Sharon E. Rainey quote: "Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently."

Acceptance doesn’t mean that life gets better; it just means that my way of living life on life’...
SHARON E. RAINEY

Forgiveness enables me to walk away from that pain, the loneliness and suffering.
SHARON E. RAINEY

With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His w...
SHARON E. RAINEY

No more martyring myself.
SHARON E. RAINEY

I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.
SHARON E. RAINEY

The Aramaic word for “forgive” means literally to “untie.” Hatred and anger had bound me to ...
SHARON E. RAINEY

I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper, mor...
SHARON E. RAINEY

NO” is a complete sentence. It does not require an explanation to follow. You can truly answer som...
SHARON E. RAINEY

I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation an...
SHARON E. RAINEY

In that instant, I realized that if I focused on the pain and misery, it would take me longer to hea...
SHARON E. RAINEY

Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming...
SHARON E. RAINEY

Extreme emotional pain has a profound effect on the body. I witnessed my already frail body become e...
SHARON E. RAINEY

I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind the...
SHARON E. RAINEY

This is where life as I knew it changed. This is where a new feeling slowly, eventually, permeated e...
SHARON E. RAINEY

It is important for me to focus on positive actions taken to heal instead of beating myself up over ...
SHARON E. RAINEY

Time heals even the deepest wounds.
SHARON E. RAINEY

So often we speak of finding our callings, when often our callings find us. We can choose to honor o...
SHARON E. REED

My favorite movies growing up were things like 'The Wizard of Oz,' but as I got older, I rea...
RAINEY QUALLEY

I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportuni...
RAINEY QUALLEY

I am honored to be selected as the 2012 Miss Golden Globe. It's very exciting to be a part of an...
RAINEY QUALLEY

I always was drawn to the performing arts. I started dancing when I was two. I sang, loved to act, a...
RAINEY QUALLEY

Your marriage moves toward a state of isolation. Unless you lovingly and energetically nurture your ...
DENNIS RAINEY

White folks hear the blues come out, but they don't know how it got there.
MA RAINEY

The other thing is mosquito repellent. We don't sell it. I just give them a squirt and they're happy...
NIKKI RAINEY

We put them under pressure but they were able to counter better than other teams we've played.
RON RAINEY

If approved, it would generate an additional revenue stream for us.
ANITA RAINEY

It ... came after they had been warned about the practice.
ANITA RAINEY

They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there. They don't understand that's life's way...
MA RAINEY

Careful old-timer, your age is showing.”
“Hey, I’m only thirty-two. I’m in my prime, wo...
ANNE RAINEY

Not as many as they should. More of them are distracted by what's on TV or what catches their ear.
JEFF RAINEY

This year we want to make it the biggest, most spectacular fireworks celebration that we've ever had...
JEFF RAINEY

Mike pretty much funded it out of his own pocket based on his love of the community.
JEFF RAINEY

They'll be able to meet it. There's different ways of meeting that, too. They can come up with cash....
JEFF RAINEY

We want the work to come to Florida, and we want to do the work.
JEFF RAINEY

I just want to take baby steps. We have to start with the fundamentals.
HEATHER RAINEY

I know I want to teach them all that I have learned. I want to teach from my experiences.
HEATHER RAINEY

It's easy for us. We just got of college and just finished playing lacrosse. They can trust us, we k...
HEATHER RAINEY

I was very excited, I knew it was a new program. It's really good I get to coach with Lauren. We bot...
HEATHER RAINEY

[Unlike other stations, he said, the coverage will be relevant for the viewer.] It is local, all the...
LEE RAINEY

We certainly expect as this initiative expands there's going to be some opportunities for people as ...
LEE RAINEY

We do a lot of on-air weather, but this is a major new initiative for us, ... It's a real win for ce...
LEE RAINEY

We offer so much here and work with all animals. People can go on tours of the vet school, large and...
JENNY RAINEY

It gives the public a day to come and walk around our school and see what we have to offer here. We'...
JENNY RAINEY

My parents have supported me thoroughly through anything I've chosen to do.
PATRICK RAINEY

To our team's credit, we really worked hard in the box to get on the end of serves and put ourselves...
RON RAINEY

