“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”
“No one can take the place of a friend, no one.”
“We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.”
“When you learn, teach, when you get, give.”
“A person is the product of their dreams. So make sure to dream great dreams. And then try to live your dream.”
“We are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike.”
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.”
“The ache for home lives in all of us. The safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.”
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”
“I sustain myself with the love of family.”
“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”
“I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.”
“All great achievements require time.”
“A Woman in harmony with her spirit
is like a river flowing.
She goes where she will without pretense and arrives at her destination
prepared to be herself
and only herself ”
“We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans — because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone- because we have the impulse to explain who we are. Not just how tall we are, or thin… but who we are internally… perhaps even spiritually. There’s something, which impels us to show our inner-souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.”
“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”
“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, but because it has a song.”
“The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough.”
“The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed.”
“You can only become great at something you are willing to sacrifice for.”
“Living well is an art that can be developed: a love of life and ability to take great pleasure from small offerings and assurance that the world owes you nothing and that every gift is exactly that, a gift. ”
“The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you.”
“One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.”
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.”
“Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God.”
“This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before.”
“Faith is the evidence of the unseen.”
“I will look after you and I will look after anybody you say needs to be looked after, any way you say. I am here. I brought my whole self to you. I am your mother.”
“The epitome of sophistication is utter simplicity.”
“I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss”
“There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.”
“Love is a condition so powerful; it may be that which pulls the stars in the firmament. It may be that which pushes and urges the blood in the veins. Courage: you have to have courage to love somebody because you risk everything – everything.”
“Having courage does not mean that we are unafraid. Having courage and showing courage means we face our fears.”
“Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. ”
“Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”
“The honorary duty of a human being is to love.”
“In the flush of love’s light
we dare be brave
And suddenly we see
that love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.”
Check Jocelyn's books:
"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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