Lenore Appelhans Quotes

#1. For so much of my life I felt hated and judged when, ironically, it was probably because I spent so much of my time hating and judging others.

Charlene Carr

#2. Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

Karen Barber

#3. I read as many novels as you do. Maybe more. I'm just not sure I want to write one.

Lenore Appelhans

#4. One stroke of lightning does not have to lead anywhere, but to the next stroke of lightning.

Alice Munro

#5. So many fail because they don't get started - they don't go. They don't overcome inertia. They don't begin.

Ben Stein

#6. ...if it had to be shame, then let it be shame; if it had to be disgrace, then let it be disgrace; if it had to be degradation, then let it be degradation--the worse the better!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#7. Being happy requires that you define your life in your own terms and then throw your whole heart into living your life to the fullest. In a way, happiness requires that you be perfectly selfish in order to develop yourself to a point where you can be unselfish for the rest of your life.

Brian Tracy

#8. I've always sung. I was really into musical theater when I was growing up. As a kid, I listened to Ella Fitzgerald and Nina Simone, actually, on cassette tapes.

Gugu Mbatha-Raw

#9. You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.

Chris Hughes

#10. Yes, I've lost him. But I don't have to lose myself.

Lenore Appelhans

#11. I'm not uptight. I'm conscientious. There's a difference.

Lenore Appelhans

#12. The point is to keep trying new things, meeting new people, visiting new places. Once you settle into a rut, no matter how fun that rut may seem, you stagnate. You might as well be dead.

Lenore Appelhans

#13. Mother's particular devils had remained mysterious to me for decades. So had her past. Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth's direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free.

Mary Karr

#14. The world is not that black and white, Rachel. There are no moral absolutes. It is complex.

Emily Giffin

#15. I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

Stephen Reid