Bree > Bree's Quotes

“Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.”
― Coco Chanel

“A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to prove you're a lady.”
― Edith Head, The Dress Doctor

“Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once.”
― Audrey Hepburn

“...if He has a message to get across to us, He will continually reaffirm what He has said through a variety of ways.”
― Tracie Miles, Your Life Still Counts: How God Uses Your Past To Create A Beautiful Future

“I’ve drawn this as a circle because the seasons will come and go. Joy always leads to another season of romance . . . which always leads to another season of trouble . . . which always leads to disillusionment . . . which always leads to more joy— if you hang in there.”
― Kurt Bubna

“So if we have a mouth problem, in actuality what we really have is a mind and heart issue.”
― Karen Ehman, Keep It Shut: What to Say, How to Say It, and When to Say Nothing at All

“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The moon reminds me that God made it just for us. And that back when Jesus lived on the earth, He went to sleep every night, just like me, and He, too, likely looked up at it---at the same exact moon I see every night---from wherever He laid His head. And where did he lay His head, compared to where we lay ours every night? On the dirt and grass of the earth. He took nothing for Himself, and now He provides me with a bed, and a roof, and all these friends, and meals...and this music class.”
― Dawn Crandall, The Bound Heart

“Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.”
― Truman Capote

“Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it, but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can spend it. Once you've lost it you can never get it back.”
― Harvey MacKay

“I would hesitate to use the word 'success' in the way many people do. I don't know that I would apply it to what I've done as though I have now reached the ultimate goal. To me success is a continuing thing. It is growth and development. It is achieving one thing and using that as a stepping stone to achieve something else. Success comes as you have confidence in yourself. Self-confidence is built by succeeding, even if the success is small. It is the believing that makes it possible.”
― Walter Knott

“Enjoy the journey, because the destination is a mirage.”
― Steven Furtick

“Sometimes, we just have to have enough faith to practice patience and not let our impatience morph into doubt.”
― Tracie Miles, Your Life Still Counts: How God Uses Your Past To Create A Beautiful Future

“God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.”
― Rick Warren

“My pastor used to say you’re either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.”
― Craig Groeschel, Altar Ego: Becoming Who God Says You Are

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

“I've learned that sometimes during these lengthy times of waiting on God to show up, we can gain comfort by looking at the bigger picture because history proves that the bigger the suffering, the bigger the opportunity for God to really show off.”
― Tracie Miles, Your Life Still Counts: How God Uses Your Past To Create A Beautiful Future

“Lord, please do this ... or do something better!”
― Priscilla Shirer, God is Able

“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

“How could she understand it then——that one of her greatest blessings would come only through her greatest wound?”
― Cathy LaGrow, The Waiting: The True Story of a Lost Child, a Lifetime of Longing, and a Miracle for a Mother Who Never Gave Up

“It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.”
― C.S. Lewis

“I love you so very much I don't even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.”
― Nancy Reagan, I Love You, Ronnie: The Letters of Ronald Reagan to Nancy Reagan

“It seems to me that everyone has to make adjustments to life, that we all have our limitations, but that if we are wise we do not make other people miserable by concentrating on these limitations. One of the fundamental responsibilities of every human being in his relationship with others is to create happiness, not destroy it. We also have responsibilities toward ourselves. The prime one is not to make ourselves miserable by dwelling on something we can do nothing about.”
― Sonora Carver, A Girl and Five Brave Horses