M J Ryan Quotes

#1. I fell in love with Ryan, you got jealous, then I fell out of love with him because he seemed needy, you tied me up, I got half a chubby because it reminded me of Octavio, and now you have a date with Ryan. Oops. I mean Todd. Gosh, I'm beat. What a long night.

T.J. Klune

#2. And then Knight Ryan Foxheart was announced and the crowd turned toward the Great Doors. They opened and I'm pretty sure choirs of angels were singing and at least fourteen women in the room became spontaneously pregnant because godsdamn.

(From The Lightning-Struck Heart)

T.J. Kline

#3. You okay, Sam?"
"Ha-ha, why wouldn't I be? Everything is peachy! I'm okay. I'm better than okay."
"Okay. I only ask because you haven't stopped staring at me for the last four hours."
"You lie with all your lies!

T.J. Klune

#4. whatever we're doing, healthy or unhealthy, is always a solution to some problem.

M.J. Ryan

#5. Gratitude helps us love well by keeping us focused on the beauty in our relationship and the person we love.

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#6. Finding a positive motivation also engages your emotional brain to work for the change, not against it. Remember, it wants to go toward pleasure. So the more emotionally pleasurable your positive motivation, the more it will help you achieve your goal.

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#7. As you put your children to bed, spend at least three minutes of private time, after books and bathroom and teeth-brushing, and ask them to tell you one thing they did that they appreciate themselves for and one thing someone else did that they are thankful
for. You

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#8. Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.

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#9. Gratitude connects us to others and feeling gratitude allows us to be our best selves. When we are truly grateful, we can count on living the life we want

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#10. We do what we do because it serves some need.

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#11. Whenever we are appreciative, we are filled with a sense of well-being and swept up by the feeling of joy.

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#12. How long has it been since I entered this blackness? Has it been days, months, or years? I'm stuck here with my mind, my thoughts, my memories, and my nightmares.

Shari J. Ryan

#13. As you breathe, say to yourself: Breathing in, I am aware of breathing in. Breathing out, I am aware of breathing out.

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#14. Eating healthy and exercising won't help you if it's only temporary.

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#15. Gratitude is the realization that we have everything we need, at least in this moment.

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#16. Gary's eyes narrowed. "I'm pretty sure I don't like you."
"My world is crumbling," Ryan said. I might have laughed. Because sass.

T.J. Klune

#17. I learned that you don't have to be saddled for life with the mental attitudes you adopted in early childhood. All of us are free to change our minds, and as we change our minds, our experiences will also change.

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#18. Patience is no small, fell-good personal quality. It is at the heart of diplomacy and civility, lawfulness and civil order. Without it, people can't work together and society can't function at all. With it, we create the possibility of peace between people and between nations.

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#19. We hold on so tightly that our hands are unavailable to reach out for the happiness we could gain by letting go.

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#20. The major rule in the American belief system - that anyone can do anything ... is a lie that we have perpetuated, and it fosters mediocrity. Knowing what you're good at and doing even more of it creates excellence.

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#21. In every single moment, we have the choice to be happy or not. No matter what is going on, we can choose to focus on what is right, what is good and whole in ourselves and our lives, and what options we have in any given situation. In other words, we can choose to be happy no matter what.

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#22. Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

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#23. you will greatly increase your chances of success if you stop long enough to get clear on your motivation, understand why you've been doing what you're doing now,

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#24. if you really want it, you'll keep at it. Despite setbacks, interruptions, and sidetracks. No matter how long you get off course, you'll eventually return - if you really want what you say you do.

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#25. We can't wait until everything is OK-with us or with the rest of the world-to feel thankful, or we will never experience joy at all.

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#26. No matter what, I want to experience a sense of peace while talking. As I look out into the audience, Ill remember to breathe and notice that at my core there is peace.

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#27. The right brain is future oriented. It's where our aspirations, our dreams, our longings reside. It's where creativity is born. This is the part of your brain that doesn't care that you haven't done it before - in fact it's energized by newness and bored by routine.

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#28. Gratitude is a feeling of fullness, a recognition of the heart of what we are receiving in this moment.

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#29. Like so many other positive acts, it turns out that hugging boosts our immune system. Plus it just plain feels good! So hug someone today, perhaps a person who seems particularly in need.

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#30. Take a deep breath and think of the three things you are grateful for, right in this moment.

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#31. Because it takes work, often a lot of work and sacrifice, you have to really want to bring something into being.

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#32. Look for the hidden blessings in difficult situations.

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#33. much of life requires waiting and we have a choice to do it happily or miserably.

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#34. As any gardener will tell you, the cycles of nature require patience ... Even a fast-growing vegetable like a radish requires time.

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#35. Gratitude makes us feel bursting with delight, just to remember the gifts we have received. Thus we are doubly blessed when we receive something: for the gift itself and later, in recall, for the miracle of having been given it.

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#36. At each level of gratitude our soul's capacity deepens, starting with contentment to meaningfulness, and finally, to pure joy.

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