Jaime Stoke Reed > Jaime's Quotes

“Sometimes when we are called to obey, the fear does not subside and we are expected to move against the fear. One must choose to do it afraid.”
― Elisabeth Elliot

“We mistakenly believe that there is a lot of time left in the year, and we act accordingly. We lack a sense of urgency, not realizing that every week is important, every day is important, every moment is important. Ultimately, effective execution happens daily and weekly!”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

“The encouraging news is that, regardless of how you’ve performed in the past or how you are performing currently, you can be great, beginning today, simply by choosing to do the things you know you need to do.”
― Brian P. Moran, The 12 Week Year

“The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play.”
― Unknown (often incorrectly attributed to Elizabeth Barrett Browning)

“At the end of the day—or, really, from the beginning—building a routine is all about persistence and consistency. Don’t wait for inspiration; create a framework for it.”
― Jocelyn K. Glei, Manage Your Day-To-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind

“A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labours of a spasmodic Hercules.”
― Anthony Trollope

“The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.”
― Orson Scott Card, Enchantment

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Grammar is not just a pain in the ass; it’s the pole you grab to get your thoughts up on their feet and walking. Besides, all those simple sentences worked for Hemingway, didn’t they? Even when he was drunk on his ass, he was a fucking genius.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“... perfectionists often produce very little.”
― Elizabeth Grace Saunders

“This world is beautiful but badly broken. St. Paul said that it groans, but I love it even in its groaning.”
― N.D. Wilson, Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

“A woman who reads is a woman who knows she must act: in courage, in creativity, in kindness, and often in defiance of the darkness around her. She understands that life itself is a story and that she has the power to shape her corner of the drama.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

“To know yourself as an agent in the story of the world, one able to bring light and goodness in the midst of suffering, is a profoundly empowering knowledge, one that I believe comes to every woman who reads.”
― Sarah Clarkson, Book Girl: A Journey Through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

“People read for a multiplicity of reasons. Nearly forty years in, I can tell you why I inhale books like oxygen: I'm grateful for my one life, but I'd prefer to live a thousand --and my favorite books allow me to experience more on the page than I ever could in my actual life.”
― Anne Bogel, I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

“It was very humiliating to be worsted by a girl—a country girl at that, who had passed most of her life on a farm! No doubt she was strong-minded and wanted to vote. I was quite prepared to believe anything of her.”
― L.M. Montgomery, Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1896 to 1901

“After the keen still days of September, the October sun filled the world with mellow warmth...The maple tree in front of the doorstep burned like a gigantic red torch. The oaks along the roadway glowed yellow and bronze. The fields stretched like a carpet of jewels, emerald and topaz and garnet. Everywhere she walked the color shouted and sang around her...In October any wonderful unexpected thing might be possible.”
― Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond

“What a lot of fun you could have, Minty discovered, if you made unimportant things seem important and went about them with enthusiasm!”
― Carol Ryrie Brink, Winter Cottage

“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing both.”
― L.P. Jacks

“None of it has to be perfect; it just has to be in motion. Simply do your best, and ask yourself, Can I realize my dreams in an easy, small way today? I know you can. Why wait? Living your dreams can be simpler than you think. Don’t underestimate the magic of small things.”
― Susie Moore, Let It Be Easy: Simple Ways to Stop Stressing & Start Living

“All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

“Life is too short for you to be the caretaker of the wrong details.”
― Alexandra Stoddard, Living a Beautiful Life: 500 Ways to Add Elegance, Order, Beauty and Joy to Every Day of Your Life

“… and Darcy had never been so bewitched by any woman as he was by her.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice