jaimierae22’s most recent Quotables

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp on life.

We all know that in everything God works for the good of those who love him, whom He has called according to his plan. Romans 8:28. in simple words, bad things in life are needed for the good things to come.

The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it.

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

So many people were shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.

… I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded, not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering it things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen - not only because I see it, but because by it, I see everything else.

If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. ... He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. ... You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

The one who loves the least controls the relationship.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth,"You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole sky.

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you are not going to stay where you are.

Loneliness doesn't exist on any single plane of consciousness. It's generally a low throb, barely audible, like the hum of a Mercedes engine in park, but every so often the demands of the highway call for a burst of acceleration, and the hum becomes a thunderous, elemental roar, and once again you're reminded of what this baby's carrying under the hood.

You have to look at what you have right in front of you, at what it could be, and stop measuring it against what you've lost. I know this to be wise and true, just as I know that pretty much no one can do it.

You know those people who can predict when change is coming in their life? I'm not one of them. Change has a way of just walking up and punching me in the face.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes.

Some day there’ll be a cure for pain, and that’s the day I throw my drugs away

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

Forgiveness has nothing to do with forgetting...A faded memory [cannot] provide an expiation of the past. To forgive, one must remember the past, put it into perspective, and move beyond it. Without remembrance, no wound can be transcended.