Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.
The caged bird sings with a fearful trill,
of things unknown, but longed for still,
and his tune is heard on the distant hill,
for the caged bird sings of freedom.
There isn’t time, so brief is life, for bickerings, apologies, heartburnings, callings to account. There is only time for loving, and but an instant, so to speak, for that.
Happiness is always there. You just have to choose to see it. There’s no point dwelling in the dark and ignoring the light of the stars.
The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
If you can’t run, you crawl. If you can’t crawl– you find someone to carry you.
Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
Just because someone desires you, it does not mean that they value you.
Read it over.
Again.
Let those words resonate in your mind.
I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful.
It’s just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it’s time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.
You can’t outwit fate by standing on the sidelines placing little sidebets about the outcome of life. either you wade in and risk everything you have to play the game or you don’t play at all. and if u don’t play u can’t win.
If you care about what you do and work hard at it, there isn’t anything you can’t do if you want to.
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
My past has not defined me, destroyed me, deterred me, or defeated me; it has only strengthened me.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it’s our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand.
The splendid thing
about falling apart
silently…
is that
you can start over
as many times
as you like.
No. Don’t give up hope just yet. It’s the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
That proves you are unusual,” returned the Scarecrow; “and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.
Love the trees until their leaves fall off, then encourage them to try again next year.
And that’s when I understand that I have been stained. Whether I’m still in love with him, whether he was ever in love with me, and no matter who he’s in love with now, Willem changed my life. He showed me how to get lost, and then I showed myself how to get found.
Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones?
We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.
Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
[Verse 223]
Don’t limit a child to your own learning, for she was born in another time.
Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.
I hate to say it, but shit really does happen. You just have to get over it. Beat the hell out of it by doing things that make you happy.
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs.
Yes, I understand why things had to happen this way. I understand his reason for causing me pain. But mere understanding does not chase away the hurt. It does not call upon the sun when dark clouds have loomed over me. Let the rain come then if it must come! And let it wash away the dust that hurt my eyes!
When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
Nothing’s perfect, the world’s not perfect. But it’s there for us, trying the best it can; that’s what makes it so damn beautiful.
It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.
…Next time you’re faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run.
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that, when we are, death is not come, and, when death is come, we are not.
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
Challenge and adversity are meant to help you know who you are. Storms hit your weakness, but unlock your true strength.
She was a beautiful dreamer. The kind of girl, who kept her head in the clouds, loved above the stars and left regret beneath the earth she walked on.
Be silent and safe — silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Here is a rule to remember in future, when anything tempts you to feel bitter: not “This is misfortune,” but “To bear this worthily is good fortune.