Will Saunders > Will's Quotes

“There’s a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you’ve terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you.”
― Somerset Maugham

“One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Sometimes our walls exist just to see who has the strength to knock
them down.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker, Creep

“Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“You can't forgive your captor and simultaneously be upset at your place in society.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“I don’t need you, but the world, sometimes, seems more peaceful and manageable when holding someone.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Sometimes kindness is wiser than truth”
― Peter Falk

“It will always sound like bragging to those who are slacking.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“It’s AUDACITY and TENACITY that will get you there. TALENT is least important.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Good or bad, I’ve long forgotten about some of the people I used to be. If they were beautiful, remind me in secret.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“It is in the quiet crucible of your personal private sufferings that your noblest dreams are born and God's greatest gifts are given in compensation for what you've been through.”
― Wintley Phipps

“Watch your thoughts, they become words; watch your words, they become actions; watch your actions, they become habits; watch your habits, they become character; watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. FRANK OUTLAW”
― Wintley Phipps, Your Best Destiny: Becoming the Person You Were Created to Be

“These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten):

1. Share everything.
2. Play fair.
3. Don't hit people.
4. Put things back where you found them.
5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS.
6. Don't take things that aren't yours.
7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody.
8. Wash your hands before you eat.
9. Flush.
10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
12. Take a nap every afternoon.
13. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.
14. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
15. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
16. And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned - the biggest word of all - LOOK.”
― Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

“The people we’d want to share it all with die before we get it.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known.”
― Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities