I Quotes
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“I've broken an arm before, but no one wanted to shoot me!' Suzie says. 'I mean, when you go to the emergency room I hope to God the doctors don't decide it might cost too much to care for.' -Suzie Schwab co-owner of East Maui Animal Refuge”
“I’ve brought you some things from home,’ I said, gesturing at the bag on the floor. ‘Some clothes and books – things like that.’
‘Books – great! That’ll make things easier. You know I can’t read worth a damn right now!’
‘There’s also some music. Schubert’s fifth, Mendelssohn’s third, Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, Mahler’s fourth—’
‘I would have preferred his sixth.’
‘You’re not well enough for his sixth'.”
“I've brought you something to wear over your dress and I do not want to hear your views on killing animals to provide coats for the wealthy. I have it on the best authority that these ermine committed suicide.”
Source: Torn Asunder
“I've built a cage around myself called "independence" and "living my best life" and "not letting anyone control me," and now I'm suffocating inside it.”
Source: You Are Like a Flame to Me: The Algorithm of Letting Go
“I've ceased to smile long ago,
The bitter winds now chill my lips,
Another hope was just let go,
Another song was added since.
Against my will, I'll cede this song
To people's laughter and offense,
Because love's silence for the soul
Is too unbearably immense.”
Source: White Flock
“I’ve certainly scolded myself for an hour or more blown on a flow of dog videos, family updates, shallow political expressions, and pleas for funds. Every one of those items has some value to me, just as each potato chip delivers some pleasure, some flavor. I savor them. But I lose count. And upon reflection I feel just horrible. But the thing is, snack foods are explicitly designed to make us behave this way. Food producers have studied, mastered, and tinkered with the ratios of salt, sugar, and fat to keep us coming back, even when the taste of much of the food is unremarkable. Facebook is designed to be habit-forming in just the same way.”
Source: Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy
“I’ve challenged myself to develop a better understanding of offensive views so that I can learn how to combat them more effectively.”
“I’ve changed my definition of satisfaction and success to incorporate the process. After all, that’s where I spend 99 per cent of my time.”
Source: Buying Happiness: Learn to Invest Your Time and Money Better
“I’ve changed my mind,” Catarina announced. She put her arm around Alec’s neck and gave him a kiss on the cheek. “I like you.” “Oh,” said Alec, looking baffled. “Thanks.” “Please take care of Magnus,” Catarina added. “I try,” said Alec. Catarina gave Magnus a delighted look over Alec’s shoulder. “At last,” she murmured. “A keeper.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“I’ve changed my mind,” Catarina announced. She put her arm around Alec’s neck and gave him a kiss on the cheek. “I like you.”
“Oh,” said Alec, looking baffled. “Thanks.”
“Please take care of Magnus,” Catarina added.
“I try,” said Alec.
Catarina gave Magnus a delighted look over Alec’s shoulder. “At last,” she murmured. “A keeper.”
“Can we get out of the collapsing building now?” said Magnus crossly, though he was secretly pleased.”
Source: The Red Scrolls of Magic
“I've changed my mind. I don't want to be a squirrel any more. I'd rather be a bird!”
Source: Moonrise
“I've changed my mind. Stop inadequately playing human," I say. "Drop her hand and step away. Take a very big step.”
Source: The Falconer
“I've changed. She'd lost her magenta freckles and the blue pigtails years ago, and she'd gained an advanced degree in library studies and a host of antisocial tendencies.”
Source: The Spellshop
“I've chosen fear over faith more times than I can count,' she admitted. 'And every time I did, I ended up with regrets.”
Source: More Than Words Can Say
“I've climbed up here holding the hilt of time's sword by driving it into my tender heart.”
“I’ve come close enough a few times to know there’s no good way to go. Some ways are better than others, of course, but however it happens, the end result will always be the same. I guess all you can do is try to be happy and make the most of your days, so when the time comes, the people you leave behind can rest happy knowing you lived your best life.”
Source: A Matter of Life and Death
“I've come down from the mountains, with an ass-full of specimens...”
“I've come down in the world. I've slid to a place where the ceiling is low and there isn't much room for me to move.Most of the time I'm good. I accepted my sentence and do not brood or look back. But sometimes a shift makes me remember. Routine is ruffled and a new start makes me suddenly conscious of what I've become -”
Source: Minaret
“I've come home to you."
