Quotes by Bloggers - Page 6

The general intellectual level of South Florida is somewhere just above "functionally retarded".
Tucker Max
Much of the self-help world is predicated on peddling highs to people rather than solving legitimate problems. Many self-help gurus teach you new forms of denial and pump you up with exercises that feel good in the short term, while ignoring the underlying issue. Remember, nobody who is actually happy has to stand in front of a mirror and tell himself that he’s happy.
Mark Manson
You don’t have to be positive all the time. It’s perfectly okay to feel sad, angry, annoyed, frustrated, scared, or anxious. Having feelings doesn’t make you a ‘negative person.’ It makes you human.
Lori Deschene
You only need one ray of light to chase all the shadows away.
Fredrik Backman
No matter what happens in your life, keep an open heart and mind with a gentle smile. It's the true beauty of the heart.
Imania Margria
Solitude is an unmarked place beyond the borders of the map, a place where most fear to tread. It’s no surprise, then, that this is where the greatest secrets and most valuable treasures are hidden.
Cristen Rodgers
It has been passed down in many texts of old and by the word of mouth; that no matter the strength of the weapons of man, there is only one thing powerful enough to defeat them all... The power of love.
Imania Margria
No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the language of the heart, love.
Imania Margria
We all make mistakes. The more you punish yourself for them, the harder it is to live.
Kristina Adams
Do not strive to be perfect. Strive to be perfectly imperfect.
Imania Margria
Going to the seaside in winter is like seeing your partner first thing in the morning. Ugly, depressing and troubled by wind.
Andy Leeks
People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned. - from the Austin Road Trip story
Tucker Max
All passion is childish. It's banal and naive. It's nothing we learn; it's instinctive, and so it overwhelms us. Overturns us. It bears us away in a flood. All other emotions belong to the earth, but passion inhabits the universe.
Fredrik Backman
Those who truly want greatness must surround themselves with people even greater than they are.
Dan Pearce
It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice.
Kristen Lamb
Sometimes you just have to find the majesty in yourself and other things to truly appreciate life.
Imania Margria
Space is a precious thing to waste. You don't want to fill your house with anything that doesn't directly add to your happiness.
Sherry Petersik
So much enthusiasm about the non-existence of God is somewhat bewildering, as no one appears to be nearly as excited about a similar absence of belief in unicorns, vampires, werewolves, astrology, nation-building, or the Labor Theory of Value. Nor is anyone dedicating much of their time to writing books and giving speeches at universities and conferences with the avowed goal of convincing others not to believe in them either.
Vox Day
He went through life with his hands firmly shoved into his pockets. She danced.
Fredrik Backman
What you do is your choice. You can make good or bad choices, but there will never be any right or wrong to who you are.
Imania Margria
Sometimes the only reason why you won't let go of someone making you sad is because he was the only one that once made you happy.
Lily Amis
Further to this, Ove has the cat's resentful stares to contend with. Something in its eyes reminds him of the way Sonja used to look at him.
Fredrik Backman
Be real. Embrace that you have weakness. Because everyone does. Embrace that your body is not perfect. Because nobody’s is. Embrace that you have things you can’t control. We all have a list of them.
Dan Pearce
You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.
Wil Wheaton
Once I am aware of what has been on my mind and have established ways to respond in faith with a particular prayer, sacred word, or silence before God, my anxious thoughts lose a great deal of their power.
Ed Cyzewski
Winners have a tendency to be forgiven in this town.
Fredrik Backman
The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?
Dan Pearce
Time to get a go on this drop-dead-gorgeous morning.
Coco J. Ginger
Fishing is much less about the fishing, and much more about the time alone with your kid, away from the hustle and bustle of the everyday.
Dan Pearce
I hope Marcus (giggle) is there. Maybe he can defeat the evil Cullens with his mighty battle cry, "I can see relationships!!!
Dan Bergstein
What we don't know can't hurt us.
John Scalzi
Hate can be a deeply stimulating emotion. The world becomes easier to understand and much less terrifying if you divide everything and everyone into friends and enemies, we and they, good and evil. The easiest way to unite a group isn't through love, because love is hard, It makes demands. Hate is simple. So the first thing that happens in a conflict is that we choose a side, because that's easier than trying to hold two thoughts in our heads at the same time. The second thing that happens is that we seek out facts that confirm what we want to believe - comforting facts, ones that permit life to go on as normal. The third is that we dehumanize our enemy.
