“I said, I prefer the ocean when it's gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.”
Hopeful feeling
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“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there's a tomorrow. Maybe for you there's one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through you fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there's only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”
“Whatever suffering there is in this world,all arises from desiring only myself to be happy.And whatever joy there is in this world,all arises from desiring to share my happiness with everyone.”
“I want to write about people who dream and wait for the night to end, who long for the light so they can hold the ones they love.”
“The child's conquests of independence are the basic steps in what is called his 'natural development'.”
“I never dreamed that in my lifetime my own genome would be sequenced.”
“We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.”
“The fruits of your labors may be reaped two generations from now. Trust, even when you don't see the results.”
“My hope is that the description of God's love in my life will give you the freedom and the courage to discover... God's love in yours.”
“Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.”
“If it doesn't add value, it's waste.”
“No matter what happens, no matter how far you seem to be away from where you want to be, never stop believing that you will somehow make it.”
“So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.”
“We could change the world tomorrow if all the millions of people around the world acted the way they believe.”
“When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.”
“When we build, let us think that we build forever.”
“Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.”
“If you follow your bliss...the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living.”
“Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.”
“When we meet grace, it becomes the fuel of our faith. We pray, we read our Bibles, we worship and we live the purest lifestyle we can because we love a person.”