Cross Roads Quotes
"The most pitiable among men is he who turns his dreams into silver and gold." - Khalil Gibran
"Known routines, even though painful at times, at least had their own predictability."
"All was quiet as if the world was holding her breath."
"What had been a living entity, a heart of flesh, became stone."
"Pain, loss, and finally abandonment are each a hard taskmaster, but combined they become a desolation almost unendurable."
"Freedom is an incremental process, so, too, is the encroachment of evil."
"God moves in a mysterious way, his wonders to perform."
"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again." - C. S. Lewis
"I long, as every human being does, to be at home wherever I find myself." - Maya Angelou
"We are only able to move at the speed and in the direction the land itself allows. One must relate to it with honor and reverence and let the land speak its own heart."
"To not live for the land in this way is to join its aggressors, ravagers, users, and benefactors, and then all hope for its healing would be lost."
"You’re talking in metaphor, and I’m losing you somewhere in the translation."
"Because you continue to inhabit and believe your metaphors, you cannot see what is true."
"I am telling you that this living being… is you!"
"Pain may well remind us that we are alive, but love reminds us why we are alive."
"For there to be an ‘I am not,’ there must first be an ‘I am.’"
"Transformation without work and pain, without suffering, without a sense of loss is just an illusion of true change."
"You were created by a community to exist in community, made in the image of a God who has never known anything except community."
"Relationship is at the very heart of who I am."
"Life won! Life continues to win. I am living proof."
"What is to give light must endure the burning."
"Any pang of regret that surfaced throughout the day, he would push back into the closets and corners of his soul where they could be better ignored."
"When she entered she lit up the room, her carriage professional and her personality gregarious."
"Every few minutes he would whisper 'Tay-Ny?' just to check in, and when Tony responded, he was always rewarded with a grin."
"It was difficult enough surviving as a foster child. A foster child who had fallen from grace was magnitudes worse."
"This young man somehow knew that a sweetness lay outside his power to have or hold, and he was sharing this longing with him."
"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."
"In every building torn down there is much that remains that was once true and right and good, and that gets woven into the new."
"God wastes nothing, not even the wrong we have imagined into existence."
"The deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection."
"Everyone is a story. It was Cabby that brought the two of us together; this was a while back, before Lindsay got sick."
"A person isn’t who they are during the last conversation you had with them, they’re who they’ve been throughout your whole relationship." —Rainer Maria Rilke
"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it." —Mark Twain
"One never knows if anything’s a good idea. You just make a choice and go with the flow and see what happens. You only get one day’s worth of grace, so why not spend it extravagantly."
"I am more sure about this than anything I have ever done. It’s the right thing for me, Maggie, I know it is."
"You make a choice and go with the flow and see what happens. You only get one day’s worth of grace, so why not spend it extravagantly."