Fredrik Backman
Once you learn to celebrate your failures, you are on the way to becoming the real deal!
Harsh Agrawal
To dream is to desire, to desire is to long for, to long for is to want, and to want you must work to attain all you dream of, desire, long for and want.
Imania Margria
In the moment, you most likely won't know how valuable such detours will prove to be, but life has a way of revealing the hidden magic in these moments down the road at the appropriate time.
Shannon Ables
Who I am is not the same minute to minute or day to day. There are far too many variables for that to ever be true, for me, or for anyone.
Dan Pearce
As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.
Wil Wheaton
Everyone, no matter what kind of job he or she has, fantasizes about freaking out at work. How many corporate drones, stuck in a boring staff meeting, have had the sudden urge to jump on top of the conference table and start screaming obscenities? Strip off their clothes? Kiss the woman or man next to them? We all have. How many employees joke about shooting the boss or blowing the place up? I’m not suggesting we do any of these things, mind you, but let’s not kid ourselves; we all have a little murder in our heart.
Steve Dublanica
Our past is what molds us into the person we are today. It does not define us.
Imania Margria
Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incredible and powerful bond that skin on skin contact with your daughter will give you? Do you not understand the permanent mental connections that are made when you stroke your son’s bare back or rub your daughter’s bare tummy while you tell bedtime stories? And if any idiot says anything about that being inappropriate, you’re gonna get kicked in the face, first by me, and then by every other good dad out there. Touching your child is your duty as a father.
Dan Pearce
The women glare at each other. Grin. You have friends when you're fifteen years old. Sometimes you get them back.
Fredrik Backman
If you are looking for verses with which to oppress women, you will find them. If you are looking for verses with which to liberate and honor women, you will find them.
Rachel Held Evans
Friendship is like a flower. It needs daily love and care to blossom. If you forget to give it water, the flower dies. It’s as simple as that! Teddy
Lily Amis
Life is too short to eat food that doesn't taste good.
Alana Chernila
He offered her power, money, status...a giant prison, all in exchange for only...her soul.
Coco J. Ginger
You’re a mess, I confess, I despise you in the best kind of way.
Coco J. Ginger
Then you're seventy-five, friends are dead, and you've replaced at least one major organ: you have to pee four times a night, and you can't go up a flight a stairs without being little winded -- and your're told you're in pretty good shape for your age. [....], in a decade you'll be eighty-five, and the only difference between you and a raisin will be that while you're both wrinkled and without a prostate, the raisin never had a prostate to begin with.
John Scalzi
When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.
Rachel Held Evans
I am insane, does that surprise you? Ha! I think my mind is crumbling, just like crackers. If I had written five minutes earlier I would have wept, if I had written ten minutes earlier I would have told you to leave me alone, if I wait any longer I won’t write at all.
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Normal life is presentable. In normal life, you clean up the kitchen and keep your balcony tidy and take care of your children. It's hard work--harder than one might think.
Fredrik Backman
Just everything else, Mum. I just have everything else from you.
Fredrik Backman
When we become more self-aware of our needs, we become better-equipped to takecare of ourselves.
Aletheia Luna
I miss your silent stature, your avoided days of disaster, your present state of distress.I’m cinnamon, cloves and fire, you are the rested cedarwood of desire.
Coco J. Ginger
Time can be cruel if you don’t use it wisely ~ Imani Wisdom, Zion's Road: A Love Story about Faith and Redemption.
Imani Wisdom
I wondered then if there could ever be trust in a relationship based from the outset upon deceiving other people.
Catherine Sanderson
Sometimes the purpose of the rose is simply to draw attention to the rose.
Cristen Rodgers
You don’t deserve my image in your head. You don’t deserve my memories in your chest.
Coco J. Ginger
I HOLDIf I could have had him,I could have let himgo.But withoutthe having there was nothing—so to the nothingIhold.
Coco J. Ginger
The Professor noted two nymphs with strawberries on their heads, a DayGlo Amish lady, a mustachioed man in a rainbow apron. He wrote Saturday Night Fever, then crossed it out and wrote Drag Ball + Bollywood and underlined it twice.
La Carmina
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to it’s own devices and creates you to be much more then reality would ever allow.
Coco J. Ginger