Crisner Quotes

#1. Whatever hurt you felt is not an excuse to inflict the same on others.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#2. One day, he and William had been speeding toward each other; the next, careening away. But why?

Garth Risk Hallberg

#3. We lose our soul, to find our life.

Joanne Crisner

#4. The best that can be done is to love for the sake of it, and to keep sorrow company.

Francis Spufford

#5. The stuff that?s most important to me in life can?t be bought ? it can only be earned.

Steve Pavlina

#6. I have no illusions about being a genius musician. I pride myself on being a soldier, a warrior for jazz. I trained a lot of young people, and I've learned my lessons well. I'd like to keep the flame burning.

Phil Woods

#7. Life is a mere reflection of how you see it.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#8. The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything.

Mark Twain

#9. Others will notice you, Joclyn. But, you can't let it change who you are deep inside. Have fun for you, not the people around you.

Rebecca Ethington

#10. No declaration changes the existence of God

Sunday Adelaja

#11. Love always turns out to be worth everything.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#12. Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way.

Anthony Liccione

#13. I have searched far and wide ... he whispered, and have finally found the one my heart desires.

Jody Hedlund

#14. Ultimately, who you are as a person will define who you are as a professional.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#15. Giving up also takes courage.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#16. It's such a wonder how people can diminish the worth of your relationship.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#17. Climb up the ladder one step at a time, moving gracefully to the rhythm of your own heart.
- from the essay, On The Side of Time, Amazed.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#18. I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now.

George Eliot

#19. The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you're better than them is the same minute you've proven you're worse.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#20. Sometimes people outside of your people act more like your people than your people.

Curtis Tyrone Jones

#21. Sometimes, the intent is good enough when the action seems impossible.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#22. After everything, what we have left is not what we make to have a living but what we make out of living.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#23. I believe that as soon as people want peace in the world they can have it. The trouble is they are not aware they can get it.

John Lennon

#24. In the middle of this journey, we lose a bit of ourselves. We do not know where we are or where we're headed. We look for directions, seek for guidance, and if we're lucky, we find it without too much time lost. And if we're truly lucky, we gain our whole selves back, with an ounce of wisdom on top.

Joanne Crisner

#25. Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.

Orson Scott Card

#26. No matter how harsh or negative your thoughts are, there is always a right way of saying them.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga

#27. It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.

Joanne Crisner Alcayaga