Esther Earl Quotes

A life is not meant to be half lived. It is meant to be fully, wholly embraced. If you want to make a change in the world you have to be strong. You have to take chances. You have to persevere. Sometimes you must blindly go in a direction that you may be unsure of, but one that you have faith will lead you to the right place. ~ Esther Earl

I like music, indie stuff, but I don't like liking music that other people like. ~ Esther Earl

Love, intensity, value, passion, rejection, hope, care, failure, joy. What life throws at us never makes sense. Thinks we're at life's dispense. How long we should try to change ourselves. The weight of death, the weight of fear. The burden of stress, the pain is here. Never to know, never to guess, never to know, how much mess. Do not show care, do not have love, do not feel joy, or you may change. ~ Esther Earl

I know I always carry her with me, and to have a piece of her grace shine through me is a gift I will continually strive to earn. ~ Esther Earl

What's the point of opening yourself up to your friends if they don't notice you in your vulnerable state? The point of it all is to love friends completely and utterly, at their best and worst, and to love more than just the good things. It's about showing that you're willing to accept them for whatever they are, that they should not feel insecure or self-conscious in your presence, which can be a hard task to achieve. ~ Esther Earl

My life is really stressful and before finding the vlogbrothers, nerdfighteria, you guys, I wasn't you know dead, but I really do feel like I have so much more in my life. ~ Esther Earl

Normal?! What the heck is normal? Healthy is, I guess, my definition of it. Apparently. ~ Esther Earl

If you haven't done something amazing, don't forget to try. the worst that can happen is you fail, and then you can just try again until you succeed. those words don't work on me now, but just try to remember them ~ Esther Earl

I feel very lucky to know you - and as far as I have seen, to know you is literally to love you. ~ Esther Earl

When loved ones die, people always say, "Don't be sad. I'm sure they would have wanted you to be happy." I'm sure that's true. But let's be realistic here, people also want to be missed. It is every person's nightmare to leave the world behind as if they had never been there at all. ~ Esther Earl

Saying you love someone is a good thing. ~ Esther Earl

Esther was uncommon not because she was sick but because she was Esther, and she did not exist so that the rest of us could learn Important Lessons about Life.The meaning of her life-likethe meaning of any life- is a maddeningly ambiguous question shrouded in uncertainty ~ John Green

I do hope that when the day comes, whether in 1, 10, or 100 years, I don't want you to think of me and feel sad. ~ Esther Earl

And I remember telling God that whatever happens, happens. I remember telling myself He's in control. ~ Esther Earl

God is the reason I'm surviving, but he's sure used you in my life wonderfully. I love you. ~ Esther Earl

If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different? ~ Esther Earl

I most definitely knows God is strong. If he were weak he would not have been able to hold me when I'm tired, and he dose. His graciousness is wonderful, when we get annoyed at him he says "I Forgive You" always. God can be trusted, and we, or at least I, have found that not trusting God to keep me safe through all this cancer stuff would drive me crazy. ~ Esther Earl

To Feel
The weight of death, the weight of fear,
the burden of stress, pain is here.
Never to know, never to guess.
Never to know, how much the mess
Do not show care,
do not feel joy,
do not have love,
life's not a toy
and yet we feel,
we have,
we show,
who knows ...
I do not know.
I do not know.
(2007) September 9 ~ Esther Earl

I want to make a difference, to help someone. And I don't know how. ~ Esther Earl

Remember that you're lucky even if you don't think you are. Because there's always something you can be thankful for. ~ Esther Earl

She was a champion of the lonely, a welcomer of strangers, an inviter. ~ Esther Earl

The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance. Good friendships, online or off, urge us toward empathy; they give us comfort and also pull us out of the prisons of our selves. ~ Esther Earl

We live in a world defined by its boundaries: You cannot travel faster than the speed of light. You must and will die. You cannot escape these boundaries. But the miracle and hope of human consciousness is that we can still conceive of boundlessness. ~ Esther Earl

I'm worried about my friend not being imagined complexly enough. ~ Esther Earl

I dislike the phrase 'Internet friends,' because it implies that people you know online aren't really your friends, that somehow the friendship is less real or meaningful to you because it happens through Skype or text messages. The measure of a friendship is not its physicality but its significance.
(John Green-Introduction) ~ Esther Earl

If I am asked to give advice to those who are inclined to spend their time and their money on the Turf I should give them the advice 'Punch' gave to those about to marry
– don't." --5th Earl of Roseberry

The Fast Set: The World of Edwardian Racing by George Plumptre, 1985. ~ D.E. Ireland

For her, their romantic interlude atop the staircase had been a glorious, magical, enlightening introduction to pleasure. For him,it had merely been Friday evening. ~ Anna Bennett

I don't like the way they judge you," she whispered. "Especially Holloway."
"Holloway is a bitch." She gasped at the word, and he continued in her ear. "She deserves a thrashing. It's a shame that her earl is too feeble to do it."
Pleasure lanced through Penelope at the words, and she could not help her smile. "You seem to have few qualms about spanking women."
"Only those I like. ~ Sarah MacLean

What have we to offer, really, other than who we are and what God has been pouring into our lives? It was not by accident that you were born; it was not by chance that you have the desires you do. The Victorious Trinity has planned on your being here now, "for such a time as this" (Esther 4:14). We need you. ~ John Eldredge

He says,'Why is it love, Esther? Why call it that?'
'Because. Why is what you do art? Because you say so. ~ Gwendoline Riley

Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age. ~ Esther Meynell

Truth and fiction are so aptly mixed that all seems uniform and of a piece. ~ Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon

It's so much fun to interact together. ~ Esther Hicks

No man is so insignificant as to be sure his example can do no hurt. ~ Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon

What a nice surprise! Come on up! "

"I hope you don't mind - it's urgent."

