“Pain or perspective, that's the choice.'
. . .
You choose pain - you choose to fight it, deny it, bury it - then yes, the choice is always hard. But you choose perspective - embrace your history, give it credit for the better person it can make you, scars and all - the choice gets easier every time.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“The pain was so deep and so raw. There were days I would have died just to forget. The problem was, I couldn't figure out how to get her out of my mind. How do you kill that kind of pain?”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“I've already said you can't take anything from me that I wouldn't freely give you.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“God is with me. Jesus is near. The Spirit is greater than my fear.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“And he wants you to keep that at the front of your mind? He wants you to stay focused on the darkest seasons of your life? How could that possibly do any good?'
. . .
He wants you to remember who delivered you from that time. That's the point of holding on to memory: delivery, not darkness.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she was wrong. Worthless. Undeserving.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“It's rude to run off a guest.
It's rude to wear out your welcome.”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
“Pain was not God’s plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not part of the plan.” I”
― Ted Dekker, quote from Kiss
Ted Dekker
Born place: in Indonesia
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“Posiblemente quiero que muera porque ya no lo quiero; ya no le necesito más. De forma deliberada me involucré contigo (...) sin mostrar ninguna preocupación por terceros, ni siquiera por ti, para conseguirte, porque eres un buen material como marido y yo necesito un marido nuevo ahora que he agotado al anterior. Y si te quedas conmigo, te trataré igual que lo traté a él. Volverá a ser lo mismo otra vez.”
― Philip K. Dick, quote from Confessions of a Crap Artist
“It is as great an error to speak well of a worthless man as to speak ill of a good man.”
― Leonardo da Vinci, quote from Leonardo's Notebooks
“Sometimes I get lost in the rhythm of the paddling. I even count the strokes it takes to get me to a point of land, The play of the muscles in one's arms and shoulders, and the feel of palm against worn wood, are preferable to glancing at a speedometer”
― quote from One Man's Wilderness: An Alaskan Odyssey
“Nothing like poetry when you lie awake at night. It keeps the old brain limber. It washes away the mud and sand that keeps on blocking up the bends.
Like waves to make the pebbles dance on my old floors. And turn them into rubies and jacinths; or at any rate, good imitations.”
― Joyce Cary, quote from The Horse's Mouth
“Many people are partial to the notion that . . . all writers are somehow mere vessels for Truth and Beauty when they compose. That we are not really in control. This is a variation on that twee little fable that writers like to pass off on gullible readers, that a character can develop a will of his own and 'take over a book.' This makes writing sound supernatural and mysterious, like possession by faeries. The reality tends to involve a spare room, a pirated copy of MS Word, and a table bought on sale at Target. A character can no more take over your novel than an eggplant and a jar of cumin can take over your kitchen.”
― Paul Collins, quote from Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books
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