Always play like an underdog.
If happiness is what you’re after, you’re gonna be let down frequently and you’re gonna be unhappy much of your time. Joy though, joy is the feeling that we have doing what we are fashioned to do, no matter the outcome.
She stepped out barefoot on to the grass, her soul naked, sun beating to her heart’s rhythm, bathing her skin. In her mind, she had already escaped.
There are only ten minutes in the life of a pear when it is perfect to eat.
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
The greatest man in history was the poorest.
Why do the words I want to say, struggle to come out of my mouth. Why does fear have such a grip over me. I shouldn’t have to battle to say all the complimentary things I so desperately want to share. It shouldn’t be this hard, that I have to force myself; it’s wrong that such loving words, should have to be spoken under such duress. I’m aware of how wrong it is, but withholding is all I have known, even though I desire so badly to share my thoughts and feelings with you, as freely as you do with me.
The ship of heaven guides itself and will not accept a wooden rudder.
For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one’s destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.
I shall strike the stars with my unlifted head.
If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don’t be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning Good morning at total strangers.
I would rather have my ignorance than another man’s knowledge, because I have so much of it.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
I sit on a man’s back choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that i am sorry for him and wish to lighten his load by all means possible….except by getting off his back.
