Tiring But Rewarding Quotes

#1. I wanted to be involved with literature. I certainly wasn't going to be able to write for a living, and I didn't have enough confidence in my talent to think that I should be just doing that. Publishing seemed like fun to me - to be involved with writers. And it did turn out to be.

Jonathan Galassi

#2. Who is my mother, and who are my brothers?" Pointing to his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers ... (Matthew 12:48)

Anonymous

#3. I don't know if it was the excitement that did it, but by the time we started our tiptoe across the icy, rutted skid yard to that shed Priya had quit shivering, but I was trembling like a marriage license in a young man's hand.

Elizabeth Bear

#4. Let a man set his heart only on doing the will of God and he is instantly free. If we understand our first and sole duty to consist of loving God supremely and loving everyone, even our enemies, for God's dear sake, then we can enjoy spiritual tranquility under every circumstance.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

#5. Everyday feels the same and yet I crave sameness.
Part of me wants to run away and be free.
I feel trapped in my life I've created to protect myself.

Tina J. Richardson

#6. Nothing vanishes quite like pain - when pain does vanish, that is. Because most of the time pain never does.

Anne Rice

#7. Death, however long expected, is sudden at the last ...

Mary Jane Holmes

#8. Human beings are compelled to massacre animals unceasingly, because human beings are simply unable to survive, for the most part, on apples and nuts. - Ravissante

Robert Aickman

#9. It wasn't just that he was breathtakingly handsome with perfect features. Which he was. But there was something else, too.

K.F. Breene

#10. Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

Kobe Bryant

#11. Avoid employing unlucky people - throw half of the pile of CVs in the bin without reading them.

Ricky Gervais

#12. Art, to me, is a question. It should never be an answer.

Marilyn Manson

#13. Not kill us," Pigeon corrected. "She was mainly just trying to turn us into mindless slaves.

Brandon Mull