"H-home...to me?"
"I knew it," Aunt Thea said. "It's him."
The strange man nodded. "It's me."
It's who?" Maddie blurted out.
..."Don't you know me, mo chridhe?”
Source: When a Scot Ties the Knot
“I’ve come that you may have life and have it more abundantly.” ~The words of Jesus
I believe that the pursuit of sensuality is the most eminent proof of having an abundant life you’ll ever have, all else is chasing the wind.”
“I've come to a firm conclusion that having peace in this world is having everything. We are called to a life of peace.”
Source: The Greatest Proposal
“I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle.”
Source: The Yellow Birds
“I’ve come to ask my questions. The ones my dead girl left inside me.
Is it my fault.
What happened to you.
Are you happy.
What do you want from me.”
Source: The Small Backs of Children
“I've come to believe in my bones that children - especially children in poverty - are desperate for an education to help them discover a sense of meaning and purpose. Yet, we have decided to narrow our focus to academic achievement, which creates an unhealthy fixation on grades as a sole indicator of self-worth.”
Source: Think Like Socrates: Using Questions to Invite Wonder and Empathy Into the Classroom, Grades 4-12
“I've come to believe people enter our lives as gifts, sometimes wrapped in joy, sometimes sorrow. Each day, I try to unwrap the gifts life has brought to me—even the difficult ones. —Eli, The Potter Story
Eli never preaches. He unwraps, one day at a time.”
“I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living in me and now I enjoy ever bit of my life and hope best for rest...
something beyond love
lines from Love Vs Destiny...”
“I've come to believe that at different times our lives we are drawn to certain people for various reasons, mainly because that version of ourselves is connected to that version of them at that particular time. If you stick at it, work at it, you can grow in different directions together. Sometimes you get pulled apart, but I believe there is the right person, the one, for all the different versions of yourself. Gabriel and I lived in the now. Gerry and I aimed for forever. We got a fraction of forever. And an enjoyable now and a fraction of forever is always better than doing nothing.”
Source: Postscript
“I've come to believe that every form of love we experience on earth, no matter how intense, is merely a drop in the ocean of love God created you and me to experience. We can't get enough of love because ours always falls short of what we crave.”
Source: Imagine Heaven: Near-Death Experiences, God's Promises, and the Exhilarating Future That Awaits You
“I've come to believe that love is actually the weirdest monster out there. And if you think love doesn't rip people to bloody shreds - you're dead wrong!”
Source: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, Vol. 1
“I’ve come to believe that the true splendor of roses shine through their reflection in the eyes of our loved ones. That is why we give roses to people we love; to show them the reflection of beauty and splendor of love in our own eyes, as we see it in their eyes”
Source: Roses in the Rainbow
“I've come to believe that there exists in the universe something I call "The Physics of The Quest" — a force of nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity or momentum. And the rule of Quest Physics maybe goes like this: "If you are brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting (which can be anything from your house to your bitter old resentments) and set out on a truth-seeking journey (either externally or internally), and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue, and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher, and if you are prepared – most of all – to face (and forgive) some very difficult realities about yourself... then truth will not be withheld from you." Or so I've come to believe.”
Source: Eat, Pray, Love
“I’ve come to believe that wise people don’t tell us what to do; they start by witnessing our story. They take the anecdotes, rationalizations, and episodes we tell, and see us in a noble struggle. They see the way we’re navigating the dialectics of life—intimacy versus independence, control versus uncertainty— and understand that our current self is just where we are right now, part of a long continuum of growth.
The really good confidants—the people we go to when we are troubled—are more like coaches than philosopher-kings. They take in your story, accept it, but push you to clarify what it is you really want, or to name the baggage you left out of your clean tale. They ask you to probe into what is really bothering you, to search for the deeper problem underneath the convenient surface problem you’ve come to them for help about. Wise people don’t tell you what to do; they help you process your own thoughts and emotions. They enter with you into your process of meaning-making and then help you expand it, push it along. All choice involves loss: If you take this job, you don’t take that one. Much of life involves reconciling opposites: I want to be attached, but I also want to be free. Wise people create a safe space where you can navigate the ambiguities and contradictions we all wrestle with. They prod and lure you along until your own obvious solution emerges into view.
