Joan Walker > Joan's Quotes

“I mentally attacked myself for most of my teens and twenties before I learned how to love myself in my thirties.”
― jenn sadai

“Once I learned my life was valuable, I started to treat it that way.”
― Jenn Sadai, Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman

“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.
In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.”
― Tahereh Mafi, Shatter Me

“Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.”
― Alexander Pope

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

“The life you are living now doesn't have to be the life you will always live.”
― Jenn Sadai, Dark Confessions of an Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman

“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy.’ They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― Nick Offerman, Paddle Your Own Canoe: One Man's Principles for Delicious Living

“The LORD is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
[Psalms 23]”
― Anonymous, The Holy Bible: King James Version

“So many things become beautiful when you really look.”
― Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

“You don’t love someone you lie to. And you don’t lie to someone you love.”
― Karen Kingsbury, Just Beyond the Clouds

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“My life has been filled with unexpected disappointments and tragedies that led to incredible and rewarding opportunities.”
― Jenn Sadai, Dirty Secrets of the World's Worst Employee

“When you get lost in the flow of life, find yourself in the fortress of God!”
― Mary Kate

“God has the flashlight, let Him LIGHT the way!”
― Mary Kate

“The best people all have some kind of scar.”
― Kiera Cass, The One

“It's not natural for women to fight."
"It's not natural for someone to be as stupid as he is tall, and yet there you stand.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows

“As women in today's society, we are encouraged to compare ourselves to other women when what we need to do is focus on our own strengths, our own capabilities, our own beauty.”
― Cameron Diaz The Body Book

“It only takes a second to call a girl fat and She'll take a lifetime trying to starve herself.. think before you act.”
― Harry Styles

“A dream is only a dream.. until you decide to make it real”
― Harry Styles

“Please believe that one single positive dream is more important than a thousand negative realities.”
― Adeline Yen Mah, Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

“We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.”
― Walter Mosley, Blue Light

“The hardness of a diamond is part of its usefulness, but its true value is in the light that shines through it.”
― B.K.S. Iyengar, Light on Life

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”
― C.S. Lewis

“Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.”
― Robert Louis Stevenson

“I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort; open up and let the Lord inspire you!”
― Mary Kate

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

“In all the land there is only one you, possibly two, but seldom more than sixteen.”
― Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
― Ayn Rand

“The more I thought about the reasons behind my insecurities, the more I realized that my issues with my appearance had nothing to do with reality. I didn’t feel fat because I was sluggish or unable to move my body with ease. I felt fat because I didn’t fit the mold of what society has taught me a woman should look like.”
― Jenn Sadai, Cottage Cheese Thighs