I'm very unpredictable. Very, very impulsive. Extremely. Absolutely! Sometimes I don't know ...
SHARON TATE

Voting is the expression of our commitment to ourselves, one another, this country and this world.
SHARON SALZBERG

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are abo...
SHARON GLESS

From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if w...
SHARON SALZBERG

Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seei...
SHARON SALZBERG

In a single moment we can understand we are not just facing a knee pain, or our discouragement and o...
SHARON SALZBERG

The combination of realizing our distinctiveness along with our unity is seeing interdependence.
SHARON SALZBERG

'Bridget Jones' is meant to be a funny night out, but with emotional truth. I wanted to make...
SHARON MAGUIRE

But I've always believed that Christine Cagney shouldn't be played past a certain age.
SHARON GLESS

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have thing...
SHARON GLESS

Yeah, I've always been accused of having a sense of mischief and I'm very flattered that you...
SHARON GLESS

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do...
SHARON SALZBERG

We've got 400,000 girls with beach-y blonde hair, the same nose, gigantic lips, implants in thei...
SHARON STONE

If someone loves you, they should not be envious of you pouring your heart and soul and time and ene...
SHARON SWAN

It doesn't matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a dar...
SHARON SALZBERG

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection
SHARON SALZBERG

Pleasure feels better than pain. Make the pursuit of pleasure your guide.
SHARON WEIL

Patience is not waiting; it is a quality of waiting.
SHARON WEIL

We are supposed to write the truth, for no one to see but ourselves. But how easily that truth can b...
SHARON CAMERON

It's my choice today that is the memory of tomorrow. It's my choice that determines what I will beco...
SHARON CAMERON

We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
SHARON STONE

If you have a vagina and an attitude in this town, then that's a lethal combination.
SHARON STONE

The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.
SHARON LEE

Basically I am interrested in friendship, sex, and death.
SHARON RIIS

So do I wish I was to be king? That is not a question I ask myself. I ask myself, Would I be a good ...
SHARON SHINN

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and aff...
SHARON SALZBERG

Throw out an alarming alarm clock. If the ring is loud and strident, you're waking up to instant str...
SHARON GOLD

I think I am aging, but I'm enjoying the process.
SHARON STONE

Voting is like alchemy - taking an abstract value and breathing life into it.
SHARON SALZBERG

I've had the same breasts for my entire adult life.
SHARON STONE

I think, for a long time, people just did not know what to do with me. I looked like a Barbie doll, ...
SHARON STONE

I think so many people tend to think of faith as blind adherence to a dogma or unquestioned surrende...
SHARON SALZBERG

There's no praise or acknowledgment paid to women who raise the babies.
SHARON GLESS

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold...
SHARON SALZBERG

Perfect happiness is a beautiful sunset, the giggle of a grandchild, the first snowfall. It's th...
SHARON DRAPER

Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE

The government, under my leadership, will act to implement the rule of law and to maintain the indep...
ARIEL SHARON

Someone who has experienced trauma also has gifts to offer all of us - in their depth, their knowled...
SHARON SALZBERG

We need the compassion and the courage to change the conditions that support our suffering. Those co...
SHARON SALZBERG

This idea that being youthful is the only thing that's beautiful or attractive simply isn't ...
SHARON STONE

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state...
SHARON SALZBERG

I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and l...
SHARON DRAPER

I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand a...
SHARON DRAPER

With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w...
SHARON DRAPER

I believe I'm a better writer now than I was when I started. I'm grateful that I had good gu...
SHARON DRAPER

Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book.
SHARON DRAPER

I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ...
SHARON DRAPER

I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
SHARON DRAPER

A good book ought to bring out lots of different responses from those that read it - none of them pr...
SHARON DRAPER

Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do...
SHARON DRAPER

I try to give a voice to teens, who might be afraid to speak up about difficult issues, and a platfo...
SHARON DRAPER

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them,...
SHARON DRAPER

I learned to dream through reading, learned to create dreams through writing, and learned to develop...
SHARON DRAPER

I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the...
SHARON JONES

You know, sometimes I feel well and vital in the world, and sometimes I just feel so distressed I wa...
SHARON STONE

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
SHARON BEGLEY

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help y...
SHARON SALZBERG

Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cu...
SHARON STONE

We can learn the art of fierce compassion - redefining strength, deconstructing isolation and renewi...
SHARON SALZBERG

