“Forgiveness must be initiated before life can begin.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Change: How much do you want it? Change: How much do you need it?”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Pure happiness and peace are at their peak when your body is in harmony with itself.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Our perceptions are influenced by our surroundings.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Are you living in the moment?”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Are you seeking to be offended?”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Love is an unconditional state of being.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Happiness is a choice and a state of mind.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Life can throw curve balls of discouragement...”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Happiness is not giddiness or some overly inflated sense of being.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
“Real happiness provides you the confidence that you never thought was obtainable.”
― Asa Don Brown, quote from Waiting to Live
Asa Don Brown
Born place: in Tulsa, Oklahoma, The United States
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“I stared at him. "Did you just call me an abomination?
Silas looked me up and down. "Yes. Yes, I did.”
― Andrea Cremer, quote from Wolfsbane
“The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.”
― Frank Herbert, quote from God Emperor of Dune
“Xenial' is a word which refers to the giving of gifts to strangers. . . . I know that having a good vocabulary doesn't guarantee that I'm a good person. . . . But it does mean I've read a great deal. And in my experience, well-read people are less likely to be evil.”
― Lemony Snicket, quote from The Slippery Slope
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the other attributes of Heaven you could have for a song. Next she lost her belief in the sincerity of those about her. She secretly refused to believe that anyone (herself excepted) loved anyone. All families lived in a wasteful atmosphere of custom and kissed one another with secret indifference. She saw that the people of this world moved about in an armor of egotism, drunk with self-gazing, athirst for compliments, hearing little of what was said to them, unmoved by the accidents that befell their closest friends, in dread of all appeals that might interrupt their long communion with their own desires. These were the sons and daughters of Adam from Cathay to Peru. And when on the balcony her thoughts reached this turn, her mouth would contract with shame for she knew that she too sinned and that though her love for her daughter was vast enough to include all the colors of love, it was not without a shade of tyranny: she loved her daughter not for her daughter's sake, but for her own. She longed to free herself from this ignoble bond; but the passion was too fierce to cope with.”
― Thornton Wilder, quote from The Bridge of San Luis Rey
“It is easy to let up on the spiritual program of action and rest on our laurels. We are headed for trouble if we do, for alcohol is a subtle foe. We are not cured of alcoholism. What we really have is a daily reprieve contingent on the maintenance of our spiritual condition. Every day is a day when we must carry the vision of God’s will into all of our activities. “How can I best serve Thee—Thy will (not mine) be done.” These are thoughts which must go with us constantly. We can exercise our will power along this line all we wish. It is the proper use of the will.”
― quote from Alcoholics Anonymous
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