This is no dress rehearsal.
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.
If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.
Leaders inspire. They aren’t assigned leadership. They command it.
I mean, I’m very, very competitive.
Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.
People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.
We’ll love you just the way you are if you’re perfect.
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.
And I’ll stand on the ocean until I start sinking.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
I’d rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.
You’ve got to teach youngsters the difference between right and wrong, but you shouldn’t try to poke it down their throats. Let them ask the questions and then give them the answers.
When you allow a person’s words to upset you, you’re giving away your power.
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you.
Flawed and (still) worthy.
Water from the white fountain didn’t taste any better than from the black fountain.
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
We tell lies when we are afraid, . . . afraid of what we don’t know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.
One day I will kiss you, kiss you with lips that understand, kiss you with lips that can better explain, that can speak in so many languages. They will know how to say I love you in ways you have never heard, in ways that sound unlike anything any other man has mouthed before, false promises and fairy tales they did not ever believe in. One day I will kiss you, pressed words between your lips. I will kiss you and they will rattle between your teeth, run down your throat, and fill your lungs. They will echo against your ribs, they will reverberate through your limbs, they will dress every corner you’ve kept sadness hidden away until all that grows inside of you is the understanding that you are enough. One day I will tell you all about my paper napkin theories, algorithms I formed that demonstrate how the sum of all that you are, is greater than infinity, but to me you have always been the one.
When people believe in boundaries, they become part of them.
