Quotes by American Authors - Page 166

MOTHER IS WATERI wish I couldShower your head with flowersAnd anoint your feet with my tears,For I know I have caused youSo much heartache, frustration and despair –Throughout my youthful years.I wish I could give youThe remainder of my lifeTo add to yours,Or simply eraseThe lines on your face,And mend all that has been torn.For next to God,You are the fireThat has given lightTo the flame in each of my eyes.You are the fountainThat nourished my growth,And from your chalice –Gave me life.Without the wetness of your love,The fragrance of your water,Or the trickling sounds ofYour voice,I shall always feelthirsty.
Suzy Kassem
We all find means of anesthesia.
Brunonia Barry
It was one of those rare times of shared happiness, of perfect contentment. We had a feeling of expectation, that what was already wonderful would only get better and better as time went on. These moments are one of the rarest, most fragile things in the world. You have to seize the day; you have to recall all the rotten, dirty things you endured to earn this peace. You have to remember to enjoy each minute, each hour, because although you may feel like it's going to last forever, the world plans otherwise. You want to be grateful for every precious second, but you simply can't do it. It's not in human nature to live life to the fullest. Haven't your ever noticed that equal amounts of pain and joy are not, in fact, equal in duration? Pain drags on until you wonder if life will ever be bearable again; pleasure, though, once it's reached its peak, fades faster than a trodden gardenia, and your memory searches in vain for the sweet scent.
George Alec Effinger
It is in the nature of man to want what he does not have. This modern concern for happiness seems a real testimony of its absence.
Criss Jami
If you were to put all of the world’s pain in one fifty-five gallon drum, it would look silly next to the mountains of gold and silver found in each moment with God. Our problem is that we rarely see past the drum – The Dance of the Dead
Ted Dekker
A person must face the root cause of their relentless personal pain. Irrespective of whatever bricks buttress our youthful personal philosophy, pain avoidance, and pain therapy are likely two of its foundation stones.
Kilroy J. Oldster
God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.
Shannon L. Alder
I'd rather see your honest pain than a brave front.
Francine Rivers
Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.
Sharon E. Rainey
Without mountains, we might find ourselves relieved that we can avoid the pain of the ascent, but we will forever miss the thrill of the summit. And in such a terribly scandalous trade-off, it is the absence of pain that becomes the thief of life.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
I don't like remembering the way that hurt her. Hurts her. I'm sure it still does; I'm just not around to see, and I don't like dwelling on that, either. That's only normal. Missing people you still love, and not wanting to see them in pain and angry and humiliated.
Caitlín R. Kiernan
For love to eliminate pain is to waste it, for it is love alone that possesses sufficient force to bend pain against everything that would break us.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Thankfully, the nature of pain reminds us of what the ease of pleasure foolishly allows us to forget.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Jesse stirs again. This time his fingers twitch. As much as I want to see him open his eyes, I can’t be here for that. It’ll make leaving him too hard. I turn toward the doorway and I’m outside in the main room of the ICU when I hear his weakened voice say, “Winter?”I hurry back to the waiting area. Hopefully he’ll think he dreamed me. Maybe he did. Sometimes I feel like I’m not even real anymore
Paula Stokes
I know what it is to become something you hate, I know how it hurts. But life is full of hurt. And your capacity for baring it is much greater than you believe."pg 287
Veronica Roth
I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home.
Kate McGahan
We live in a world of shadow and light, pain and joy. We spend our entire lives investigating the many possible patterns of human experience including interactions between humankind and nature and with one another. We must learn from our chronicles and assist future generations by living a fully engaged life attempting to ascertain how to live in an authentic and joyous manner.
Kilroy J. Oldster
Pain is a crucial part of our reality; it awakens a person from a mental stupor. A person must never be afraid to discover where their pain originates, follow pain to where it emanates from, learn from its messages, and reject the mindless business and busyness of contemporary culture in order to fuel an artistic vision of the self.
Kilroy J. Oldster
... we can know with confidence that God sees us. He hears us. He knows us and feels our pain. He loves us and He acts on our behalf.
Teresa Schultz
Failure is information encased in a shell of pain.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
He finally pulled it all back into his heart, sucking in the painful tide of his misery. In the Glade, Chuck had become a symbol for him—a beacon that somehow they could make everything right again in the world. Sleep in beds. Get kissed goodnight. Have bacon and eggs for breakfast, go to a real school. Be happy.But now Chuck was gone. And his limp body, to which Thomas still clung, seemed a cold talisman—that not only would those dreams of a hopeful future never come to pass, but that life had never been that way in the first place. That even in escape, dreary days lay ahead. A life of sorrow.His returning memories were sketchy at best. But not much good floated in the muck.Thomas reeled in the pain, locked it somewhere deep inside him. He did it for Teresa. For Newt and Minho. Whatever darkness awaited them, they’d be together, and that was all that mattered right then.
