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1 " Actually, all fear is born of the imagination, which means the danger we fear doesn't need to be rational or even real to be potent. Like my fear of snakes. When I was eighteen I drove my car off the highway into a ditch because there was a snake on the road. It didn't matter that the snake couldn't have bitten me through the car. It didn't matter that the snake probably wasn't even poisonous or might have even already been dead. It didn't even matter than swerving off the road at fifty miles per hour posed a much greater danger than the snake I was frightened of. Fear doesn't listen to reason. It takes its own counsel. "
― , The Mistletoe Promise
2 " As one who would rather light a candle than curse the darkness. "
3 " Why is it that we so easily confide secrets to strangers that we so carefully hide from ourselves? "
4 " fear doesn't listen to reason it takes it own counsel "
5 " There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively. "
6 " The Golden Rule is a two-edged sword. If some of us treated others as we treat ourselves, we would be jailed. "
7 " People talk of life’s storms as if they are universal experiences. But they’re not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning. "
8 " Often what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. "
9 " I once read that the secret to happiness is having something to do, something to look forward to, and someone to love. "
10 " Everyone can open a book not everyone can appreciate the beauty of the writing. "
11 " It seems a long time since I remembered all I have to be grateful for. Perhaps that's why it's been such a long time since I've been really happy. "
12 " Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag. "
13 " There is not only more to each soul’s journey than we imagine, usually there is more than we can imagine. "
14 " It's easy to hate the game when your losing. "
15 " what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. "
16 " All women like chocolate, it's like female catnip. "
17 " Who is Friedrich Engels?” “He was Karl Marx’s inspiration for the Communist Manifesto. The early nineteenth century was a dark time for the workingman. The majority of the children born to working-class parents died before the age of five. So while Engels wrote about a political revolution, Dickens was writing about a different kind of revolution—a revolution of the heart. He was writing about the things he wrote about in his other books, the welfare of children and the need for social charity. "
18 " what we see clearest in others is what we most avoid seeing in ourselves. Elise "
19 " People talk of life’s storms as if they are universal experiences. But they’re not. Some people hear thunder while others touch lightning. "
20 " I had locked from him the deepest chambers of my fear, only to discover that he had his own key. "
