Joyce Rachelle Quotes - Page 2

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.
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If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?
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Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.
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There will always be one or two things bothering the person next to you. And if that person happens to be looking heavenward, it’s because it helps us to remind ourselves that God is bigger than our problems.
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There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.
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I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.
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Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.
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Sometimes the gap between what you are and what you want to be is a little piece of paper called your college degree. So jump.
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If you can't give it all you've got, don't bother.
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For a storyteller, an open ending leaves much room for imagination; for the inquisitive reader, however, it is a source of great anxiety.
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Oh you cut your hair! What happened? Are you going through a breakup or something?""My favorite character died.
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The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.
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When a bookworm finally decides to leave the house, perhaps to explore some literary destination in one of her novels, she will be surprised to know that there is a volatile, often antagonistic force in the real world known as the weather.
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Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
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If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.
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I am bothered by poems I don't understand.
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I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.
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They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.
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It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
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If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see,Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.
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But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.
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If we didn't have nightmares, we wouldn't wake up every morning chasing our dreams.
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When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.
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You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don't really want.
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Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.
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Not all friends know they have lost you.
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Remember the friends who stuck with you when they thought you had nothing.
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If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.
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If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
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Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.
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Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.
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Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.
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When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.
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Books. It's always easier to tell people that a character is funny rather than attempt to hit the punchline of a joke that character would've said. But if we all simply told, books would cease to exist. And so would empathy. And feeling.
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Every morning I tell myself, "I'll sleep early tonight." And every night I say, "One more chapter.
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Non-fiction is to theory as fiction is to experience.
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I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.
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She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
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Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.
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One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.
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There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.
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Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.
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One can hardly do anything productive when one knows there is cake in the fridge.
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There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.
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Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.
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Nobody ever goes before their time.
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Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.
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Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
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Life is a curriculum unique to every student.
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If difficult times teach us the most important lessons, we should then learn to read difficult books.
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The horizon changes but the sun does not.
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It reveals how well you value someone - the way you handle their belongings.
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You don't have to live happily ever after with every single person in your life in order to live happily ever after. Some unfortunate endings are necessary.
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It's only awkward if it matters.
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Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.
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Solitary walks are great for getting new ideas. It's like you're in a video game and you pick up idea coins on the way.
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If you can't write, read.If you can't read, walk.Or walk and read, then write.
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Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.
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Life did come with a manual.
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We like to think we're in control but we never are.
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