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.
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Sometimes I go to God and say, “God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God’s already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn’t pay Him for what He’s done for me.
I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.
Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions… Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their souls, and pour out peace.
I’ve had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I’ve got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way…I’m in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
Pac said Thug Life stood for ‘The Hate U Give Little Infants Fucks Everybody’.
I hate you.”
I love you.”
You’re a freak, you know that? Everyone says so. They always have.”
I’m trying not to be.
The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.
Nothing’s a better cure for writer’s block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me!
Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
Berhenti bercita-cita adalah tragedi terbesar dalam hidup manusia
A bird is safe in its nest – but that is not what its wings are made for.
In the end, just three things matter:
How well we have lived
How well we have loved
How well we have learned to let go
It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s worth fighting for.
May I share with you a formula that in my judgment will help you and help me to journey well through mortality… First, fill your mind with truth; second, fill your life with service; and third, fill your heart with love.
Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
I don’t know, I don’t want to talk as much. (…) It’s nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one’s heart, like treasures. I don’t like to have them laughed at or wondered over.
Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
That’s everyone’s dream, isn’t it, really? Instead of many who give you little pieces of themselves-one who gives you everything.
When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
We humans do not understand compassion. In each moment of our lives, we betray it. Aye, we know of its worth, yet in knowing we then attach to it a value, we guard the giving of it, believing it must be earned, T’lan Imass. Compassion is priceless in the truest sense of the word. It must be given freely. In abundance.