Thomas Carlyle Quotes

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

Transformation, liberation and celebration are the themes of all my novels.

My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

Ultimately what I end up writing about is helplessness and the flipside of that, empowerment.

There's a victory in letting go of your expectations.

This is a beautiful life we lead in spite of whatever things come against us or whatever team loses or wins.

I want to tell everyone that no matter what's keeping them from being their authentic self to hold on to the hope that there will be an end to that road. There will be a life where they can live their true self.

The state of Alabama can take my freedom, the state of Alabama can take my future, but the state of Alabama cannot take my joy.

One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Eventually this all passes. The public horrors of today eventually blow away. And, yes, you are changed by the awful wake of reckoning they leave behind. Hopefully in the process you don't lose your ability to throw your arms in the air again and spin in wild abandon. That is the ultimate F.U. and - finally - the most beautiful survival tool of all. Don't let them take that away from you.

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final.

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Well, you've got to take the bitter with the better.

When I was 25, I believed I could change the world. At 41, I have come to the realization that I cannot change my wife, my church, or my kids, to say nothing of the world. Try as I might, I have not been able to manufacture outcomes the way I thought I could, either in my own life or other people's.

Freedom can reside only in a point of view, a way of looking upon the system of necessity.Surely this is the one freedom that we may attain to: not to be released from physical reality, but to understand reality and ourselves as part of it, and so be reconciled to what we are.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

We win half the battle when we make up our minds to take the world as we find it including the thorns.

Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

There's a way out of every situation.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

When we have accepted the worst, we have nothing more to lose. And that automatically means we have everything to gain.

It's just life, so keep dancing through.

When you can look a thing dead in the eye, acknowledge that it exists, call it exactly what it is, and decide what role it will take in your life then, my Beloved, you have taken the first step toward your freedom.

Strideth over all mountains, and laugheth at all tragedies