“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you're worthy of the trip.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only when we forget about our problems and help others forget theirs that we realize how good we really have it.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“When you choose the path, you choose the destination.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“Sometimes our strengths are also our weaknesses. Sometimes to be strong you have to first be weak. You have to share your burdens; you have to lean on other people while you face your problems and yourself.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“Everyone needs a place where they can go to just ponder for a while. Silence is important; it's the only time you can hear the whispering of truth.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“You can either complain about how hard your life is, or you can realize that only you are responsible for it.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“God thank you for everything you've given us. For the time we have together. And for the miracle of Christmas. Thank you for the Atonement, the chance to start all over again. Help us to always remember who we are and to trust that we are worthy to make it through our storms. Amen>”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“I collapsed to my knees and looked up at the predawn sky. "I hate you," I said softly.
"I love you," the voice whispered back.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“If you treat an animal right, they don't run away. They're not like us. They run away from people they don't trust; most times we run away from ourselves.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“I considered him and felt the now familiar crush of emotions weighing on me, begging me to cave in and fall into his strong arms.
I pushed back with every ounce of energy I had left.
Every time I trusted someone, I got hurt. Every time I let go, I was let down. Not again. I would drive them away before the left.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“The government," he told me one night, "is there to act as a safety net, not a candy machine.”
― Glenn Beck, quote from The Christmas Sweater
“There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.”
― Michael Crichton, quote from Prey
“Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves.”
― James Allen, quote from As a Man Thinketh
“Many a happy hour she had spent planning for something nice for him. Something fine and rare and sterling—something”
― O. Henry, quote from The Gift of the Magi
“Men, she thought, were one of the world's few sure comforts, like a fire on a cold October night, like cocoa, like broken-in-slippers. Their clumsy affections, their bristly faces, and their willingness to do what needed to be done - cook an omelette, change lightbulbs, make with hugging - sometimes almost made being a woman fun.”
― Joe Hill, quote from NOS4A2
“Academics were not intellectuals; they were not curious, they built their stolid tents of specialized knowledge and stayed securely in them.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, quote from Americanah
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