Reiland Quotes

#1. If you want to get ahead, leading up is much better than kissing up. - DAN REILAND

John C. Maxwell

#2. The only way to see the light at the end of the tunnel was to crawl through the mud in darkness.

Rachel Reiland

#3. I was getting better at controlling my emotional reactions. When feelings overwhelmed me, I learned to thwart the burning temptation to act self-destructively and to sit with the feelings instead.

Rachel Reiland

#4. You cannot have a desire to surrender because that's non-surrender. Surrender arises spontaneously sometimes in people who don't even have a word for it. And I know that openness is there in many people.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. The list of things to be grateful for is so long, if I really give thanks I don't have time to complain about anything.

Dan Reiland

#6. Mental illness, depression, was indeed an illness with a physiological basis. It wasn't a sign of failure. I wasn't a failure.

Rachel Reiland

#7. The thing I knew I needed to let go of most was anger. I would have to take on faith that something else would come in its place.

Rachel Reiland

#8. If my mind began to wander again, I found a way to distract it. Stay busy. Get drunk. Get laid. Anything to escape the chamber of torture that was my mind.

Rachel Reiland

#9. You really have no idea whether or not what you're writing is funny. In stand-up and sketch comedy, you know right away and you can make your changes accordingly.

Michael Showalter

#10. Do you have a boyfriend?" he asked.
"Huh?" Why would he ask her that?
"A big, mean-as-fuck, jealous guy who will break my neck with his bare hands if he knew I touched you?"
Toni shook her head.
"A raging case of herpes?"
"Of course not!"
"You're not making this any easier on me.

Olivia Cunning

#11. Love is a curious mixture of opposites, a blend of extreme selfishness and total devotion. A paradox! Besides which, love, everybody is always talking about love, love, but love isn't something you choose, you catch it like a disease, you get trapped in it, like a disaster.

Amos Oz

#12. I was the one who was fighting for survival and I was also the murderer within.

Rachel Reiland

#13. Former pleasures meant nothing to me anymore. Life was a series of tasks to be endured, and even the simplest ones were painfully arduous. It took everything I could muster to cook a meal, wash the dishes, or do the laundry. My income was virtually nonexistent. My occupation was therapy.

Rachel Reiland

#14. When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that.

Barack Obama

#15. Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Samuel Johnson

#16. One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world.

David O. Russell

#17. I've always been fascinated by the human body, but you can become quite morbid and paranoid if you think too much.

Ellie Goulding

#18. But the power to rule meant the power to destroy - that was the darkness at the heart of ruling. It meant you had the power of life and death over people, and because you had the power, you thought that meant you had the right.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#19. Whom he had saved from a life of excessive freedom

Louise Erdrich

#20. If the borderline rage that had fueled me for so long was torn down and taken away, would there be anything left? Or would it take the life, the spirit, right out of me? I was daunted by the prospect of letting go without a clear idea of what would emerge in the old framework's place.

Rachel Reiland

#21. A few of the researchers seem to think that once a borderline, always a borderline. That you can't cure it - you can only control it. That a lot of people are destined to live their lives in and out of institutions, that there isn't much hope.

Rachel Reiland

#22. One of the reasons teenagers rebel is to test the limits to make sure they are still there. But for you it was particularly difficult. And something you never really got over.

Rachel Reiland

#23. I had only played five games in my senior year in high school. I was not large enough. Hell, when I graduated, I was about five foot four and weighed 120 pounds. I didn't go with the Dodgers until spring training of 1940 and I weighed all of 155 pounds soaking wet.

Pee Wee Reese

#24. Love is infinitely more powerful than hate,

Rachel Reiland

#25. Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.

Rachel Reiland

#26. Most important, the reason I wrote this book is to serve as proof that miracles do happen, that love can and does heal wounds, that there is hope for those with the courage and fortitude to seek healing.

Rachel Reiland

#27. I didn't understand why I could not control myself despite my best intentions.

Rachel Reiland

#28. Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

Deepak Chopra

#29. Death scared me because I feared nothingness. If I had been nothing before I was born, then I could imagine that I would be nothing once I died.

Rachel Reiland

#30. Words can bruise and break hearts, and minds as well. There are no black and blue marks, no broken bones to put in plaster casts, and therefore no prison bars for the offender.

Marlene Dietrich

#31. As much as I loathed pain, progress did not seem to come without it.

Rachel Reiland