“I think of life as very much like a game. The one who created it gave us the rules by which it is to be played, rules designed to help us win, rules to help us be happy. The problem is many times we choose to play by our own rules, and then we’re at a loss to understand why we never win.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
“Because, my dear, God is love. Not just maternal or fraternal love but romantic love as well. Song of Solomon was written to show what the love between a husband and a wife should be, but it was also written to emulate the depth of feeling and love God has for each of us. As intense and wonderful as this young man’s kiss made you feel, more so is the passion and love God has for you. No, your feelings aren’t wrong, but perhaps the timing is.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
“For years he had possessed her dreams, but she'd been the master of those dreams. Now, he possessed her memory, and there was nothing she could do about it.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
“It was not a day to remember; it was a day to forget...the memory of it could not pass soon enough.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
“The warmth was pushed aside, as always, by the cold grip of reality.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
“After years of pining over something she could never have, she would choose to embrace the cold comfort of reality instead. No more daydreams of his smile, no more journal entries with his name, no more prayers for the impossible. She would not allow it.”
― Julie Lessman, quote from A Passion Most Pure
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“El poder de la autenticidad El regalo más importante que podemos hacernos a nosotros mismos es el compromiso de vivir nuestra auténtica vida. Ser sinceros con nosotros mismos, no obstante, no es una tarea fácil. Debemos romper con aquello con lo que la sociedad intenta seducirnos y vivir la vida según nuestros principios, con nuestros propios valores y en consonancia con nuestros sueños primigenios. Debemos despertar a ese yo oculto; explorar los anhelos más profundos, más invisibles, las habilidades y debilidades que nos hacen ser quienes somos. Debemos entender dónde hemos estado y adónde vamos. Cada decisión que tomemos, cada paso que demos, debe estar investido de ese compromiso de vivir la vida siendo sinceros y coherentes con nuestro yo auténtico y solo con ese yo. Y, a medida que avancemos, tendremos la certeza de experimentar una fortuna que irá más allá de cualquier riqueza jamás imaginada.”
― Robin S. Sharma, quote from The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
“2½ cups crushed graham cracker crumbs 1 cup melted Grade A butter 1 cup peanut butter 2½ cups powdered sugar 1 cup milk chocolate chips with 1 teaspoon Grade A butter Mix together the graham cracker crumbs, melted butter, peanut butter, and sugar. Pat into a greased 9-by-13-inch pan. Melt the chips and butter and spread them on top of the bars. Set in the refrigerator until firm. Cut into bars. •”
― J. Ryan Stradal, quote from Kitchens of the Great Midwest
“I found the adage about time healing all wounds to be false: grief doesn’t fade. Grief scabs over like my scars and pulls into new, painful configurations as it knits. It hurts in new ways. We are never free from grief. We are never free from the feeling that we have failed. We are never free from self-loathing. We are never free from the feeling that something is wrong with us, not with the world that made this mess. Death”
― Jesmyn Ward, quote from Men We Reaped
“Even if you are powerless, your words are not”
― Leah Thomas, quote from Because You'll Never Meet Me
“The farmers, who rent out their house so they can stay afloat, and sleep all together in a studio, but spend their days off outside on a picnic blanket, living the lives they want to live. Drew and Melanie, with their two homes and their horses and their love story. And Rene, traveling across the world, painting temporary masterpieces. Even my uncle Pete has something good worked out with Melinda and his day trips and his best friend, my dad, who has a small nice house in San Francisco and a dozen neighborhood vendors who know him by name.
All of these different ways of living. Even Sophie, with her baby in that apartment, with her record store job and her record collection. I imagine her twirling with her baby across her red carpet with Diana Ross crooning, the baby laughing, the two of them getting older in that apartment, eating meals on red vinyl chairs. Walt, too, as pathetic as his situation is, seems happy in his basement, providing entertainment to Fort Bragg's inner circle. All of them, in their own ways, manage to make their lives work.”
― Nina LaCour, quote from The Disenchantments
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