Mess Quotes

• God answers the mess of life with one word: Grace.

  Max Lucado

  Grace, Answers, Poor Choices

  Twitter post from Mar 18, 2014

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• The meaning of life. The wasted years of life. The poor choices of life. God answers the mess of life with one word: 'grace.'

  Max Lucado

  Years, Choices, Grace

  Max Lucado (2014). “Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine”, p.7, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

  Anne Lamott

  Life Is, Perfectionism, Clutter

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• If it is not a mess, it is not progress.

  Robin Sharma

  Progress, Ifs

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• Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things.

  T. S. Eliot

  Success, Failure, Entrepreneur

  Family Reunion (1939) pt. 2, sc. 3

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• If you're not messing up every now and then at practice, you're not doing anything above your ability to progress.

  Crazy Legs

  Motivational, Dance, Practice

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• One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.

  E. M. Forster

  Friendship, Trust, Real Friends

  E.M. Forster (1951). “Two Cheers for Democracy”

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• The world isn't tidy; it's a mess. I don't try to make it neat.

  Garry Winogrand

  Trying, World, Neat

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• Don't mess with me, lady. I've been drinking with skeletons.

  Mike Mignola

  Drinking, Skeletons, Don't Mess With Me

  John Arcudi, Mike Mignola (2011). “B.P.R.D.: The Black Flame #2”, p.1, Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)

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• God can make greatness out of a great mess

  Joel Osteen

  Greatness

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• If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

  Neil Gaiman

  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running, Socialist Government, People

  "This Week" with Llew Gardner, www.margaretthatcher.org. February 5, 1976.

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• It's easy to make a mess when you're not the one who has to clean it up.

  Criss Jami

  Easy, Clean

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.12, Criss Jami

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• I like someone who is a little crazy but coming from a good place. I think scars are sexy because it means you made a mistake that led to a mess.

  Angelina Jolie

  Sexy, Crazy, Mistake

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• Clean up your own mess.

  Robert Fulghum

  Cleaning, Clean

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• Life is just a plain bloody mess, that's all. And people are fools.

  Athol Fugard

  People, Fool, Life Is

  Athol Fugard (2000). “Port Elizabeth Plays”, p.27, Oxford Paperbacks

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  You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  Robin Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Depression

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Confused, Tired, Thinking

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• Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

  Gena Showalter

  Bulls, Harpies, Horns

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Surrender”, p.168, HQN Books

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• Make a mess. Clean it up.

  Keri Smith

  Clean

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• Don't mess with my money.

  Lowell Fulson

  Last Words

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• When we talk about settling the world's problems, we're barking up the wrong tree. The world is perfect. It's a mess. It has always been a mess. We're not going to change it. Our job is to straighten out our own lives.

  Joseph Campbell

  Spiritual, Jobs, Perfect

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• Every time i try and wink at someone, I mess it up and end up scaring people.

  Taylor Swift

  People, Trying, Ends

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• The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.

  Hugh Jackman

  Philosophy, Mean, Play

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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