Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Ive learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
One isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.
We, unaccustomed to courage exiles from delight live coiled in shells of loneliness until love leaves its high holy temple and comes into our sight to liberate us into life. Love arrives and in its train come ecstasies old memories of pleasure ancient histories of pain. Yet if we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls. We are weaned from our timidity In the flush of love’s light we dare be brave And suddenly we see that love costs all we are and will ever be. Yet it is only love which sets us free.
Be a rainbow in someone elses cloud.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humour, and some style.
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
I believe that the most important single thing, beyond discipline and creativity is daring to dare.
Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.
I encourage you to live with life. Be courageous, adventurous. Give us a tomorrow, more than we deserve.
There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
Children’s talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaken need for an unshakable God.
I believe that every person is born with talent.
I’ve learned that regardless of your relationship with your parents, you’ll miss them when they’re gone from your life.
When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.
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