had to work somewhere. So they accepted what there was. This was the wisdom of the slave.

I finally got dressed. I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can’t.

my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that’s the best
for me.

I know a woman
who keeps buying puzzles
chinese
puzzles
blocks
wires
pieces that finally fit
into some order.
she works it out
mathmatically
she solves all her
puzzles
lives down by the sea
puts sugar out for the ants
and believes
ultimately
in a better world.
her hair is white
she seldom combs it
her teeth are snaggled
and she wears loose shapeless
coveralls over a body most
women would wish they had.
for many years she irritated me
with what I considered her
eccentricities-
like soaking eggshells in water
(to feed the plants so that
they’d get calcium).
but finally when I think of her
life
and compare it to other lives
more dazzling, original
and beautiful
I realize that she has hurt fewer
people than anybody I know
(and by hurt I simply mean hurt).
she has had some terrible times,
times when maybe I should have
helped her more
for she is the mother of my only
child
and we were once great lovers,
but she has come through
like I said
she has hurt fewer people than
anybody I know,
and if you look at it like that,
well,
she has created a better world.
she has won.
Frances, this poem is for
you.

I could scream down 90 mountains
to less than dust
if only one living human had eyes in the head
and heart in the body,
but there is no chance,
my god,
no chance.
rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog,
play the piano drunk
listen to the drunk piano,
realize the myth of mercy
stand still
as even a child’s voice snarls
and we have not been fooled,
it was only that we wanted to believe.

Mine… I was born to love you. I can finally say that.

Unplanned occurrences are reminders to check your tendency to think that you’re the one in control. In reality, it’s someone else… It is a vivid reminder that in ministry, no matter how hard you work, ultimately it’s God’s work, not yours. All this puts our work in perspective.

And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He’s in control.

I’m not a cat. And I’m not gonna turn into one even if you hug me . . . I was born like this.

You know me so well, inside out. Your deep acceptance of me is what I love most about you.

I love you. I love you just the way you are. I love you so much!

Neither people nor feelings can be bound, frozen in time.

I know I’ll have to do something when the time comes…but I think I already know what I’ll have to let go of.

This girl is so foolish…and so dear to me.

Time marches on. It’s already begun that hike. People…and feelings move on, too.

I love you because you are the only person who knows what I really think about myself.

I love you just the way you are.

I love you not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. I love you not only for what you have made of yourself, but for what you are making of me. I love you for the part of me that you bring out.

After a while, you just can’t cry anymore. You just have to believe that what happens is what’s supposed to happen, and you can’t change that, even if you tried. So, just dry the tears, and hope that tomorrow will be a better day.

I love you because you’re you.

Sometimes I wish things were different. But then I realize, this is how God wants it. He has it under control. Who am I to tell God what to do?

I have learned to accept it, even ask for it, this ‘more than I can handle.’ Because in these times, God shows Himself victorious. He reminds me that all of this life requires more of Him and less of me. God does give us more than we can handle. Not maliciously, but intentionally, in love, that His glory may be displayed, that we may have no doubt of who is in control, that people may see His grace and faithfulness shining through our lives.

You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love.

I’m a big believer in everything meant to be. If it didn’t work out then, it’s fine.

Parting is all we know of heaven, and all we need of hell.

My time has come. You must continue your journey… without me. You must… believe.

Quit, don’t quit. Noodles, don’t noodles… You are too concerned with what was and what will be. There’s a saying: Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

Take life on life’s terms – one day at a time. And have fun while you’re doing it.

I want to live with the burden of memories…

Don’t hate me. Tell me…everything’s okay. I was always so ashamed. I was ashamed of my weakness. But…I want you to say it. Just once…even if it’s a lie. I know it will give me the courage…to try and become strong.

For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be accepted for who they are, even if they receive only a fraction of love. I don’t think one cancels out the other. I don’t believe that there is any right or wrong… we simply coexist.

If maybe… I have managed to change just a bit… It’s because I found people who accept me. They see what I’m doing, and when it’s good, they tell me so. They don’t just tell me this is bad, or that’s no good. Not all of it is negative. That makes me happy. And because I’m happy… I begin to feel like I can keep trying.

People say “never give up” but sometimes giving up is the best option because you realize you’re wasting your time.

It’s true. I……I wanted to be born in the year of the cat……!

It gets better. It gets so much easier to be in your skin no matter what size that skin is. If you do something that you’re good at and that makes you happy, that’s the best outlet that I could ever suggest to anybody…. if you are able to just enjoy who you are, and if you can learn to love who you are, then you’ll just be a much happier person.

If it has to happen; it will happen. Don’t worry too much about anything.

Never force anything, just let it be. If it is meant to be, it will happen.

God told me I was going to make an impact on the world.

For whatever reason, God has a plan for me.

I know that God has a plan for my life.

I’ve lived in a world of death. I’ve watched people I’ve loved die. Some fast with a bullet, some not enough left to bury. All these years I’ve kept my secrets, but the time has come to face my past. And if they come looking for me, they will welcome death. I want revenge. I want them to know that death is coming. And there’s nothing they can do to stop it. I want them to feel our grief, and know that’s the last thing they will ever feel. And I know you want it too.

You have to live with it. Even if they’re hopeless, or if you’re appalled by them, or angry with them…children can’t switch their parents. Just like parents can’t switch their children. There’s no ‘reset’ button…so…you have to deal with what you’ve got.

Because you’re not accepted doesn’t necessarily mean you’re a genius. Maybe you just write badly.

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else’s children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

God is in control and knowing that at the end of the day what happens – whether I’m comfortable with it or not or afraid of it or not – that God is in control.

