Julianne MacLean quotes

“Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another. You’ve had more than your share of knocks lately, I’ll give you that, but it doesn’t mean you get to quit. No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.”
-- Julianne MacLean

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“I have learned that most of us must face some form of challenge in our lives. But without hardship, we wouldn’t learn and grow.”
-- Julianne MacLean

Source : Julianne MacLean (2012). “Married by Midnight: Pembroke Palace Novella”, p.96, Julianne MacLean

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“Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.”
-- Julianne MacLean

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“Bev Pettersen writes with flair and a down-to-earth warmth that will make you smile and sigh with contentment.”
-- Julianne MacLean

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“He took a moment to get over the shock, and to remind himself that this had surely been difficult for her and she was probably bracing herself for a rejection. At least he hoped she was. If she wasn't, she needed to do that straight away, because it was coming. God damn right it was coming.”
-- Julianne MacLean

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“Writing is a solitary occupation, and we like it that way.”
-- Julianne MacLean

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“Life is hard. It’s cruel sometimes. It’s merciless and unfair, but we all go through difficult times, one way or another. You’ve had more than your share of knocks lately, I’ll give you that, but it doesn’t mean you get to quit. No one gets to quit. You keep fighting, every day, and sooner or later, the grief fades a little. You grow stronger, find joy again, and everything gets easier. You come out of it more equipped to handle the next wave, which will come eventually. There will always be waves.”
-- Julianne MacLean

#Grief Quotes #Mean Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Don’t lose faith in the good things, even when life is tough. The good things come in waves, along with the bad.”
-- Julianne MacLean

Source : Julianne MacLean (2015). “The Color of Heaven Series Collection: An 8-book Women’s Fiction Boxed Set”, p.150, Julianne MacLean

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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”

Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72

“Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art — even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?”

“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”

“Television in the 1960s & 70s had just as much dross and the programmes were a lot more tediously patronising than they are now. Memory truncates occasional gems into a glittering skein of brilliance. More television, more channels means more good television and, of course, more bad. The same equation applies to publishing, film and, I expect, sumo wrestling.”

“I am grateful for - though I can't keep up with - the flood of articles, theses, and textbooks that mean to share insight concerning the nature of poetry.”

“We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech--but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun....”

“We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals.”

“If I had a life with Woods to look forward to I knew I could fight whatever darkness that tried to take me. Before Woods, I didnt know what I was living for. In my search to find myself, Id found so much more. I knew now why I wanted to live. I understood love. I had found it.”

“At the same time the Muslims are commanded to exercise self-restraint as much as possible. Force is a dangerous weapon. It may have to be used for self-defense or self-preservation, but we must always remember that self-restraint is pleasing in the eyes of Allah. Even when we are fighting, it should be for a principle not out of passion.”

“Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.43, Courier Corporation