“.Ensuring that young people get the right information that will enable them make the right choices is a responsibility all citizens must take seriously”
Source: The Unseen Terrorist
“But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford”
Source: Twice Promised
“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
“And so it is, that if you believe it you can honestly choose what you want to be. But choose carefully, with your intuition, and have the courage to trust your choice! It is vital that we allow our self the privilege of quite space, for it is there we discover the passion that drives us to our heart's desire, to our destiny.”
Source: The Great Run: Conquering the Sleeping Dragon Within: Life's Lessons on the Run
“You have two choices: To live an unconscious life, or to be conscious of your magnificence...”
“Saving You
The darkness takes him over,
the sickness pulls him in;
his eyes—a blown out candle,
I wish to go with him.
Sometimes I see a flicker—
a light that shone from them;
I hold him to me tightly,
before he's gone again.”
Source: Love & Misadventure
“Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.”
“There passed a child of four, a small girl on a footpath over the fields, going home in the evening to Erl. They looked at each other with round eyes.
"Hullo," said the child.
"Hullo, child of men," said the troll.
. . . "What are you?" said the child.
"A troll of Elfland," answered the troll.
"So I thought," said the child.
"Where are you going, child of men?" the troll asked.
"To the houses," the child replied.
"We don't want to go there," said the troll.
"N-no," said the child.
"Come to Elfland," the troll said.
The child thought for a while. Other children had gone, and the elves always sent a changeling in their place, so that nobody quite missed them and nobody really knew. She thought awhile of the wonder and wildness of Elfland, and then of her own house.
"N-no," said the child.
"Why not?" said the troll.
"Mother made a jam roll this morning," said the child. And she walked on gravely home. Had it not been for that chance jam roll she had gone to Elfland.
"Jam!" said the troll contemptuously and thought of the tarns of Elfland, the great lily-leaves lying flat upon their solemn waters, the huge blue lilies towering into the elf-light above the green deep tarns: for jam this child had forsaken them!”
Source: The King of Elfland's Daughter
“She felt trapped, but she didn't have to. The world is wide open and ready, waiting for us to escape this bubble and join it.”
Source: Losing Me, Finding You
“If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule.”
Source: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman