Quotes by American Authors - Page 3157

Freedom is realizing you have a choice.
T.F. Hodge
Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.
T.F. Hodge
Do not hate the player, nor the game...rule it!
T.F. Hodge
The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!
T.F. Hodge
Both friend and enemy reside within us. One lives by the rule of compassion, the other by the rule of hard knocks. Though potential influence of either extreme is inevitable, our actions bear witness to the one we embrace.
T.F. Hodge
Having beef with someone is unnecessary and avoidable. Whatever the issue, if not positive, it is an opportunity to cut the excess fat from an unhealthy dietary network. Simply excuse yourself from the table of negativity and lean forward in peace.
T.F. Hodge
My toes are going to come,"-MariannThe Night Owl
Emma Holly
Unless a convention of anarchists visited the library yesterday, most books ought to be in their rightful places.
Evelyn Skye
From the pastor who has an affair with his secretary, to the jerk at the office who happens to be a deacon, to the overbearing boss who can’t miss his Monday night Bible study, Christians today cause more problems for the gospel than all the devil’s demons put together.
Wes Moore
Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.
T.F. Hodge
It is common to represent a title, but inspiring to represent a purpose.
T.F. Hodge
If you have a dream, keep it. But write it down and take appropriate actions to see it manifest.
T.F. Hodge
Making a dream into reality begins with what you have, not with what you are waiting on.
T.F. Hodge
When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip...allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.
T.F. Hodge
Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.
W.H. Auden
What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.
T.F. Hodge
What you are, and who you are should provide greater clarity about where you have been and where you are headed. Although one distinguishes spiritual from physical nature, the ultimate unification of the two is the consequence of the struggle for internal, external and eternal – peace.
T.F. Hodge
It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.
Lauren Zimmerman
I think, to be happy is to be interested and engaged.
Aimee Mann
Your life experience is a moving picture, of which you are writer, director, performer, producer and critic.
T.F. Hodge
What are you prepared to give for your dream? If it is not everything...stop pipe dreaming.
T.F. Hodge
If the fate of the universe was decided in a single moment at the instant of the Big Bang , that was the most creative moment of all.
Deepak Chopra
You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.
Lauren Zimmerman
People fear anyone who differs from what is considered normal, and in a small town the idea of normal can be as narrow as the streets.
Elizabeth Chandler
She knew there were only small joys in life--the big ones were too complicated to be joys when you got all through--and once you realized that, it took a lot of the pressure off.
Lorrie Moore
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.
Charles Bukowski
The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.
Suzy Kassem
That's the problem with best friends. Sometimes they know you better than you know yourself.
Cecily von Ziegesar
Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.
Neal Shusterman
Fully inhale your dream and completely exhale manifestation of it.
T.F. Hodge
One who will not accept solitude, stillness and quiet recurring moments...is caught up in the wilderness of addictions; far removed from an original state of being and awareness. This is 'dis-ease.
T.F. Hodge
The first law of nature is self-preservation. Cut off that which may harm you. But if it is worth preserving, and is meaningful, nourish it and have no regrets. Ultimately, this is true living and love of self...from within.
T.F. Hodge
Never let haters 'still' your flow. They can only do so with your permission.
T.F. Hodge
Don't wish...DO! Don't try...BE! Don't think...KNOW! And above all: Bless a stranger with a small, yet powerful, random act of kindness. You feel me?
T.F. Hodge
Every quote is like a Picasso. The meaning is different for each person and half the admirers miss the true intent and twisted humor of it all.
Shannon L. Alder
While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.
T.F. Hodge
If the thought inspires you, and it feels good and right...it is yours, alone, to exercise. So get right on it!
T.F. Hodge
The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!
T.F. Hodge
Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...
Kellie Elmore
Success is not determined by the outcome. The outcome is the result of having already decided that you are successful to begin with.
T.F. Hodge
Life is short only if you are not living your purpose.
T.F. Hodge
Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon...a place for lonesome hearts.
T.F. Hodge
Each moment of worry, anxiety or stress represents lack of faith in miracles, for they never cease.
T.F. Hodge
If you hold a candle close to you, its flame rises. And if you hold it away from you, its flame shrinks. The same way you hold a candle close to you, keep all your plans, aspirations, projects, and dreams close to you too. Do not share your plans or goals until you complete them, because as you hold your candle away from you, your goals will shrink in the eyes of others. Envy, jealousy, and resentment will put out your flame before it grows.
Suzy Kassem
Someone was coming through the velvet.He was pulling it wide, he was stepping onto Kestrel’s balcony—close, closer still as she turned and the curtain swayed, then stopped. He pinned the velvet against frame. He held the sweep of it high, at the level of his gray eyes, which were silver in the shadows.He was here. He had come.Arin.
Marie Rutkoski
You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.
T.F. Hodge
Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.
Suzy Kassem
We are all connected. When one arm or foot is poisoned, the whole body becomes infected.
Suzy Kassem
The best minds come from the most unexpected faces and places. There is no image for intelligence or genius. Genius is something that cannot be seen. It cannot be produced or manufactured. It is something that even the true genius thinks is unattainable. The genius recognizes he’s just a small pea in a sea of infinite atoms. Knowledge is as infinite as the universe. The man who claims to know all, only reveals to all that he really knows nothing.
Suzy Kassem
The path of peace is not a passive journey. It takes incredible strength not to open a can of 'whoop-ass', justifiably, when ones button is pushed.
T.F. Hodge
Betrayal and dishonor is usually an inside job. Keep it 'sucka-free', loved one!
T.F. Hodge
Manipulation, fueled with good intent, can be a blessing. But when used wickedly, it is the beginning of a magician's karmic calamity.
T.F. Hodge
The greater the spirit, the more one is alone.
Suzy Kassem
Do I look as pretty as I feel?
Alexandra Bracken
Everyone should strive to be a world citizen. Boundaries were created by man, not the Creator. There is no such thing as THEM vs. US. There is only 'WE'.
Suzy Kassem
The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everything that has happened and will happen to me is all part of the story of this enchanted place - all the dreams and visions and understandings that come to me in my dungeon cell. The books helped me see the truth is not in the touch of the stone but in what the stone tells you.
Rene Denfeld
She was completely alone in the world. There was no one at all for her. No one in the world who cared whether she lived or died. Sometimes the horror of that thought threatened to overwhelm her and plunge her down into a bottomless darkness from which there would be no return. If no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Cassandra Clare
Comedy is a necessity to get through life with the fewest scars. Humor is the best antidote to help relieve all struggles.
Suzy Kassem
Some lean back. But those who lean forward are poised to cross the finish-line, first!
T.F. Hodge