Tamera Alexander Quotes

#1. Forgiveness was a strange gift. One that had to be shared in order to be kept.

Tamera Alexander

#2. We should not expect to have all the blessings of life and none of its trials. It would make this world too delightful a dwelling place, and I fear we would never care to leave it.

Tamera Alexander

#3. It's so easy to criticize your own time, and I see that as a problem, even for myself, as a listener.

Beck

#4. sometimes it's the one thing we've never had, but have wanted for so long, that has the power to disappoint us the most.

Tamera Alexander

#5. The best way to beat somebody is to show them who you are, and to succeed by doin' what they say you can't.

Tamera Alexander

#6. It's not about you. It's not about me. This life that we live, the reason we're here. It's only when we see our lives through eternal eyes that we find true peace or wealth that will last. Real security can only be found in that which can never be taken from you ... in a relationship with God.

Tamera Alexander

#7. I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

Immanuel Kant

#8. Then you'll need to teach him again, until he's learned. Just as I've done with you boys. That's what God does with us, after all. Puts us out into the world where the only real boundary is that of His love. His love either compels us, or restrains us. There is nothing stronger, Danny.

Tamera Alexander

#9. She couldn't help but wonder at the events of recent days, and at how - even in the face of such misfortune, there was so much good,

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#10. Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

Tamera Alexander

#11. Just as hundreds of brushstrokes comprised a finished canvas, people were made up of a lifetime of experiences, both good and bad. And without knowing what someone had endured, it was impossible to truly know them - and accept them - for who they were.

Tamera Alexander

#12. When a trans woman gets called a man, that is an act of violence.

Laverne Cox

#13. Astonishing how tea opens the ears.

Michelle Franklin

#14. But he'd learned long ago that a life lived without risks pretty much wasn't worth living. Life rewarded courage, even when that first step was taken neck-deep in fear.

Tamera Alexander

#15. If there was one thing he knew a little about, it was pursuing a person. And though he wasn't about to give the woman beside him fair warning, Miss Ashford had better be on her guard. Because he planned on doing everything in his power to win not only her trust, but her heart as well.

Tamera Alexander

#16. Let no one define how you se yourself ... save God alone. See yourself through His eyes and His strength, and you'll see who you can be despite being who you are.

Tamera Alexander

#17. I learned long ago, Livvy, that a wife must love her husband's dreams as much as she loves him. Because the two are inseparable. If a wife can't embrace the desires of her husband's heart, he will never become the man he could have been, if only she had.

Tamera Alexander

#18. My books nourish my soul. When I open a cover and begin to read, I go to new places, to worlds I never knew existed. I time travel into the past and up into the distant future

Ann Hite

#19. Reaching deep into the heart of the reader, Cindy Woodsmall pens a beautifully lyrical story in her debut novel When the Heart Cries.

Tamera Alexander

#20. Life is full of risks...that first step of faith was often taken neck-deep in fear.

Tamera Alexander

#21. It's best for a man to be thought a fool instead of opening his mouth and removing all doubt.

Tamera Alexander

#22. I think it's designed to flower open like a Chocolate Orange."
Me and Lesley then had to explain Terry's Chocolate Orange to Nightingale.
"Not unlike a practitioner's hand opening to reveal a werelight," said Nightingale.
"Not unlike at all," I said. Yeah, exactly like that I thought.

Ben Aaronovitch

#23. Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want
when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

Tamera Alexander

#24. For reasons that are not well understood, war's codes are safer for most of us than love's.

David Foster Wallace

#25. Long ago she'd learned that facing reality was inevitable. She could skulk about, trying to avoid it or pretending it wasn't there. But in the end, reality always found her. And its finding her seemed a
harsher blow than if she'd faced the situation straight on from the very start.

Tamera Alexander

#26. It takes an awfully good man ... to beat no man at all. - Tillie

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#27. Adolescence-is it the first time in life we discover that we have something terrible to hide from those who love us?

John Irving

#28. Fences can be prisons, in a way. They're necessary for those incapable of learning restraint, but they diminish life.

Tamera Alexander

#29. Would you paint if you knew you were painting only for Me?

Tamera Alexander