The strength that I have comes from irrigating the citrus plantation, ploughing in the vineyard, gua...
ARIEL SHARON

And they were writing scripts where Christine had hit the glass ceiling. And I always thought Christ...
SHARON GLESS

But it took me awhile to figure out Christine at this age, you know.
SHARON GLESS

The way they were writing Christine as this older woman who got married, which she shouldn't hav...
SHARON GLESS

At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claus...
SHARON STONE

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chan...
SHARON SALZBERG

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing the...
SHARON SALZBERG

I guess I kind of lived in a fairytale world... looking at everything through rose-colored glasses. ...
SHARON TATE

I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would ma...
ARIEL SHARON

What I've learned from my visit here is that the plan -- disengagement plan -- contributes to the se...
ARIEL SHARON

The United States was surprised to hear that Israel was allegedly planning to modify the (road map) ...
ARIEL SHARON

The handling of the problem of the Egyptian border with the Gaza Strip is a very delicate and compli...
ARIEL SHARON

We attach vast importance to Egyptian activity in the Gaza Strip and along the border, but I don't i...
ARIEL SHARON

It is an old project launched by Ariel Sharon when he was housing minister nearly 15 years ago,
ARIEL SHARON

The terrorist attack was perpetrated by members of Islamic Jihad,
ARIEL SHARON

Palestinians who have reached a conclusion that, with terror, they can't achieve anything. And the w...
ARIEL SHARON

Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewi...
ARIEL SHARON

By now we're over 60 percent out... The number of infiltrators has been halved,
ARIEL SHARON

I've never been willing to lie about my age. Why on earth would I want to tell people I'm 35...
SHARON STONE

Sexiness is all in the eye of the beholder. I think it should be. Absolutely. My sex appeal, whateve...
SHARON TATE

I loved old black and white movies, especially the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals. I loved ...
SHARON STONE

I think the associations people have with kindness are often things like meekness and sweetness and ...
SHARON SALZBERG

As for meat, I'm not going to become vegetarian. I'm telling you that right now. I want me a...
SHARON JONES

The sad and horrible conclusion is that no one cared that Jews were being murdered... This is the Je...
ARIEL SHARON

Our names are an integral part of the faces we show to the world. If we're judged first on outwa...
SHARON BOLTON

As women, we understand our bodies, and there's a blossoming that occurs. We're hungry for g...
SHARON STONE

Patience doesn't mean making a pact with the devil of denial, ignoring our emotions and aspirati...
SHARON SALZBERG

The power of a person derives not from the office he occupies but from a clear sense of direction an...
ARIEL SHARON

We have a good arrangement. Roman lies to me and I pretend to believe him.
SHARON TATE

Things don't just happen in this world of arising and passing away. We don't live in some ki...
SHARON SALZBERG

Arafat is the greatest obstacle to peace and stability in the Middle East.
ARIEL SHARON

Arafat is hosting, training, supporting, sponsoring terrorist organizations.
ARIEL SHARON

Arafat conducts terror; his strategy is the strategy of terror.
ARIEL SHARON

Jordan is Palestine. The capital of Palestine is Amman. If Palestinian Arabs want to find their poli...
ARIEL SHARON

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring...
SHARON SALZBERG

Every Jew has the right to ascend onto the Temple Mount.
ARIEL SHARON

Israel has many hopes, and faces extreme dangers. The most prominent danger is Iran, which is making...
ARIEL SHARON

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.
SHARON HORGAN

I go on benders where I just exercise like a maniac. And then I go on benders where I just can only ...
SHARON STONE

I can go completely berserk with the makeup, depending on the event. I'm currently in this very ...
SHARON STONE

I tried for modelling work but it was a bit slow and that's when I took a part-time job at McDon...
SHARON STONE

I could do nice, but it's just not as much fun. Being nice isn't my biggest goal in life. I&...
SHARON STONE

Israel is a wonderful country. It's a beautiful country. It is ours. But it is a country with 10...
ARIEL SHARON

If we are nothing, there is nothing at all to serve as a barrier to our boundless expression of love...
SHARON SALZBERG

