Quotes of Nanci Griffith

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Live well. Sing out, sing loud, and sing often. And God bless the child that's got a song.

- Nanci Griffith

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“ It's all a conundrum, isn't it— forgetting the mixed tape in the car... feeling forgotten when... so many people are thinking of us? Drinking when we should be eating... sleeping when we should be making love... thanking God above when we don't have enough? Each day is a mad rush to something irrelevant. We measure our pricelessness by our successes, which... still equals money. Life goes by so quick when each day is a mad rush to slow motion. We eat fast food so that we can go to bed on time, but, trust me, everyone wakes up too late. ”

- Heather Angelika Dooley

“ When love is pursued, fear is surrendered, and you gain the freedom to worship in spirit and in truth. ”

- Deborah Brodie

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed

“ A successful marriage requires falling in love many times always with the same person. ”

- Mignon McLaughlin

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexations to the spirit. ”

- Max Ehrmann

“ Because, if you could love someone, and keep loving them, without being loved back . . . then that love had to be real. It hurt too much to be anything else. ”

- Sarah Cross

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Even when I'm dead, I'll swim through the Earth, like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones. ”

- Jeffrey McDaniel

“ Dream so big you get uncomfortable telling smallminded people. ”

- Praharsh Prasoon

“ I know that the whole point—the only point—is to find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go. ”

- Lauren Oliver

“ After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language? ”

- Russell Hoban

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ Whether you know or not, you are the infinite potential of love, peace and joy ”

- Amit Ray

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ If you listen more, you will judge less; and when you judge less, you will appreciate differences; and you will be more happy. ”

- JOHN TASKINSOY

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ You know her well. People are harder to sum up when you know them well. ”

- Veronica Roth

“ I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of my universe had been rewritten. Suddenly I was a brand new person. I was as fragile as a newborn, but instead of the doctor placing me in my mother’s arms, he’d put me in Ren’s. What would Ren do with me? Would he draw me near, soothe me, and teach me about this new world or would he reject me and tell the doctor there must be some mistake. There was no way to know. What a breakable and delicate thing a heart was, no wonder I’d kept mine locked away. ”

- Colleen Houck

“ One thing I learned out of all these years is nobody really riding wit you like they say n I’ll always keep my guard up cause of all the fuckery. ”

- Genereux Philip

“ Love doesn't sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread: remade all the time, made new. ”

- Og Mandino