When you accept the fact that sometimes seasons are dry and times are hard and that God is in control of both, you will discover a sense of divine refuge, because the hope then is in God and not in yourself.

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything.

The future is not in our hands. We have no power over it. We can act only today. We have a sentence in our Constitution that says: ‘We will allow the good God to make plans for the future – for yesterday has gone, tomorrow has not yet come and we have only today to make Him known, loved and served.’ So we do not worry about the future.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

Contentment is accepting God’s sovereign control over all of life’s circumstances.

There are times when true love will be a source of pain, and one that you must accept. Because to truly love someone, is to put their feelings before your own, no matter what. Keep putting yourself first, and you will only succeed in pushing them away.

Take me as I am or not at all!

You don’t have to know HOW it’s going to happen, you just have to KNOW it’s going to happen!

I believe that God has a plan, and it’s your job to show up with an open heart.

All was in God’s plan, and he had to accept it even though he didn’t understand.

It’s incredibly arrogant to pick and choose which incomprehensible truths we embrace. No one wants to ditch God’s plan of redemption [the cross], even though it doesn’t make sense to us. Neither should we erase God’s revealed plan of punishment because it doesn’t sit well with us. As soon as we do this, we are putting God’s actions in submission to our own reasoning, which is a ridiculous thing for clay to do.

Well, this should certainly teach us, should it not, never to repine, never to despair, never to allow the upper lip to unstiffen, but always to remember that, no matter how dark the skies may be, the sun is shining somewhere and will eventually come smiling through.

If I tell the truth about me, what can the world say? I’d love to be accepted, but I’m not seeking acceptance. If you are a fan, it’s because you’re a fan of who I am psychological, emotionally, and individually. The world can relate to a human being more than it can relate to a superstar.

Don’t ever wish you were someone else, you were meant to be the way you are exactly.

Accept it… Black women are beautiful, pretty, gorgeous, appealing, elegant, attractive, lovely, stunning, and exquisite.

Closure isn’t closure until someone’s ready to close the door.

I put my flaws on front street. So the world accepted my flaws, so I don’t have any flaws.

And if when everything ends, nothing is left in my hands…that’s alright.

They say that we should love ourselves first, before other people learn to love us, but it’s not as easy as it seems. Sometimes, we need someone to accept us and love us first, then we would learn to see ourselves through that person’s eyes and learn to love our-self.

Americans do not presume to equate God’s purposes with any purpose of our own…. [Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God’s plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

We must acquire the faith to accept the fact that all knowledge is from God and known to God. Knowledge is released to man on earth according to God’s plan for him. Free or liberal thinking does not change truth, the revealed knowledge which comes from God.

Trautman: Hard to believe, John.
Rambo: What’s that, sir?
Trautman: Well, I hate to admit it, but the truth is, I think we’re getting soft.
Rambo: Maybe just a little, sir. Just a little.

I finally got the courage to ask you on a date. So just say yes, let the future fall into place.

Good Morning. My only prayer to God is that He accepts all your prayers.

The day you settle for less is the day you will get less.

Don’t ever settle for less than you deserve, because once you start to settle you always will.

Never settle for less than you deserve. Demand the best, accept nothing less.

Never settle for less; the first moment you do, you will always keep on doing it over and over.

I have learned to accept that, in the present moment at least, things are exactly as they are meant to be, and although I cannot control the future any more than I could control the wind and the weather, I can manage it and influence it in a positive way.

This is the truth about things: If you take something that isn’t yours, it will never belong to you. You can try to hold on to it, but somehow, it will slip through your fingers. If something wasn’t meant to be yours, it won’t be. No matter what you do to keep it, you will lose it.

It’s difficult to find a person who can accept the truth consistently and more when it is related to him only and that’s what keeps the difference between the real talk and the negative talk very marginal.

Gratitude is the key to life’s full potential. That which we have becomes sufficient and much more. Confusion and disarray are transformed into clarity and acceptance. It clarifies our history, gives us comfort in the present, and gives us hope for the future.

There’s never any closure in an awe-inspired life, only constant acceptance of the mysteries of life.

It’s hard to find a person to talk to, someone who will always just listen without judging you, someone who will just take you as you are.

Every rule in the book can be broken, except one – be who you are, and become all you were meant to be.

Some things are meant to be and if it was, you will know it.

What-ifs are for fools. We are here because are meant to be.

Mind your own business. What your neighbor does (within the law) is none of your concern. Accept that behavior is not evil simply because it is different.

Closure, for me, would mean accepting my circumstances rather than trying to alter them to serve me best.

Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

Hear me when I say I believe nothings gonna change destiny. Whatevers meant to be will work out perfectly.

I’m not a ‘what if’. I want to just do it, try it, give it my all, and if it’s not meant to be, I can accept that. But I had to do it.

It’s destiny! Perhaps it is the energy that pulls on the threads and, well, I’m just leaving it as it is meant to be.

If we were meant to be together, we would be together. I just wanted you to be happy. That’s all. You did everything. You accepted me for who I am, and not for what you wanted me to be.

Sometimes I think some things just happen and are meant to be.

I’m a great believer in the idea that if it’s meant to be, it will be.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don’t have any regrets.

I’m open to whatever is meant to be, it will be.

I look at things as ‘Everything is meant to be.’

If it’s meant to be, it will be. It’s destiny… or not. It doesn’t have to be perfect.

Life is easy if you know which lane you should be in. Know your lane and stay true there. We all belong somewhere, don’t try to trim yourself to fit where you don’t belong.