Top 120 Joyce Rachelle Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “Solitude is the canvas of a thinking mind.”

— Joyce Rachelle

52. “I write things down because my thoughts get too heavy in my head and it hurts my neck.”

— Joyce Rachelle

53. “When we’re struck with cruelty, we can either inflict the same on others like it’s a rite of passage, or decide that here is where it stops.”

— Joyce Rachelle

54. “There is something quite wonderful about sharing a secret.”

— Joyce Rachelle

55. “When in doubt, stay silent. People can’t tell if you’re plotting a nuclear war or just bored.”

— Joyce Rachelle

56. “Try staying awake for 24 hours and you’ll realize just how many needless worries your mind instantly shuts out.”

— Joyce Rachelle

57. “I know I can’t own a hilltop, a meadow, or a mountainside. But keeping it a secret somehow makes it mine.”

— Joyce Rachelle

58. “Much of life must go by without comment.”

— Joyce Rachelle

59. “How you feel about home after holiday says a lot about home.”

— Joyce Rachelle

60. “Always make an effort to be around people who will help you grow.”

— Joyce Rachelle

61. “True ability is undisturbed by pretentious criticism.”

— Joyce Rachelle

62. “You will do well not to write for money, not because you won’t get rich doing it, but because writing fueled by that sort of motivation becomes dull and lifeless and mediocre.”

— Joyce Rachelle

63. “As a child, I was very careful not to erase my mother’s writing on the chalkboard because I would miss her.”

— Joyce Rachelle

64. “Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you.”

— Joyce Rachelle

65. “Take comfort in the knowledge that you are different, even from the different ones.”

— Joyce Rachelle

66. “When you are entrusted with a secret, you become irrevocably accountable for what you do or don’t do after your mind is colored by the knowledge of it.”

— Joyce Rachelle

67. “What a loss it would be if feminism killed chivalry.”

— Joyce Rachelle

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

— Joyce Rachelle

69. “She didn’t realize she was in a prison until she collided with the bars.”

— Joyce Rachelle

70. “We like to think we’re in control but we never are.”

— Joyce Rachelle

71. “What happens in my next chapter depends on whether I wake up feeling creative or murderous.”

— Joyce Rachelle

72. “Nobody ever goes before their time.”

— Joyce Rachelle

73. “I think the worst sort of time travel is how the clock speeds up when I’m on my break.”

— Joyce Rachelle

74. “There is a way of reacting to insult that gives people the impression that you want more. I don’t know what it is, but I seem to have mastered it.”

— Joyce Rachelle

75. “There is a real danger when caring begins to lose its emotional dimension and becomes nothing but a verb.”

— Joyce Rachelle

76. “The praise and glorification of God doesn’t exclusively spring from deep and untroubled understanding; it is in spite of – and even because of – deep and troubled circumstance.”

— Joyce Rachelle

77. “If we can’t have world peace, I’ll settle for a quiet room.”

— Joyce Rachelle

78. “If I don’t talk about it, it’s either very displeasing or very precious to me.”

— Joyce Rachelle

79. “Some secrets are heavy because they aren’t yours to tell.”

— Joyce Rachelle

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

— Joyce Rachelle

81. “If you can’t give it all you’ve got, don’t bother.”

— Joyce Rachelle

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

— Joyce Rachelle

83. “Not everything that happens in your life has to hit you like a hurricane.”

— Joyce Rachelle

84. “Frustration often steers you to the right path.”

— Joyce Rachelle

85. “What advantage has the person who will not listen over the one who cannot hear?”

— Joyce Rachelle

86. “It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.”

— Joyce Rachelle

87. “The sad thing about reading the book and then watching the movie is that they have to die all over again.”

— Joyce Rachelle

88. “Not everything you’re good at is what you’re called to do.”

— Joyce Rachelle

89. “They told me I’ve got writer’s cramp. So is that better than the block?”

— Joyce Rachelle

90. “I’m not an insomniac. It’s just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.”

— Joyce Rachelle

91. “It’s only awkward if it matters.”

— Joyce Rachelle

92. “You can only take too much in pursuit of something you don’t really want.”

— Joyce Rachelle

93. “I get my best writing done when I’m supposed to be doing something else entirely. And that’s why I keep my day job.”

— Joyce Rachelle

94. “How difficult it is to find solitude in a world that constantly demands your attention.”

— Joyce Rachelle

95. “Where you go when you travel is as important as where you are in your life when you do.”

— Joyce Rachelle

96. “Until I looked outside I could not see the universe was standing by for me.”

— Joyce Rachelle

97. “Before you reach the point of forgiveness, you go through the phase where you pray... for every possible misfortune and ill luck to strike them dead while you sit and watch.”

— Joyce Rachelle

98. “Whoever says sleep equals laziness is probably a bitter insomniac.”

— Joyce Rachelle

99. “Much of what I learned about forgiveness I learned by inhabiting the lives of my characters. Even villains act with reasonable intent. Mercy is easier with understanding. Still, it helps that on paper I can kill them off.”

— Joyce Rachelle

100. “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.”

— Joyce Rachelle