Quotes from Joyce Rachelle

You will do well not to write for money, not because you won't get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.

Going away won't change anything if you're running from yourself.

There's something very enticing about an empty bench under a tree. And if it's facing a river, that's the bench for me.

How strange it is beholding this, and, very confident, proclaim that such magnificenceoccurred by accident.

If this cursed and fallen worldholds such beauty as what I see, Imagine the beauty of paradisethat's gladly waiting for me.

I know I can't own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.

If you think about life simply as one big waiting room for eternity, who cares if it's not fully air conditioned?

We like to think we're in control but we never are.

The horizon changes but the sun does not.

When I trust someone I do it without doubt or fear or reservation. And then I work on a Plan B.

It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.

Those who claim to be on the side of good yet do nothing to fight evil are on the side of evil.

Those who are acquainted with failure acquire the unique ability to dare without fear of it.

If we can't have world peace, I'll settle for a quiet room.

There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.

Life did come with a manual.

There is never enough time to enjoy what you love.

Sometimes exhaustion is not a result of too much time spent on something, but of knowing that in its place, no time is spent on something else.

Nobody ever goes before their time.

The more time you have to do things, the less you are able to get done.

When people say they're unemployed, bored, or have nothing to do, I sigh and think, "If only time were transferable.

There is comfort, even among strangers, when people find something they are equally passionate about.

Be wary of smooth talkers. Words are rarely at your disposal if something is wholly, truly, completely true.

Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.