Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Do the kind of things that come from the heart, When you do, you won’t be dissatisfied, you won’t be envious, you won’t be longing for somebody else’s things. On the contrary, you’ll be overhelmed with what comes back
Try to remember it always,” he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. “Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.
I lied and said I was busy.
I was busy;
but not in a way most people understand.
I was busy taking deeper breaths.
I was busy silencing irrational thoughts.
I was busy calming a racing heart.
I was busy telling myself I am okay.
Sometimes, this is my busy –
and I will not apologize for it.
There’s no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities. Then you grow older and that innocence is shattered and somewhere along the way the reality of life gets in the way and you’re hit by the realization that you can’t be all you wanted to be, you just might have to settle for a little bit less.
You can’t dwell on what might have been…and it’s not fair to condemn him for something he hasn’t done.
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind.
Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you’re pissed off at someone and you’re angry at them, you just haven’t given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
Life is and will ever remain an equation incapable of solution, but it contains certain known factors.
My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.
Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.
Kecantikan yang abadi terletak pada keelokan adab dan ketinggian ilmu seseorang. Bukan terletak pada wajah dan pakaiannya.
Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.
Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can’t promise you’ll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don’t try.
Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm
Where your talents and the needs of the world cross, there lies your vocation.
Love doesn’t always come when you want it to. Sometimes it just happens, despite your will.
I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.
Don’t ever give up.
Don’t ever give in.
Don’t ever stop trying.
Don’t ever sell out.
And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment,
pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off.
But never, ever, ever give up.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
IN THE END… We only regret the chances we didn’t take, the relationships we were afraid to have,and the decisions we waited too long to make.
Before I go,” he said, and paused — “I may kiss her?”
It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, “A life you love.
If I am the pawn of the gods, it is because they know me so well, not because they make my mind up for me.
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that’s all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
It is quite a revelation to discover that the place you wanted to escape to is the exact same place you escaped from. That the prison wasn’t the place, but the perspective.
Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn’t your pet — it’s your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don’t make a right, but don’t two negatives make a positive?
To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.
Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference.
The trick is to enjoy life. Don’t wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.
Tearing down the rest of the world won’t make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That’s what fills the emptiness. It’s the only things that can.
You’ve got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you’re not.
Wherever the art of Medicine is loved, there is also a love of Humanity.
For the world is in a bad state, but everything will become still worse unless each of us does his best.
My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death.
There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape – own it – break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.
I don’t chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I’ll hold the fucking door open for you.
She’s a woman, you’re a dude. You’re not supposed to understand her. That’s not what she’s after…. She doesn’t want you to understand her. She knows that’s impossible. She just wants you to understand yourself. Everything else is negotiable.