Liam's List Quotes

“When I ask you to listen to me and you start to give me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way,
 you are trampling on my feelings. When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as that may seem. Listen! All I ask is that you listen. Not talk or do—just hear me. I can do for myself. I’m not helpless. Maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless. When you do something for me that I can, and need to do for myself,
 you contribute to my fear and weakness. But when you accept as a simple fact that I am feeling what I feel no matter how irrational it might be,
 then I can get on with understanding what is behind this feeling. Perhaps that is why prayer works for so many people. God is silent and He doesn’t give advice or try to fix things. He just listens and lets you work it out for yourself. So, please listen and just hear me. And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn. Then I’ll listen to you.”
― Haleigh Lovell, Liam's List

“I think a man with a helmet defending his country should make more money than a man with a helmet defending a football, don’t you think?”
― Haleigh Lovell, Liam's List

“When I ask you to listen to me and you start to give me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way,
 you are trampling on my feelings.”
― Haleigh Lovell, Liam's List

“When I ask you to listen to me
and you start to give me advice,
you have not done what I asked.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way,

you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me
and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem,
you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
Listen! All I ask is that you listen.
Not talk or do—just hear me.
I can do for myself. I’m not helpless.
Maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless.
When you do something for me that I can, and need to do for myself,

you contribute to my fear and weakness. But when you accept as a simple fact
that I am feeling what I feel no matter how irrational it might be,

then I can get on with understanding what is behind this feeling.
Perhaps that is why prayer works for so many people.
God is silent and He doesn’t give advice or try to fix things.
He just listens and lets you work it out for yourself.
So, please listen and just hear me.
And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn.
Then I’ll listen to you.”
― Haleigh Lovell, Liam's List

“I think a man with a helmet defending his country should make more than a man with a helmet defending a football, don't you think?”
― Haleigh Lovell, Liam's List

“If someone with multiple personalities threatens to kill himself, is it considered a hostage situation? Can an atheist get insurance against acts of God?” She paused. “Or why hemorrhoids are not called ass-teroids?”
― Haleigh Lovell, Liam's List