James Dashner
It’s amazing the damage we do to ourselves and others when all we’re trying to do is protect ourselves from being hurt.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stupidity is to have amnesia over your own faults when the person you hate makes theirs.
Shannon L. Alder
Silent as a flower, her face fell in dismay, aware that the ghost of lust ate and left, sensing that there was a different scent of perfume consuming the room, and that she had numbered and counted the he loves me, he loves me not of each petal, where the lifeless dust had settle.
Anthony Liccione
Don’t be with him, don’t want him, don’t go with him. Be with me. Want me. Stay with me.I don’t know how to be without you.
Cassandra Clare
I wonder if pain comes from surrendering or resisting?
Donna Lynn Hope
Exhaustion is temporary. Pain is temporary. But Helene dying because I didn't find a way to get her back on time—that's permanent.
Sabaa Tahir
So if you love me, let me go.And run away before I know.My heart is just too dark to care.I can't destroy what isn't there.Deliver me into my fate -If I'm alone I cannot hateI don't deserve to have you...My smile was taken long agoIf I can change I hope I never know
Slipknot
I was not weak; I did not cry. But it hurt me, more in a kind of refreshing, thrilling way, than a kind of pain that would cripple me and send me away crying. My fingernails dug into the palms of my hands, and my teeth bit into my lips, my knees were locked, but I could not faint.
Alysha Speer
The most basic and somehow forgettable thing is this: Love is not pain. Love is goodness. And real love--it's less shiny than solid and simple.
Deb Caletti
I've always known we were two puzzle pieces that fit together in a hollow that is our pain. There was a time when I was certain we were too damaged not to destroy each other. Now I think we are saving each other.
Lisa Renee Jones
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;Weep, and you weep alone;For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,But has trouble enough of its own.Sing, and the hills will answer;Sigh, it is lost on the air;The echoes bound to a joyful sound,But shrink from voicing care.Rejoice, and men will seek you;Grieve, and they turn and go;They want full measure of all your pleasure,But they do not need your woe.Be glad, and your friends are many;Be sad, and you lose them all,—There are none to decline your nectared wine,But alone you must drink life’s gall.Feast, and your halls are crowded;Fast, and the world goes by.Succeed and give, and it helps you live,But no man can help you die.There is room in the halls of pleasureFor a large and lordly train,But one by one we must all file onThrough the narrow aisles of pain.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.
Chuck Palahniuk
Music is the language of the universe. Music was there even before the concept of life. Music is one of the most powerful catalysts of evolution.
Debasish Mridha
Smile to lighten up.
Debasish Mridha
A wise person is silent and rarely wants to show his wisdom. A fool is always vocal and uses every opportunity to show his foolishness.
Debasish Mridha
True freedom comes only from true wisdom.
Debasish Mridha
Oh my love, you are my life boat in the ocean of my life.
Debasish Mridha
Nothing is easy. To change or to accept changes is difficult.
Debasish Mridha
Those who can show love are always kind. Those who cannot show love cannot be kind.
Debasish Mridha
Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions.
Debasish Mridha
You may not be able to find peace until you create it inside your forgiving mind.
Debasish Mridha
Burdens of life become lighter when your heart is filled with love and we learn to forgive and forget with profound kindness.
Debasish Mridha
It is not very difficult to build world peace. We just have to be kind to each other and treat each other with great care.
Debasish Mridha
With every sunrise, our hearts sing with joy, our minds dance with love, and our lives get energized with new life.
Debasish Mridha
I intend to live in the beauty of past memories for I know them the best. At this moment, the future is unknown so it will be an adventure for me.
Debasish Mridha
You are an infinite being with infinite love and infinite thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness.
Debasish Mridha
The greatest gift that you can give anyone is your pure love.
Debasish Mridha
A flower teaches us how to love.
Debasish Mridha
To enhance your experience and consciousness, your mind is always trying to understand everything that is going on around you.
Debasish Mridha
You can never achieve greatness until you can leave bitterness behind.
Debasish Mridha
If you can think it, you can become it.
Debasish Mridha
Feelings are the language of the heart. Everything else is static noise.
Debasish Mridha
I don’t want fame, money, or duty. I want to close my eyes and see your loving beauty.
Debasish Mridha
I failed many times, but I always found myself stronger and wiser.
Debasish Mridha
Touch your enemies’ heart with love. It will bloom flowers of gratitude and joy.
Debasish Mridha
Dreams come true if we can pursue them by overcoming the fear of failure.
Debasish Mridha
I am not pretty; I am not ugly. I am not true, and I am not false. I am just me—a reality, a conception, and not a misinterpretation.
Debasish Mridha
Life is a choice. Choose to live and not merely survive.
Debasish Mridha