“On this day, take time to remember those who have fallen. But on every day after, do more; put the freedoms they died for to greater and nobler uses.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Had life not given me reasons to grieve, I would never have known the healing power of a hug.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Misery is a river of tears that whispers my name in a constant hiss.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“The only two words you should ever say to a mirror are “Hello, Beautiful.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The rarest, truest beauty is visible only to the heart.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The most irresistible beauty is the radiant glow from a kind and gentle heart.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Always be good, but be wickedly beautiful.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Kiss a frog with your eyes wide open. If he turns into a prince you won't miss the transformation, but if he doesn't, you won't be fooled by some wishful illusion in your head.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Comparisons are like rigid fingers—eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“I hate you, Edgar. I hate you with all my heart.”
Source: Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
“It is an incapacitating emotion one feels upon hearing the whispered words "I still love you" after deeply hurting that soul.
Forgiveness isn't weakness.
It is power.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You know those little moments when an unexpected act or a spoken word affects your heart with sweet, satiating intensity―a simple gesture that possesses deep, personal meaning beyond what anyone realizes? You know those tender moments? That's God pressing his lips on your forehead and whispering, 'I love you.'”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A person's needs are met, and his appetite subsides. A person's wants are met, and his thirst swells greedily without end.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Have you honestly pondered your individual worth? Consider every lower life form in the world—the animals, plants, fouls and fishes. Consider the land forms and numerous earthly wonders. Consider the countless worlds beyond this planet as well as their stars and galaxies. And then consider yourself. Of all God’s creations, you were formed in His image, resembling the likeness of a God. That’s something to think about.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“The world is full of opinions. But I am not searching for opinions, I'm searching for truths.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Though I love you to the core of my being, so thoroughly that every cell comprising me aches to be near you, I must accept that we can never be together. For our existence parallels the sun and the moon—a temptation in constant, beautiful view, yet if the sun were ever to kiss the moon it would devour the heavenly orb whole. Oh, my darling, if only I were the moon! Then I would dare taste your lips and be happy for my last and final joy! But alas, I am the sun, and I will not venture to destroy the one I love.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Truth is, I’m generally happiest when it’s just me. It’s okay to be madly in love with yourself.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“You didn’t slay a werewolf,” I breathed before repeating the words louder. “You did not slay a werewolf, Thaddeus.”
“Oh, but I did. I took a band of huntsman with me and we tracked one down. A smaller one, mind you, not far from the front gate—”
“You did not!” I contended more strongly. Why would one wolf have separated from the pack? Why outside our walls?
“Yes, Catherine, I did,” he insisted.
I shook my head disbelieving. “You’re not capable—”
“I am so.”
I wanted to cry. I wanted to protest, but to do so meant giving away my knowledge of the truth. Without knowing what else to do or say I changed the subject.
“The fire’s gone out.”
Thaddeus turned his head to check. “You’re right. I’ll see to it.”
Source: The Tarishe Curse
“Humans are forever discontent—always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Life isn’t always kind. It isn’t gentle and loving or sympathetic to the pains and sorrows of humanity. I, however, as an individual in control of my own actions, can be kind and loving, gentle and sympathetic to those around me, and in the process improve what life is for everyone.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“God cries for us in the same way we cry for others. His tears most often spill over for the pain and suffering caused from the mortal misuse of a gift called agency. He will not revoke the gift. It was promised to us for the duration of our time on Earth. But He will hold each one of us accountable in the end for how we applied this power of agency.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons are learned through observation and experience. Perhaps we'd be better off training our youth to be highly observant.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“If you suffer lingering doubts; if the consolation you cling to is ‘it will probably be okay,’ then run the other way because what you’re contemplating is not a good choice.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“I know you would like to blame the world, but the fact is that life is an 'up to you' thing.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“There’s always another option.
There’s always another one.
It’s never only 'this' or 'that,'
The moon or else the sun.
Don’t sigh and choose the greater
Or lesser of two plights.
But look to see the stars beyond
For options vast and bright.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Temptations don't appear nearly as harmful as the roads they lead you down.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It turns out the simplest choices have been far more important in the long run than I ever imagined.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“You made a choice—a single choice.
How neat to think you may have opened the door to a wondrous future without knowing.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Seemingly insignificant choices are like seemingly trivial seeds. Once planted, they root and grow and spread into something tremendous. Imagine the prickly weeds some choices amount to over time and be careful not to plant them.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“God invites while the devil pressures and shoves and bullies. Realize who holds the actual power before you react. You are greater than Satan; God is greater than all.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“What a mother wants is to hold her babies when they’re small and to be held by them once they’ve grown tall. It’s empty arms a mother dreads.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Children harbor a great many doubts and sorrows that could be eased by a loving hug from a parent.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did—a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“A warm feeling fell over the boy. A mix of security and comfort, as if a blanket were wrapping its soft layers around his heart and nuzzling him snuggly. Gavin loved his mother, and he would be forever grateful to his father for protecting her. The whole mystery behind it made him itch with curiosity, however.”
Source: Secrets of a Noble Keykeeper
“Man is dust.
Rue is rain.
Life is mud.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“From the beginning, man could look up at a vast universe dotted by innumerable stars to find every evidence that he was nothing. This evidence only grows stronger as science and technology record an expanse of galaxies filled with planetary solar systems beyond any visible end. Man is but a grain of sand lost on an endless seashore, and yet he believes with conviction in his own greatness. He is either a divine soul intuitively aware of his inherent, limitless potential—or he is a blind fool.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It's not wrong to feel sorry for yourself. Just like it's not wrong to stand in a puddle of water while the rain pours down on your head. But neither is productive, unless you enjoy feeling cold and miserable and soggy while mascara runs down your face.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“While fun is desirable, regret is quite the opposite.”
Source: Eena, The Curse of Wanyaka Cave
“If all of our sins, bad habits, and poor choices were permanently inked into our skin like tattoos, we would all dress quite modestly.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Life is the season for loving and caring,
for laughing and caroling, giving and sharing.
Christmas is meant for the same, people say,
which makes life like Christmastime every day.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Do we ignore the needy
to spite the greedy?
Or share and defend
despite those who pretend?”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You'll be hard-pressed to reach your goals if you don't map out where you're going. Take time to navigate your life.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Hindsight is always easier than the dreadful moment of decision.”
Source: Eena, The Return of a Queen
“The effects of loss are acute, and unique to each individual. Not everyone mourns in the same way, but everyone mourns.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“It isn’t so much life’s problems that challenge us but the emotional turbulence stirred up while trying to deal with them. People possessing the gift of emotional detachment are lucky in that their personal problems seem far less problematic.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Life is a fierce duel with emotions and a slow war with psychology.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year