Friday, September 19, 2014

New Arrivals


 New Arrivals 

You can find new quotes by date here.  I sometimes don't have time to categorize them until later.  The highlighted ones have been categorized.  As you can tell I am really into Nora Roberts books right now :)

January, 4, 2015
Church was a man with two sides to his life, like a coin. One I wished I could keep in my pocket.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

Only trees are rooted in land, and there they stay. You should know this, great oak. But a man whose heart is rooted in family finds a home wherever his pack is, and he is truly the free man.”
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

January 3, 2015
But this is my life, and I have to accept it even if I don’t like it. You can’t live in denial or it catches up with you.”
- Six Months, Dannika Dark

Sometimes things that are worth having are worth fixing up. Not everything comes in perfect condition, but it doesn’t mean it’s not the right one for you.”
- Shifters After Dark, Dannika Dark

“Hate burns most fiercely in a heart once filled with love.”
- Shifters After Dark, Dannika Dark

“Love makes a man more loyal than fear.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

There is something pure and honest in the way a man treats a woman when he thinks she isn’t aware.
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

“Tears are not just for children. My mother once told me that a soul is a river and that the spirits give us teardrops when we have converged with another life. We overflow with them because our spirits become wider and deeper than before. Those who lack love or compassion will not be given the gift of tears.”
-Four Days, Dannika Dark

October 15, 2014
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
-Henry Stanley Haskins, Meditations on Wall Street, 1940

October 14, 2014
No one likes to be interrupted, but everyone likes to be heard.
-Margaret Shepard, The Art of Civilized Conversation

October 10, 2014
Once you stop thinking of your heart as a weapon instead of a gift, you'll find what you're looking for.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea



October 8, 2014
When you forget what you have for what you've lost, grieving's an indulgence
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea


October 6, 2014

You decide what you think.  You decide what you put in your mind and so determine what you get back.
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

 October 5, 2014

Your mind is a magnet.  Continue to dwell on what you want and you will achieve it. 
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy


October 4, 2014

If you are miserable about all the things you want but haven't got, think about all the things you don't want and haven't got!  There is a positive side to everything!
-Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
 -Andrew Matthews, Being Happy

October 3, 2014

Some people want the simple and the ordinary and the quiet.  It doesn't make those who want the complicated and extraordinary and the exciting greedy or selfish.  Wanting's wanting, whatever the dream.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea

October 2, 2014

You are not the enemy and neither is your child.  You and your child are allies against a common enemy...[t]hey are enemies we all face: fear, stress, intolerance, misunderstanding, discouragement, exhaustion, disappointment.
-Lucy Palladino, PHD, Dreamers, Discoverers & Dynamos

Once you stop thinking of your heart as a weapon instead of a gift, you'll find what you're looking for.
 -Nora Roberts, Heart of the Sea


October 1, 2014

If you think you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
 -Walter Mondale

The race is not always to the swift. (I like this short and sweet version about the Tortoise and Hare story)
-Aesops Fables for Children, The Hare and the Tortoise

September 30, 2014

Act in hast and repent at leisure - and often in pain.
-Aesops Fables for Children, The Dog and the Oyster

September 29, 2014

We don't need an army.  We just need to convince everyone that we have one."
 -Brandon Sanderson, Infinity Blade Redemption

An ember deep within.  Not a fire - no, a fire consumed and left its host as ash.  A ember was a truer flame - less transient, more powerful.

 -Brandon Sanderson, Infinity Blade Redemption

September 26, 2014

Life is interesting, even though you know what's coming, it still surprises you.
-Mamijammi.blogspot.com original

Adjustments can't be all on one side, darling, else the balance goes of and what's being built just falls down.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

September 20, 2014

You can't play magic inside the heart, for it's more powerful than any spell.  Lust you can order up with a wink, desire with a smile.  But love is love, and there is nothing can touch it.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

Girl if you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it.  if you don't ask, the answer's always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

When there was a crack in something it only widened if you didn't tend to it.  Let it go long enough, a crack became a break, and you had a hell of a mess on your hands.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon

You don't fix a man the way you do a fault in a pipe or a leak in a roof.  You take him as he is...or you don't take him at all.
-Nora Roberts, Tears of the Moon



September 19, 2014

Because if you had confidence enough to try something, you had to have courage enough to fail.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

Words have magic.  Spells and curses.  Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

A single choice can build destinies or destroy them.  Choose well.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

Poetry doesn't most usually spring from joy, does it, but from sorrows.
-Nora Roberts, Jewels of the Sun

What matters is not whether you had a bad day or two, but that you're able to create enough good days to get you where you want to go.
-Manny Ibay, Esq., Thank You, Tony Robbins


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