Lisa Temple > Lisa's Quotes

“There are no ugly women, only lazy ones”
― Helena Rubinstein

“If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
― R.J. Palacio, Wonder

“Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven." Matthew 5:16”
― Lisa C. Temple, Illuminating Gracie

“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Being single doesn't mean your weak. It means your strong enough to wait for what you deserve.”
― niall horan

“If the only tool in Willem's arsenal was a silent supplication to an absent almighty, then I might as well be sitting next to a raving radical ready to die for the promise of seventy-two virgins and a couple of camels.”
― Lisa C. Temple

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

“Beautiful face. Beautiful body. Horrible attitude. It was the holy trinity of hot boys.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Obsidian

“There is no model, no actress, no Miss America contender that can outshine a happy, confident, secure woman.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

“Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh, it shall be opened.”
― Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
― Oscar Wilde

“If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.”
― Susanna Kaysen

“Exercise - ugh - never one of my favorite things. It wasn't that I was endearingly clumsy like the girl in one of my favorite romance novels, nor was I particularly athletic, either. I suppose, if the truth be told, I was just plain lazy. I had never been attracted to the idea of purposely sweating.

Grace”
― Lisa C. Temple, Illuminating Gracie

“He kicked in the door with one casual blow, leaned in, and said, "Please don't run. I'm not in a good mood. Better if you just sit still."

He cocked his head and listened, then smiled. "Ah," he said. "And there he goes. You two wait here.”
― Rachel Caine, Bite Club

“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.”
― C.S. Lewis

“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
― Mother Teresa

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.”
― Toni Morrison

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear;
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.

- Romeo -”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.”
― Charles W. Eliot

“you can get past a mistake, but it's much harder to get past being a cruel person.”
― Jennifer Brown, Thousand Words

“If you're trying to be miserable, it's important you don't have any goals. No school goals, personal goals, family goals. Your only objective each day should be to inhale and exhale for sixteen hours before you go to bed again. Don't read anything informative, don't listen to anything useful, don't do anything productive. If you start achieving goals, you might start to feel a sense of excitement, then you might want to set another goal, and then your miserable mornings are through. To maintain your misery, the idea of crossing off your goals should never cross your mind.”
― John Bytheway, How to Be Totally Miserable: A Self-Hinder Book