Misty Upham Quotes

#1. Only one thing is necessary in your anguish: bear everything with resignation to the Divine Will; for this will help you to attain your eternal salvation. Hope with a lively faith and you will receive everything from Almighty God.

Gerard Majella

#2. Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

Noam Chomsky

#3. If either man or woman would realize that the full power of personal beauty, it must be by cherishing noble thoughts and hopes and purposes; by having something to do and something to live for that is worthy of humanity, and which, by expanding and symmetry to the body which contains it ...

Misty Upham

#4. I got into musical comedy because of Shakespeare, not because of singing. They needed someone to understudy Richard Burton. I was also going to musical auditions because the agent I had insisted I go to them.

John Cullum

#5. I do not write feelings, emotions i do not write
After that day on love anything i do not write
My silence scream somewhere inside me
These are my Bloody wounds on paper,
words i do not write

Mohammed Zaki Ansari

#6. I have interviewed so many people who are put into nursing homes or hospices and are just waiting to die. It's a very lonely situation to just sit at a window and watch life go by.

Misty Upham

#7. Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

Cecil Murphey

#8. When I talk about losing myself, which I did, it's losing my idea of who I was and my idea of what I was supposed to be doing and the idea of what my value was to God. I lost all of that at least.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#9. My vulnerability is thinking that I am not worth people's time or space at times.

Misty Upham

#10. My friends. They help me so much. I would not be here without my friends.

Misty Upham

#11. Love is no conditions. Love is given, despite hurt or rejection. Love is life and breath and touch. Love is helping someone live.

Misty Upham

#12. We can always hope and pray diligently for a miracle. If, in God's sovereignty, He chooses to accomplish His purposes another way, let it not be that we have not because we asked not (James 4:2) or that we have not because we believed not (Matt. 9:29).

Beth Moore

#13. It is the youngest in the family who tends to the elders to learn about the sacredness of life and the beauty of death.

Misty Upham

#14. Love. Help with no expectations. Destroy selfishness, self ... At the end of our lives, I believe the soul will be asked, "What did you do for your fellow man?"

Misty Upham

#15. Help, love, forgive, and create beauty.

Misty Upham

#16. Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#17. I serve with my art and creativity. That makes me most happy.

Misty Upham