Heartsongs Mattie Quotes

#1. beholders. His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic.

Jonathan Swift

#2. When people leave you, identify why they left and think about what is left

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#3. Confidence without skill is just emptiness.

Erik Weihenmayer

#4. Oh, let what I am keep on existing and ceasing to exist,
and let my obedience align itself with such iron
conditions
that the quaking of deaths and of births doesn't shake
the deep place I want to reserve for myself eternally.

Mark Eisner

#5. I think you're so busy reading between the lines, you're missing the sentence on the page.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#6. Success depends in a very large measure upon individual initiative and exertion, and cannot be achieved except by a dint of hard work.

Anna Pavlova

#7. We play at believing ourselves imortal. We delude oursleves in the appraisal of our own works and in our perpetual misappraisal of the works of others. See you at the Nobel, writers say, as one might say: see you in hell.

Roberto Bolano

#8. I know that this is as close as I'll ever get. He's broken in ways I'm not.

Vikki Wakefield

#9. Families," said Angel, with some feeling. "Can't live with them, can't have them killed without complications.

John Connolly

#10. The first time I heard The Beatles, I cried. It was 'Let it Be'.

James Durbin

#11. This world you think you know? It's hidden ... in shards of reality.

Zechariah Barrett

#12. Perhaps nothing in our society is more needed for those in positions of authority than accountability. Too often those with authority are able (and willing) to surround themselves with people who support their decisions without question.

Larry Burkett

#13. People are fighting over how our heartsongs are different. But they don't need to be the same. That's the beauty. We are a mosaic of gifts. Each of us has our inner beauty no matter how we look.

Mattie Stepanek

#14. If all were rich, gold would be penniless.

Philip James Bailey