Dee Cherry > Dee's Quotes

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”
― Nelson De Mille

“Maybe some people just aren't meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It's like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that's why they're here. You'll have that gift forever.”
― Danielle Steel, The Gift

“There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
― Sharon Pollock

“I watch kids how I watch kids. I don’t want nobody telling me how to take care of him,”
― T. Styles, And They Call Me God

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.”
― Daniel Defoe

“I know all about endings. It is beginnings that elude me.”
― Marion Zimmer Bradley, Marion Zimmer Bradley's Ancestors of Avalon

“I give everyone a chance to prove themselves before I dismiss them.”
― Terry McMillian

“We have eyes, and we're looking at stuff all the time, all day long. And I just think that whatever our eyes touch should be beautiful, tasteful, appealing, and important.”
― Eric Carle

“We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”
― Edward Gibbon

“‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.”
― Chico Xavier

“She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it).”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass

“Life is just action and reaction, rationalizations are added later on”
― Ibn-e-Safi

“Maybe the grass is greener on the other side depends who was standing in it. Sometimes you have to go over there and look.”
― Lynne Rae Perkins

“God didn't create you to walk around in self-defeat in any form. Neither are we fashioned to become someone's emotional slave; adhering to the harshness of their words in humility and remorse, while fearing a verbal lashing if we reject their false authority.”
― T.K. Ware, God Doesn't Condemn You, Neither Do I

“For those who are of the household of faith, even during troublesome times, they must remember what God had already said about them in His word. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Charles, you have the ability to stand against the adversary. And remember, a lie or darkness is exposed when it's confronted with the light of truth.”
― T.K. Ware, Trial of Injustice

“Nature is cruel, but we don't have to be.”
― Temple Grandin

“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The constant happiness is curiosity.”
― Alice Munro

“She believed, of course ... because without something to believe in, life would be intolerable.”
― Rosamunde Pilcher, The Shell Seekers

“You can't lie to your soul.”
― Irvine Welsh, Porno

“Reading brings us unknown friends”
― Honore de Balzac

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“The heaviness of loss in her heart hadn't eased, but there was room there for humour, too.”
― Nalo Hopkinson, Brown Girl in the Ring

“The nicest thing about feeling happy is that you think you'll never be unhappy again.

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― Manuel Puig, Kiss of the Spider Woman and Two Other Plays

“One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.”
― Edward Abbey

“One must dare to be happy. ”
― Gertrude Stein

“Don't compromise yourself - you're all you have.”
― John Grisham, The Rainmaker