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that ...
SHARON SALZBERG

She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exis...
SHARON MAAS

I call on the Western democracies and primarily on the leader of the free world, the United States: ...
ARIEL SHARON

Handsome young men should not act as if they know it.
SHARON CAMERON

After I was really unhappy and unhealthy, I think it dawned on me to stop doing the unhappy, unhealt...
SHARON STONE

It is impossible to have a Jewish, democratic state and at the same time to control all of Eretz Isr...
ARIEL SHARON

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, iso...
SHARON SALZBERG

As we hone the ability to let go of distraction, to begin again without rancor or judgment, we are d...
SHARON SALZBERG

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every ...
ARIEL SHARON

Expressions of disobedience naturally encourage terrorist organizations and motivate them to intensi...
ARIEL SHARON

It was a grave mistake to dismantle the Jewish communities in Sinai.
ARIEL SHARON

If I wrote in a sonnet form, I would be distorting. Or if I had some great new idea for line breaks ...
SHARON OLDS

I don't think there is anything wrong with cosmetic surgery at all. I think it's great. But ...
SHARON STONE

I'm fascinated by the idea of disparate, difficult people learning to trust each other when they...
SHARON SHINN

David Ben-Gurion understood that the public's trust is given to a leader in order to lead, deter...
ARIEL SHARON

Love and compassion don't at all have to make us weak, or lead us to losing discernment and visi...
SHARON SALZBERG

Iran, Libya and Syria are irresponsible states, which must be disarmed of weapons of mass destructio...
ARIEL SHARON

Many actresses do that kind of shoot when they are in their early 20s but I didn't think I had a...
SHARON STONE

Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then whe...
SHARON CREECH

The older I get, the more I feel
almost beautiful...
SHARON OLDS

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
SHARON SALZBERG

Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we do...
SHARON SALZBERG

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intent...
SHARON SALZBERG

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.
SHARON SALZBERG

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more lik...
SHARON SALZBERG

Any ordinary favor we do for someone or any compassionate reaching out may seem to be going nowhere ...
SHARON SALZBERG

Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.
SHARON SALZBERG

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see t...
SHARON STONE

The birth of a child is a very special time in the life of a parent. We wanted to give parents an oc...
SHARON WILSON

birth pangs of a process.
ARIEL SHARON

All the prime ministers have built the settlement blocs, but I built more than all of them, ... Sett...
ARIEL SHARON

I try not to cut the sheep, or ruin the fleece.
SHARON ALLEN

A day will come when other Israelis will be launched into space in the service of science and progre...
ARIEL SHARON

We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails pain...
ARIEL SHARON

If anybody says their facelift doesn't hurt, they're lying. It was like I'd spent the ni...
SHARON OSBOURNE

I once fell 20 feet from a tree, was knocked unconscious, and when I picked myself up and straggled ...
SHARON CREECH

I wear Aveda Energizing oil. I am big into aromatherapy.
SHARON STONE

My interest in Women in Film came from attending the Crystal Awards in 1998 where Meryl Streep and p...
SHARON LAWRENCE

We like things to manifest right away, and they may not. Many times, we're just planting a seed ...
SHARON SALZBERG

When you're wide open, the world is a good place.
SHARON SALZBERG

I'm sitting at home every time there's a Grammy. It's like, 'What is Sharon doing to...
SHARON JONES

They won't now be accused of bowing down to political pressure if they do decide to lower rates.
SHARON COOMBS

I think that there are fiction writers for whom that works well. I could never do it. I feel as if, ...
SHARON OLDS

On April 19 1943, the Bermuda conference gathered, with the participation of representatives from Br...
ARIEL SHARON

I don't know why I keep saying this, and I don't know why I keep using their names... And I&...
SHARON JONES

You always get things that teach you and steps to grow, but there is a confidence that is gained and...
SHARON LAWRENCE

It was just a courtesy call, not part of an official state visit.
SHARON GANG

I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in...
SHARON STONE

I'm not here to put down men, God love them and I'm married to one, but I do think they are ...
SHARON GLESS

working document... not a take it or leave it document.
ARIEL SHARON

When I read good stories, I want to write good stories too.
SHARON CREECH

I cannot just write a frivolous book, a la-di-da book. Everything isn't la-di-da. There is somet...
SHARON CREECH

Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

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Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do things differently.

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