Joyce Rachelle

“If a normally kind, agreeable person makes an enemy of you, you ought to ask yourself why.”

“Much of someone's real character lies in what they don't say about themselves.”

“Indifference destroys vocation unlike any other intangible force, for the reason that it shakes the very core of our motivation for doing what we do.”

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

“Invisibility can be good as a superpower. But psychiatry reveals people don't like it very much.”

“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.”

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

“It's not about the extent to which something happened or did not happen; it's whether we choose to confront evil and call it what it is, or simply let it pass because it 'wasn't enough of a big deal'.”

“But men are bound to saySome things that, though untrue,Will get you down the aisleUntil you say "I do.”

“There is more to hear in what is not said.”

“How might it feel to be fully present in every moment all of the time?”

“Very often I realize that the time people spend apart is as important in maintaining relationships as the time they spend together.”

“They always tell you to do what you love. But they forget to add that writing doesn't pay by the hour.”

“She was a poetry book with the wrong dust jacket, shelved in the Reference section.”

“If I exist, then surely there must be someone else out there like me.”

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

“Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice.”

“May any praise of your character come from others instead of yourself.”

“Dear Teenage Self,That guy you're crazy about,Will ask you out On a dateIn about ten years, so don't fretYou'll get there yet.But fate is cruelOn that day,That feeling will have gone away.”

“Yes you have returnedAnd things are as they wereBut this you cannot hide,A part of you has died.”