Their essential gift is receptivity, the capacity to receive what you are sending. This is not a passive skill. The wise person is not just keeping her ears open. She is creating an atmosphere of hospitality, an atmosphere in which people are encouraged to set aside their fear of showing weakness, their fear of confronting themselves. She is creating an atmosphere in which people swap stories, trade confidences. In this atmosphere people are free to be themselves, encouraged to be honest with themselves.”
Source: How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
“I've come to feel downright uneasy with people who can't say no. What if they yes you to death and then secretly hate you for it? If they never say no, how can you trust their yes? Besides, no makes room for yes, and who doesn't want more room for that?”
Source: Tell Me More: Stories About the 12 Hardest Things I'm Learning to Say
“I’ve come to find that traveling the multiverse produces the same effect as a gnarly hangover induced by tequila, very distinct from one brought on by wine or whiskey. I have some experience with the former, more with the latter”
Source: The Infinite-Infinite
“I've come to gamble."
The old man's mouth twitched. He put down his shish kebab and leaned toward Percy. "A gamble...how interesting. Information in exchange for the harpy? Winner take all?"
"No," Percy said. "The harpy isn't part of the deal."
Phineas laughed. "Really? Perhaps you don't understand her value."
"She's a person," Percy said. "She isn't for sale.”
Source: The Son of Neptune
“I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are.”
Source: The Gift
“I’ve come to learn and understand from this experience that book writing is a dynamic process, fraught with its own challenges and rewards. Approaching it demands a degree of flow and ease, two qualities that I oftentimes don’t prioritize or respect.”
Source: Compositions of Black Joy: A Visual Chronicle of the Philadelphia Juneteenth Festival
“I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone.”
“I've come to learn that no matter the road you're traveling on nor how difficult it may be, it will always lead you to where you're supposed to go and to the people you're supposed to meet.”
“I've come to realize my market gig is like therapy for me. I've always loved being surrounded by food, but what I have come to cherish most at these markets is the sense of community. I know Frank the cheese guy and Barbara the mushroom lady. I swap muffins for raspberry jam with Josie at Jefferson Family Farms and ciabatta for apples with Maggie and Drew at Broad Tree Orchards. They've started to accept me as one of their own, at a time when I could use the company.”
Source: A Second Bite at the Apple
“I've come to realize that a fear of accountability is why white people say things like 'I don't see color' and 'Why does everything have to be about race?' Because to see my color, to see my culture, to see my race, would also mean taking responsibility for how white people have historically treated people my color, with my culture, from my race.”
Source: The Black Friend: On Being a Better White Person
“I've come to realize that life is neither a battle nor a game to be won, it is a game nonetheless, but to be played... enjoyed. There are neither winners nor losers... just players--and what's great is that you can choose who to play with”
“I’ve come to realize that life is not merely physical—it is deeply spiritual. Every moment, every experience, every encounter carries roots in the unseen.”
— A Life Written Before Time”
“I've come to realize that love is tragic, somewhere down the line it's inevitable. Fight for it.”
“I've come to realize that sometimes, what you love most is what you have to fight the hardest to keep.”
Source: Wanderlove
“I've come to realize that you can fight a lot of things in life, but you can't help who you love. You can't change who your heart chooses. I'm afraid that very fact will be the greatest tragedy of my life.”
Source: The Last Camellia
“I’ve come to realize the pleasures of being a nothing-to-lose, take-no-shit older woman; of looking at what once seemed to be outer limits but turned out to be just road signs.”
Source: Doing Sixty & Seventy
“I’ve come to realize the power of reflection, the kind that comes only from contemplation. Synchronizing ourselves with the awe-inspiring environment around us is indeed a tremendous feat that, at some point or another, we must all undergo, alone yet together.”
Source: Nature's 1st Gem Is Green
“I’ve come to see grief as a both/and experience. April reflects this: it’s both a beautiful time as spring emerges and it has a weight to it from the reminder that another year has passed without my closest friend.”
“I've come to suspect that whenever any ability is difficult to learn and rarely performed well, it's probably because contraries are called for - patting the head and rubbing the belly. Thus, good writing is hard because it means trying to be creative and critical; good teaching is hard because it means trying to be ally and adversary of students; good evaluation is hard because it means trying to be subjective and objective; good intelligence is rare because it means trying to be intuitive and logical.”
Source: Embracing contraries: explorations in learning and teaching