Quotes by American Authors - Page 3253

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning.
Anne Tyler
They don't have to know the real you for you to keep being that amazing you! Don't let someone's negative spirit disrupt or corrupt yours. Be you for...you. God is the one that you want to see who you really are.
Marala Scott
Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
Steve Pavlina
As I look back on my own life, I recognize this simple truth: The greatest opportunities were the scariest lions. Part of me has wanted to play it safe, but I’ve learned that taking no risks is the greatest risk of all.
Mark Batterson
Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now.
C. JoyBell C.
The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.
James Baldwin
Friendship is so important. The goal of a good friendship should be for life! To keep it for life! If you find a friendship, and it gives you a joy inside, a peace, and a freedom; keep that friendship for life. Through it all, you stay together. So many friendships are toxic, but the good ones are really good! I always tell my son this, I always say, a friend is for life!
C. JoyBell C.
We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do!
C. JoyBell C.
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…
Aberjhani
No matter where we live on the planet or how difficult our situation seems to be, we have the ability to overcome and transcend our circumstances.
Louise L. Hay
Choose love and joy as much as you can in each moment and watch your life transform.
Amy Leigh Mercree
YOU are the magic code that unlocks your happiness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Focus your heart, mind, and soul on joy and you'll find ultimate success and fulfillment.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Soul mate romance dissolves the superficial and touches your deepest heart with the delightful power of love.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Swirl into joy today by sharing your caring with the world. Be a pillar of positivity.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Caring is what matters, not stuff or status, just people sharing kindness & joy in a web of the heart that spans the globe.
Amy Leigh Mercree
A kind thought, word, or action creates infinite ripples of caring, consideration, and peace.
Amy Leigh Mercree
The secret ingredients to true happiness? Decisive optimism and personal responsibility.
Amy Leigh Mercree
A circle's unity and never ending smoothness is how we can aim to feel inside. Smooth, gentle, accepted, no rough edges, only love for all parts of our selves.
Amy Leigh Mercree
It takes drive and focus to move from potential to reality.
Amy Leigh Mercree
You are limitless! Accept this truth and soar to infinity.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Choosing kindness is the ultimate expression of evolved consciousness. Grow by being kind.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Sometimes being happy takes effort. Invest time and energy in yourself and your happiness.
Amy Leigh Mercree
YOU are your own guru. YOU are your own soul mate. YOU are powerful. Take the reigns and drive your carriage home to love.
Amy Leigh Mercree
When you trust your inner guidance and begin moving in the direction of your dreams (aligned with your individual gifts) you will be cloaked in an armor bestowed upon you by your guardian angel.
Charles F. Glassman
I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake one another, mingle together and dance with each other! You see all of this within seconds of looking up! It’s a living sky, it breathes and it’s real! And I think that when you look at me, you’ll see my rain clouds first, because only after rainclouds can there come the rainbows. You see, if the rainbows come first, then the rainbows aren’t even real, so I think that if people deserve to see my real rainbows, then they will just know that they need to stick around through the rain! Like a Scottish sky, I want to be real and breathing and running. I don’t want to be a clear blue all the time, or a dark grey all the time or have fake rainbows painted onto me; I want to be Scottish.
C. JoyBell C.
Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
E.M.Bounds
You can capture this body of mine, take away my freedom and enslave me. You may even have the power to capture my soul and sentence me to the realm of eternal darkness. But my dreams you cannot touch. They are my will―the very essence of who I am. In them I laugh. In them I cry. In them I love. And in them.....I live.My dreams are untouchable and unceasing.
Richelle E. Goodrich
Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.
Richard Paul Evans
Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!
C. JoyBell C.
Being able to write becomes a kind of shield, a way of hiding, a way of too instantly transforming pain into honey.
John Updike
The power of love can spread magic to the world like nothing else.
Amy Leigh Mercree
When we embrace who we are the world embraces us right back.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Choose joyful abundance in your heart and be unbounded, free, and relaxed. Be relentless with your choice and you’ll make your mark.
Amy Leigh Mercree
We all take a different path to the same place. Why we took the path we did will always be a mystery.
Michael R. Krozer
Here is a universal law: that when it comes to negative and positive, you will always thrive more powerfully in the positive if you have first been immersed in, and have heroically overcome, the polar opposite negative of that thing. To abide in the positive existence of something, without having known and overcome it’s polar opposite— that is to be only a frame of the real structure. Easily toppled down and taken apart. True power is in the hands of the one who thrives in the positive, after having known and conquered the negative. Because when the demons come along, she will say to those demons: “I know you, I have owned you, but now you bow down to me.
