Tanya Constantine > Tanya's Quotes

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. JOHN F. KENNEDY”
― Francine Rivers, Bridge to Haven

“Letting go isn’t giving up. It’s trusting God to do whatever He has to do.”
― Francine Rivers, Bridge to Haven

“You can make many plans, but the Lord’s purpose will prevail.”
― Francine Rivers, Bridge to Haven

“He called everyone sweetheart. There was nothing particularly special about it.”
― Maeve Binchy, Tara Road

“he must not know how much power he had to move her.”
― Maeve Binchy, Tara Road

“what it means to serve Him. I am writing with the hope that as you cry and laugh with my family you will”
― Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“1 So Uganda is a nation of young people. Roughly half its citizens are adolescents, and there are few”
― Katie J. Davis, Kisses from Katie: A Story of Relentless Love and Redemption

“We all pretended it would get better, but the unspoken truth is always louder than the stories we tell.”
― Jamie McGuire, Red Hill

“Sam’s my best friend in the world. I can think of no one else I’d rather be spending my Saturdays with. No one makes a better pancake. No one imitates Jimmy Stewart as badly as he does, and no one can make me laugh quite the way he does.   “Did,” I corrected.”
― Elisa Lorello, Ordinary World

“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.”
― Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train

“I want to tell him that I don’t know what I feel. I want him but I’m frightened to want him. I don’t want my happiness to be entirely dependent on somebody else’s, to be a hostage to fortunes I cannot control. His”
― Jojo Moyes, After You

“Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them.…” He”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Choice

“Or: “The ideal student values knowledge for its own sake, as well as for its instrumental uses. He or she hopes to make a contribution to society at large.”
― Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

“I had begun to chase my husband as I had once chased my mother, toe to toe, a shadow girl trying to be what I thought they wanted me to be. I”
― Alice Sebold, The Almost Moon

“Music is like you touch the pulse of the world. Music is always happening, and sometimes you get to touch it for a while, and when you do you know that everything’s connected to everything else.” Then”
― Kim Edwards, The Memory Keeper's Daughter

“I am Music. And I am here for the soul of Frankie Presto. Not all of it. Just the rather large part he took from me when he came into this world. However well used, I am a loan, not a possession. You give me back upon departure. I will gather up Frankie’s talent to spread on newborn souls. And I will do the same with yours one day. There is a reason you glance up when you first hear a melody, or tap your foot to the sound of a drum. All humans are musical. Why else would the Lord give you a beating heart?”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“will share a secret: this is how talents are bestowed. Before newborns open their eyes, we circle them, appearing as brilliant colors, and when they clench their tiny hands for the first time, they are actually grabbing the colors they find most appealing. Those talents are with them for life. The lucky ones (well, in my opinion, the lucky ones) choose me. Music. From that point on, I live inside your every hum and whistle, every pluck of a string or plink of a piano key. I cannot keep you alive. I lack such power. But I infuse you. And”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“One of my disciples, a lanky saxophonist named Sonny Rollins, played his horn for three years on a bridge in New York City, his tender jazz melodies wafting between the traffic noises. I would pause there often, on the girders, just to listen. Or”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“It is not just humans who are musical. Animals, too. This should be obvious in the thousands of birdsongs I have spawned, or the clicking of dolphins, or the moaning of humpback whales.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Truth is light. Lies are shadows. Music is both.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Suddenly it was terribly quiet, as if the earth itself were too stunned to breathe. I know this sound; silence is part of music. But just because something is silent doesn’t mean you aren’t hearing it. Frankie”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“The secret is not to make your music louder, but to make the world quieter.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Barely pausing between songs, he played American compositions like “St. Louis Blues” and “Tiger Rag.” He played “Parfum” from the gypsy legend Django Reinhardt. He”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Dizzy Gillespie, the jazz trumpet player, once said, “It’s taken me all my life to learn what not to play.” He was one of my special ones. And he was quite correct. Silence enhances music. What you do not play can sweeten what you do. But”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“For centuries, musicians have sought to find me at the end of a needle or the bottom of a drink. It is an illusion. And it often ends badly. Take”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Monsieur Django, I presume?” Duke Ellington said, offering his hand. “Monsieur”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“He was switching between classical riffs and the jazz tune, “Body and Soul.”
― Mitch Albom, The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto

“Puzzles forced me to look at something from several angles before I moved on, to look again, and again, and possibly again because each piece—no matter how small or seemingly insignificant—was critical to the whole.”
― Charles Martin, When Crickets Cry

“It’s a funny thing, Markos, but people mostly have it backward. They think they live by what they want. But really what guides them is what they’re afraid of. What they don’t want.”
― Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed

“When we read the Bible, we discover that God’s plan for us is much better than we could ever imagine, but it does involve pain, struggle, and suffering. As we explored in the previous chapter, God wants to remake us into the image of Christ. That is his great goal for us. And we don’t develop the character of Christ without pain, struggle, and suffering. That’s why James told his readers: “Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything” (James 1:2-4).”
― Rob Renfroe, A Way Through the Wilderness: Growing in Faith When Life Is Hard