This is no dress rehearsal.
If you need a miracle, be a miracle.
The number one need in all people is the need for acceptance, the need to experience a sense of belonging to something and someone. The need for acceptance is more powerful in your family than anywhere else…. If that need is not met by your family, trust me, your kids will go elsewhere to seek it in order to find approval and acceptance.
Success means different things in different parts of my life, but overall if I have to define ultimately what success means – the bottom line – then for me it’s if the family is healthy and happy.
What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.
Opinions are like asses, every body’s got one!
If you believe you deserve better, you will create better for yourself.
Come to me, wild and untamed. Bring the oceans on your lips, the mountains on your spine; I want to explore all the places you have ever called home. Let me pluck each petal from the gardens you’ve grown, overcrowded seedlings pushing up through your bones. Come to me dipped in the stars, come to me wearing all your scars. I want to show you just how beautiful you are.
The way out of life and death is not some special technique; essential thing is to penetrate to the root of life and death.
Ageing’s alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.
The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind.
There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.
No, I’m not anguished and tormented.
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage’s whole existence is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free from men.
A goal is a dream with a finish line.
I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Be ready to revise any system, scrap any method, abandon any theory, if the success of the job requires it.
“He who angers you, conquers you.” – Elizabeth Kenny
I can visualize the time when almost every family will have a small plane in their back yard.
Anytime I want to feel closer to the ocean, I just lay by your side and listen to the waves ebb and swell in every breath you give and take, and feel each one crash inside of me. I knew from the first time I saw you that whoever said empty shells carried the ocean’s songs had never met you before.
