Melissa > Melissa's Quotes

“Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.”
― Erica Jong, Fear of Flying

“When God creates Eve, he calls her an ezer kenegdo. 'It is not good for the man to be alone, I shall make him [an ezer kenegdo]' (Gen. 2:18 Alter). Hebrew scholar Robert Alter, who has spent years translating the book of Genesis, says that this phrase is 'notoriously difficult to translate.' The various attempts we have in English are "helper" or "companion" or the notorious "help meet." Why are these translations so incredibly wimpy, boring, flat...disappointing? What is a help meet, anyway? What little girl dances through the house singing "One day I shall be a help meet?" Companion? A dog can be a companion. Helper? Sounds like Hamburger Helper. Alter is getting close when he translates it "sustainer beside him"

The word ezer is used only twenty other places in the entire Old Testament. And in every other instance the person being described is God himself, when you need him to come through for you desperately.”
― Stasi Eldredge, Captivating: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul

“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
― Narcotics Anonymous

“The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“In the end, it doesn’t matter how well we have performed or what we have accomplished—a life without heart is not worth living.”
― John Eldredge

“Alone also means available for someone outstanding.”
― Greg Behrendt, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Broken: The Smart Girl's Break-Up Buddy

“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Living unloved is like clipping a bird's wings and removing its ability to fly.”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.”
― William P. Young, The Shack

“When I see you, the World stops. It stops and all that exists for me is you and my eyes staring at you. There's nothing else. No noise, no other people, no thoughts or worries, no yesterday, no tomorrow. The World just stops, and it is a beautiful place, and there is only you.”
― James Frey, A Million Little Pieces

“Worry divides the mind.”
― Max Lucado, Traveling Light: Releasing the Burdens You Were Never Intended to Bear

“A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other...Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever”
― Dave Matthews Band

“What we wait around a lifetime for with one person, we can find in a moment with someone else.”
― Stephanie Klein, Straight Up and Dirty

“Happiness is a warm puppy.”
― Charles M. Schulz

“Happiness does not depend on outward circumstances, but on the state of the heart.”
― J.C. Ryle, A Call to Prayer

“There's not a word yet, for old friends who've just met.”
― Jim Henson, Favorite Songs From Jim Henson's Muppets

“Its easy to make frends if you let pepul laff at you.”
― Daniel Keyes, Flowers for Algernon

“there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone.”
― Nicole Krauss, The History of Love

“Marriage is not an institution. It's a relationship. Like I said I don't create institutions that's an occupation for those who want to play God. So no I'm not too big on religion and not very fond of politics or economics either. And why should I be They are the man-created trinity of terrors that ravages the earth and deceives those I care about. What mental turmoil and anxiety does any human face that is not related to one of those three”
― Wm. Paul Young, The Shack

“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook

“Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
― L.M. Montgomery

“Men trust God by risking rejection. Women trust God by waiting.”
― Carolyn McCulley

“To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.”
― Gregory Hartley, I Can Read You Like A Book: How to Spot the Messages and Emotions People Are Really Sending With Their Body Language

“But he was so great!' Yes, and the people who got on the Titanic thought they were going on a vacation”
― Greg Behrendt

“Bored with the same type of misery over and over and over again.”
― greg behrendt

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.”
― Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

“Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.”
― Coco Chanel