Beckum Law Quotes

#1. I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.

Flannery O'Connor

#2. In trying to please other people, we find ourselves misdirected toward what lies outside our sphere of influence. In doing so, we lose our hold on our lifes purpose.

Epictetus

#3. They sometimes behave like the Delphic oracle that told King Croesus that if he crossed the Halys River he would destroy a large kingdom. It was only after he had been completely defeated in battle after the crossing that he discovered that the kingdom meant by the oracle was his own.

C. G. Jung

#4. If I can change, anybody can change.

Jane Fonda

#5. I don't think I've arrived. I think I'm continuing to get there, getting closer and closer to where I want to go. But I'm not there yet.

Russell Wilson

#6. When a woman says, 'I have nothing to wear!', what she really means is, 'There's nothing here for who I'm supposed to be today.

Caitlin Moran

#7. You can't help getting older, but you can help yourself from becoming old and infirm, in mind as well as body.

Joan Collins

#8. The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

Christopher Morley

#9. Change the problem by changing your mind.

Ken MacLeod

#10. An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.

Mark Twain

#11. The door', replied Maimie, 'will always, always be open, and mother will always be waiting at it for me.

J.M. Barrie