If your feet are firmly planted on the ground you’ll never be able to dance.
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.
We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.
We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.
I may not always be with you
But when we’re far apart
Remember you will be with me
Right inside my heart
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
Make the most of yourself….for that is all there is of you.
Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.
The heart is the toughest part of the body.
Tenderness is in the hands.
The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon…. If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.
A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.
True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one’s companion.
Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That’s what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.
Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.
We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left.
Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you’ll land among the stars
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives – choice, not chance, determines your destiny.
Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Hearts are breakable,” Isabelle said. “And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before”.
We never know the quality of someone else’s life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them…to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.
. . . when it comes down to it, that’s what life is all about: showing up for the people you love, again and again, until you can’t show up anymore.
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …
I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: “Go down again – I dwell among the people.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I –
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Be steady and well-ordered in your life so that you can be fierce and original in your work.
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
If you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
If we listened to our intellect we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go in business because we’d be cynical: “It’s gonna go wrong.” Or “She’s going to hurt me.” Or,”I’ve had a couple of bad love affairs, so therefore . . .” Well, that’s nonsense. You’re going to miss life. You’ve got to jump off the cliff all the time and build your wings on the way down.
When things break, it’s not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again. It’s because a little piece gets lost – the two remaining ends couldn’t fit together even if they wanted to. The whole shape has changed.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.
You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone’s soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.
Because,’ she said, ‘when you’re scared but you still do it anyway, that’s brave.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.