Tenkara Smart > Tenkara's Quotes

“When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs from yourself, you will learn both peace and joy.”
― Dalai Lama

“All secrets sound the same in the dark.”
― Ryan Graudin, All That Burns

“You can lose your way anywhere.”
― Christine Heppermann, Poisoned Apples: Poems for You, My Pretty

“The problem is that I know exactly how I feel about you and that terrifies me.”
― Laelia Starla, From Prying Eyes

“Love doesn't always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.”
― V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic

“There is only choice, and at every moment, you only have two choices. When you make your decision, you'll know if it was right by the way you feel. If you know it wasn't the right choice, make a different choice.”
― Tenkara Smart, She Named Me Wolf

“The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do it.”
― J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“To die will be an awfully big adventure.”
― J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.”
― Maya Angelou

“Emotional neglect in childhood leads to a painful emotional loneliness that can have a long-term negative impact on a person’s choices regarding relationships and intimate partners.”
― Lindsay C. Gibson, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

“Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right.”
― Max Lucado, He Still Moves Stones: Everyone Needs a Miracle

“He had entered into every relationship in his life in good faith, reveling in the breathless flush of new love for as long as it lasted and then valiantly pretending not to notice that it had faded for as long as he could. When he finally moved on, he always left something of him behind and took something of her along until he became, in essence, every lover he had ever been with. He assimilated all of their strengths and weaknesses, and any virtue he possessed was learned from one woman or another, a consolation prize bestowed on him at their parting.”
― Steve Earle, Doghouse Roses: Stories

“Thought that he was a clock was like a clock was like a spring in a clock when it breaks and explodes when he had his fits. But he was not like a clock or at least was only like a clock to me. But to himself? Who knows? And so it is not he who was like a clock but me.”
― Paul Harding, Tinkers

“Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of earth,
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings”
― John Gillespie MaGee Jr.

“Their life together was filled with bright mornings and starlit nights that consistently outshone the darker times between. Even those hard days were times of learning when their differences became gifts from one to the other.”
― Steve Earle, Doghouse Roses: Stories

“These days, loneliness is the new cancer—a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought upon yourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted, or that it might tempt fate into visiting a similar horror upon them.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Absolute silence of the kind that only the inside of an ancient, country church can bestow.”
― Anna Faversham, Beware the Midnight Train

“Become acquainted with your soul, care for it, for it will outlast all you have.”
― Anna Faversham, Hide in Time

“Chester stood on the shore watching the waves. Some rose, broke and were subsumed by those that followed. Some danced, their white frothy tops rising and falling rhythmically like a ballerina’s white tutu and in their joy they made progress. Others lazily rolled in and fell short of any prize. Occasionally one roared and raced in as if to capture as much of the land as possible.”
― Anna Faversham, Immortality: This Is Probably a Novel

“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.”
― Galileo Galilei

“Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself!”
― Mark A. Cooper, Operation Einstein