Joyce Rachelle Quotes - Page 2

There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don't know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.
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Nobody ever goes before their time.
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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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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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As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother's writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.
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Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
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What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?
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May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.
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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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Ambition is a stairway that never ends.
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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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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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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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I'm not an insomniac. It's just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.
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Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?
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When we get too comfortable, we stop dreaming.
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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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Some things sound better if they don't come from you.
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Not everything you're good at is what you're called to do.
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There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.
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Have you ever had a dream so strong it slapped you in the face every time you looked away?
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Try staying awake for 24 hours and you'll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.
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The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.
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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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It's because the door hasn't been closed yet that the nightmares still find their way in.
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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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We like to think we're in control but we never are.
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Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.
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Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
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Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.
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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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Take care not to welcome today the terrors that will make yesterday's demons look like angels.
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Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.
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She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.
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Woe to him who offends a patient man who has just reached his limit.
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Some secrets are heavy because they aren't yours to tell.
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When we're struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it's a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.
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There is more to hear in what is not said.
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True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.
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How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?
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Most often when I stammerThat's my brainCorrecting my grammer.
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Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude.
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Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.
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Frustration often steers you to the right path.
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She didn't realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.
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How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.
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Life did come with a manual.
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Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.
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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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But that was just a shadow of what would come to pass:When one appointed season Christ came to die at last.And in the name of justice they flogged him like a thief,But willing was the victim of human disbelief.
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If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.
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What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.
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And with the Savior's passing came Satan's sure defeatChrist whispered, "It is finished," for payment was complete.I could not earn salvation, it's been dispensed for freeAnd mercy's gates would open, as He has died for me.
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For in that perfect garden when one day entered sin,An animal was murdered for garments made of skin.When figs of human effort produced religious strife,The Father tailored clothing for Adam and his wife.
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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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It's a singular sort of pain, watching the most beautiful creature self-destruct because you weren't able to find the red wire.
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Life is a curriculum unique to every student.
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How did I prepare for night shifts? When I was a small, anxious kid, I checked my mom in her sleep to make sure she was still breathing.
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