There is power in forgiveness.
What I want people to do is what’s healthy for them.
Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.
These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.
Take it from a guy: If you’re in love with somebody, you will swim the stream, you will climb the mountain, you will slay the dragon. You’re going to get to her somehow, some way.
Sometimes you have to make the right decision, and sometimes you have to make the decision right.
You have the duty and gift of living. You don’t have the right to sit on the sidelines–use your life and get back into the game.
It’s not the time to look for excuses.
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.
The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
It’s hard to see your own face without a mirror.
You can do anything, but not everything.
Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.
Things are as they are. Looking out into the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Some life lessons don’t ever change. But how you embrace them will distinguish you from the pack.
I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.
Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
Opportunities are usually disguised by hard work, so most people don’t recognize them.
To me, you’ll always be the rising suns, the sinking moons, and all the stars that come between the sound of rain and river stones, the warmth of my sheets, the ache in my bones.
