Just Quotes (page 233)

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• life
• wisdom
• powerful

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. Life just has to go on! Rick Warren

• sorry
• feeling
• doings

People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped. Iain Banks

• senses
• aware
• awareness

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness John Lennon

• baseball
• time
• history

Few names have left a firmer imprint upon the pages of the history of American times than has that of Ty Cobb... he seems to have understood that in the competition of baseball, just as in war, defensive strategy never has produced ultimate victory. Douglas MacArthur

• love
• trust
• forming

The way i see it, love is just a bigger, stickier form of trust. Jodi Picoult

• nature
• dead
• oh

What's the nature of your emergency?' oh, shit! Just come! There are dead people out here! Charlaine Harris

• understanding
• informs
• justly

anyone can understand anything. You just have to know how to present your information. Jodi Picoult

• women
• manly
• man

A man is just a woman's strategy for making other women. Margaret Atwood

• good
• mother
• repressive

I’m probably just as good a mother as the next repressed, obsessive-compulsive paranoiac. Anne Lamott

• beautiful
• star
• forever

Stars are beautiful, but they may not take part in anything, they must just look on forever. J. M. Barrie

• together
• wellness
• feeling

Do you know what it's like to love someone so much, that you can't see yourself without picturing her? Or what it's like to touch someone, and feel like you've come home? What we had wasn't about sex, or about being with someone just to show off what you've got, the way it was for other kids our age. We were, well, meant to be together. Some people spend their whole lives looking for that one person. I was lucky enough to have her all along. Jodi Picoult

• mother
• time
• him

But how will I get out?" And all at once the door was open--and there was Seldon and behind him his mother. "How'd you do that?" I said. "I opened the door," he said. "But how?" He shrugged. "I pushed. I just pushed. It was open all the time." And that was when I began to bawl and Mrs. Wishnow took me in her arms and said, "That's okay. Things like this happen. They can happen to anyone. Philip Roth

• money
• character
• bee

A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees. Kurt Vonnegut

• learning
• experience
• else

Learning is experience. Everything else is just information. Albert Einstein

• leaving
• old man
• manly

To me, the summer wind in the Midwest is one of the most melancholy things in all life. It comes from so far away and blows so gently and yet so relentlessly; it rustles the leaves and the branches of the maple trees in a sort of symphony of sadness, and it doesn't pass on and leave them still. It just keeps coming, like the infinite flow of Old Man River. You could -- and you do -- wear out your lifetime on the dusty plains with that wind of futility blowing in your face. And when you are... Ernie Pyle