Sandy Natoli > Sandy's Quotes

“You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Courage is fear that has said its prayers and decided to go forward anyway.”
― Joyce Meyer, I Dare You: Embrace Life with Passion

“Put your expectations on God, not on people.”
― Joyce Meyer

“Cultivo una rosa blanca,
En julio como en enero,
Para el amigo sincero
Que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
El corazon con que vivo,
Cardo ni oruga cultivo
Cultivo una rosa blanca.

I have a white rose to tend
In July as in January;
I give it to the true friend
Who offers his frank hand to me.
And to the cruel one whose blows
Break the heart by which I live,
Thistle nor thorn do I give:
For him, too, I have a white rose.”
― José Martí, Versos Sencillos: Simple Verses (Recovering the Us Hispanic Literary Heritage) (Pinata Books for Young Adults)

“Day and night I always dream with open eyes.”
― Jose Marti

“The first duty of a man is to think for himself”
― Jose Marti

“Todo es hermoso y constante,
Todo es música y razón,
Y todo, como el diamante,
Antes que luz es carbón.”
― Jose Marti, Simple Verses/Versos Sencillos

“Books console us, calm us, prepare us, enrich us and redeem us.”
― Jose Marti

“Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.”
― Jose Marti

“To Educate is to Free.”
― José Martí

“I thought back to med school, when a patient had told me that she always wore her most expensive socks to the doctor's office, so that when she was in a patient's gown and shoeless, the doctor would see the socks and know she was a person of substance, to be treated with respect. (Ah, there's the problem - I was wearing hospital-issue socks, which I had been stealing for years!”
― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air