C. JoyBell C.
Treat yourself today! You are a unique, sparkling, spectacular soul. Celebrate you!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Love is not a forest fire that burns intensely,hotly and out of control for a brief moment until,its expendable fuel spent,it sputters,seeking in vain for something else to consume,to sustain itself before, finally,it dies:cold, black ash the only evidence of its passing.Love is, instead, a campfire:it provides ample heat and comfortto the twosome who sit before it,and although its flames may at times wane,a well-tended campfire’s embers can be nurtured and fanneduntil the flames once again dance brightly and cheerfully,providing comfort to the couple who cherish the gentle warmth it ministers.
J. Conrad Guest
When your footsteps and thoughts carry you down the same path your heart and soul are directing you, you will know without a doubt that you are headed in the right direction.
Molly Friedenfeld
Many things that don't really mean so much of anything, are wonderful.
C. JoyBell C.
Where are you?" he asked. "I'm right here" she said. "I know, but it feels like one percent of you is somewhere else, where is that one percent?" he said. "I don't know....I think I'm always like that..." she answered. "I like that." "You do?" "Yes, because that way, I have to always look for the one percent to find it.
C. JoyBell C.
If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us.
C. JoyBell C.
It was him, it was always him, they only needed to stand there with their feet buried into the muddy moss and look at each other; to feel each other. Time stopped, movement disappeared and it was both the beginning of everything and the end of everything else. They had each other and there was no name, no title to it other than they just had each other. There was no necessity to be practical, what they had and what they were, was of their own and in their own and I think nothing in the world could have made Lucy happier than to have what they had, to be what they were.
C. JoyBell C.
If Cinderella were given a single shining epiphany (instead of a fairy godmother), she would have realized: "This is my father's house. This is my father's estate. I am the rightful heiress to everything here!" then she would have said: "Get off of my property, take nothing with you, and never show your faces to me again! You ugly, bitter, insecure, envious witches!" And I'm sure she would have been happier, sooner!
C. JoyBell C.
Dance through life flinging kindness like shimmering rainbows. Find your bliss by sharing your heart.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Women united can create movements. We can empower entire generations. We can build peace one action at a time. Together we rise. The time is now.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Breathtaking, splendid, wondrous, sublime, all those words describe you, exactly as you are. You are a work of art! Enjoy your beauty!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Kindness and caring are ambrosia for the soul.
Amy Leigh Mercree
Don’t come back when you realize that I’m rare
Genereux Philip
Enchantment lies in everyday moments if you are observant.
Amy Leigh Mercree
If you seek happiness, look in the mirror. If you seek love, look elsewhere.
Thomas F. Shubnell
Be real, rare, refreshing you! Fan the flames of self love and ignite your light!
Amy Leigh Mercree
Life is not measured by what you have. It's measured by what you give.
Aaron Dennis
Regardless of how black the page, he had always managed to turn it and move on to a new chapter in his life.
Robert Masello
You think that it’s not magic that keeps you alive? Just ‘cause you understand the mechanics of how something works, doesn’t make it any less of a miracle. Which is just another word for magic. We’re all kept alive by magic, Sookie. My magic’s just a little different from yours, that’s all.
Charlaine Harris
God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn from each other and with each other and there is no growing, there is no learning, there is no wonder and no majesty in life if we were like God. We were meant to see colour and difference.To deny these is to lack respect. To blind ourselves to these is to fool one another. To shun these is to deny ourselves growth and knowledge.
C. JoyBell C.
Marmee: Oh, Jo. Jo, you have so many extraordinary gifts; how can you expect to lead an ordinary life? You’re ready to go out and – and find a good use for your talent. Tho’ I don’t know what I shall do without my Jo. Go, and embrace your liberty. And see what wonderful things come of it.
Louisa May Alcott
With my ninth mind I resurrect my firstand dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
Aberjhani
Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for
Abigail Adams
It's not the law of religion nor the principles of morality that define our highways and pathways to God; only by the Grace of God are we led and drawn, to God. It is His grace that conquers a multitude of flaws and in that grace, there is only favor. Favor is not achieved; favor is received.
C. JoyBell C.