"Of course not! I was just about to make some tea, do you want some?"

"Doctor, have you... Looked out the window recently?"

"Oh, the fire? Yes, I was wondering about that.
I've got earl grey and oolong. Take your pick!"

"There is no time for that, Doctor. You need to get out of here - it's not safe."

"There's always time for a cup of tea! ~ Noelle Stevenson

When you feel WHOLE, things come to enhance your WHOLEness. When you feel broken, things come to enhance your brokenness. That's why you CANNOT FILL A VOID. That's why the premise from which you attract your relationship is so important. ~ Esther Hicks

Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But watch out if you are in a lifeboat and there are others who are younger, bigger, or smarter. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

There had been talk about me getting involved with the new team in Houston. I don't know if it's something that will become a realization, but it would be something that I would love to do. ~ Earl Campbell

It's hard to experience desire when you're weighted down by concern. ~ Esther Perel

Finding lack in others is not the path to liking what you see in yourself. ~ Esther Hicks

Maybe someone will step up, but they don't have anyone right now. ~ Earl Monroe

In old age the secret springs of human nature are apt to come out. ~ Esther Forbes

You know what happens to sex in marriage? Instead of inviting desire, you monitor it. Especially men: You let her sleep late, you take the kids to the park, and all that time you're thinking, "Tonight I'll get some." That doesn't work. ~ Esther Perel

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use. ~ Earl Nightingale

My mother grew up with each of her children - whatever your age, that's the age she'd be when she listened to your stories. She never belittled our problems. It made for something permanent and reliable. ~ Esther Rolle

Since we parted yester eve, I do love thee, love, believe, Twelve times dearer, twelve hours longer,- One dream deeper, one night stronger, One sun surer,-thus much more Than I loved thee, love, before. ~ Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton

On some level we trade passion for security, that's trading one illusion for another. It's a matter of degree. We can't live in constant fear, but we can't live without any. The fear of loss is essential to love. ~ Esther Perel

You become what you think about. ~ Earl Nightingale

As a teacher, his task was not to make policy but to follow the policy made by the Department. ~ Earl Lovelace

It is not what happens to you in life that makes the difference. It is how you react to each circumstance you encounter that determines the result. Every human being in the same situation has the possibilities of choosing how he will react - either positively or negatively. ~ Earl Nightingale

Isn't it a shame that future generations can't be here to see all the wonderful things we're doing with their money? ~ Earl Wilson

I wish I was Rapunzel
Letting down her hair
But at the bottom of my tower
There's nobody stood there.
No prince to carry me off to the sunset ...
The reason why of course,
I don't look like his princess,
I look like his horse. ~ Rae Earl

You weren't s
then, Tiger. You ain't s
now. You ain't never gonna be s
. ~ Earl Woods

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination. ~ Earl Nightingale

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. ~ William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick the timing and the way. ~ Esther Hicks

Because of the Law of Attraction, each of you is like a powerful magnet, attracting unto you more of the way that you feel at any point in time. ~ Esther Hicks

I was married then. I was the happiest of the happy. - Esther Summerson ~ Charles Dickens

Lloyd George is a one-eyed fellow in blinkers. ~ Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl Of Rosebery

I started playing baseball and soccer. Those were my sports on the streets and in school when I was growing up. I didn't even start playing basketball until I was 14. ~ Earl Monroe

Modern relationships are cauldrons of contradictory longings: safety and excitement, grounding and transcendence, the comfort of love and the heat of passion We want it all, and we want it with one person. Reconciling the domestic and the erotic is a delicate balancing act that we achieve intermittently at best. It requires knowing your partner while remaining open to the unknown, cultivating intimacy that respects privacy. Separateness and togetherness alternate, or proceed in counterpoint. Desire resists confinement, and commitment mustn't swallow freedom whole. ~ Esther Perel

The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fix'd the fountains of this temporal light, where stately stars enstall'd, some stand, some stray, all sparks of his great power (though small) yet bright. By what none utter can, no, not conceive. All of his greatness, shadows may perceive. ~ William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. ~ Earl Weaver

(Success is about a happy life, and a happy life is just a string of happy moments. But most people do not allow the happy moments because they are so busy trying to get a happy life.) ~ Esther Hicks

Listen more than you talk. Whatever the context, people will think you're smarter. ~ Esther Dyson

Love is an exercise in selective perception ~ Esther Perel

"Sunday" was the best one I think I made. ~ Earl Sweatshirt

Every emotion, from despair all of the way up to ecstasy; from complete Connection to who-you-really-are, all the way to pinching yourself off pretty severely, all of those emotions are about your perception of freedom, or your perception of bondage - every one of them. ~ Esther Hicks

The Earl of Woolsey was indeed completely nude. He did not seem particularly perturbed by this fact, but Miss Tarabotti felt the sudden need to close her eyes tight and think about asparagus or something equally mundane. Coiled about him as she was, her chin wedged over one of his massive shoulders, she was being forced to look down, directly at a nicely round, but embarrassing bare, moon. And not the kind that caused werewolves to change either. Although it did seem to be changing aspects of her own anatomy that she would rather not think about. It was all a very heady - or bottomy? -experience. ~ Gail Carriger

I ain't eatin out in no Lawrenceville," said Earl with disdain ~ Jesse Andrews