Beth > Beth's Quotes

“Never give anyone permission to hurt your feelings. Always face them by standing up for what is right and you will feel strong. If you do not stand strong, people will pity you, and then you lose something adults call dignity. Never accept pity. No one on earth is better than anyone else.”
― John J. Siefring, An Important Day

“Charles, we should never stop pretending. Pretending can lead to wishing. Wishing then leads to hoping. Hoping then moves to dreaming. Dreaming can then lead to planning. If we are lucky, some plans come true.”
― John J. Siefring, An Important Day

“It was as if some manual was handed out one day, a manual of instructions about complicated social situations. But I wasn't there the day they handed it out. The worst part was, nobody even told me it was distributed. It was like, they kept it secret from me.”
― John J. Siefring, An Important Day

“We read to know we're not alone.”
― William Nicholson, Shadowlands: A Play

“We are all the same. The sun shines its light on big and small, rich or poor, most especially, the kind.”
― John J. Siefring, Caleb's Window

“It’s perhaps best we don’t always know that we have approached a space and time when what we say or do is so crucial as to possibly determine the direction another life will take.”
― John J. Siefring, Caleb's Window