Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
…a God that did everything we thought was right and good wouldn’t be the creator of the universe. He would be our puppet.
The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Things will get easier, people’s minds will change, and you should be alive to see it.
Can’t stand all these poisonous creatures, all these snakes and insects and fish and things. Wretched things, biting everybody. And then people expect me to tell them what to do about it. I’ll tell them what to do. Don’t get bitten in the first place. (quoting Dr. Struan Sutherland)
Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.
If a man was around when Aunt Kathy came by, she would berate him and throw him out. I even saw her toss guys out at gunpoint. She’d threaten them and say, “I will shoot you until I can’t see you!” I remember thinking, “How is that possible? That’s a lot of damn shooting!”
I’m the biggest critic of my own work, but sometimes you nail a chapter so good that you have to take a step back and admire that bitch.
One of the lessons that I grew up with was to always stay true to yourself and never let what somebody else says distract you from your goals. And so when I hear about negative and false attacks, I really don’t invest any energy in them, because I know who I am.
Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.
Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
You should never start a company with the goal of getting rich. Your goal should be making something you believe in and making a company that will last.
Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
I asked her if I was black or white. She replied “You are a human being. Educate yourself or you’ll be a nobody!
Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve decided to look beyond the imperfections.
Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.
Wherever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion, or political views, that place must — at that moment — become the center of the universe.
We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
If I work hard enough, there will be things I can do tomorrow that I can’t do today.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain!
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
Life keeps throwing me lemons because I make the best lemonade…
Don’t tell me about your god with your words. Show me about your god with your actions.
Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.
Do no harm and leave the world a better place than you found it.
What the mind can conceive and believe, and the heart desire, you can achieve.
Ten spears go to battle,” he whispered, “and nine shatter. Did the war forge the one that remained? No, Amaran. All the war did was identify the spear that would not break.
Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.
Do not let the memories of your past limit the potential of your future. There are no limits to what you can achieve on your journey through life, except in your mind.
When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few
We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them.
It has always seemed to me that a coward is a person who cares more about what people say than about what is right. Bravery isn’t about what people call you, Spensa. It’s about who you know yourself to be.
The world takes us to a silver screen on which flickering images of passion and romance play, and as we watch, the world says, “This is love.” God takes us to the foot of a tree on which a naked and bloodied man hangs and says, “This is love.
When you don’t know what to do for yourself, do something for somebody else.
If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
I am a strong believer in the tyranny, the dictatorship, the absolute authority of the writer.
Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
I want to be like the air. The good-hearted person whose kindness overflows and people realize how important she was to them, once she is gone. I want to be that kind of person.
It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and accepting who you are.
To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely,
To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored,
To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down.
Chew on your feelings that are cornerned like you would chew on rice.
Anyway, life is something that you need to digest.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today
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