Don’t be too quick to leave the tree you are highly convinced of its future sweet fruits and comforting shade just because you see its present fruitlessness. Just sit under it and endure the scorching sun, one day, its branches will give you comfort and its fruits will give you smiles and nourish your body! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
All I was trying to do when they caught me was bury my mother in an unmarked grave (S. L. Viehl)
God has the most incredible, unimaginable, inconceivable, and indescribable intention and design for your life (Pedro Okoro, Crushing the Devil: Your Guide to Spiritual Warfare and Victory in Christ)
Fire is easy to work with if you keep your mind clear, but pain . . . pain fights back. Pain is alive. Pain is the enemy (Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight)
Of course mothers and daughters with strong personalities might see the world from very different points of view (Katherine Howe, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane)
There are signs, I think, that people aren’t satisfied by consumerism: that people resent the fact that the most moral decision in their lives is choosing what colour their next car will be (J. G. Ballard)
Slavery is a memory of something we cannot remember, and yet we cannot forget (Bill T. Jones)
I can’t get her out of my head – JJM.
No map to help us find the tranquil flat lands, clearings calm, fields without mean fences. Rolling down the other side of life our compass is the sureness of ourselves. Time may make us rugged, ragged round the edges, but know and understand that love is still the safest place to land. (Rod McKuen)
I don’t want the cheese. I just want to get out of the trap. (Spanish Proverb)