A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Mentally, I was a slut. Physically, I was terrified of intimacy. Spiritually, I didn’t like men.
I was confused.
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.
But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.
My dear Watson,” said [Sherlock Holmes], “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one’s own powers.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.
The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want for nothing. He makes me lie down in the green pastures. He greases up my head with oil. He gives me kung-fu in the face of my enemies. Amen
Humanity has many shortcomings, but none is stronger than pride.
If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll end up miserable.
Somehow I can’t believe that there are any heights that can’t be scaled by a man who knows the secrets of making dreams come true. This special secret, it seems to me, can be summarized in four Cs. They are curiosity, confidence, courage, and constancy, and the greatest of all is confidence. When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
I’ve done my best, and I begin to understand what is meant by ‘the joy of strife’. Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
My goal is this: always to put myself in the place in which I am best able to serve, wherever my gifts and qualities find the best soil to grow, the widest field of action. There is no other goal.
If people make fun of you, that probably means you’re doing something right.
When I left Queen’s my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.
It doesn’t matter if a million people tell you what you can’t do, or if ten million tell you no. If you get one yes from God that’s all you need.
I’d tell men and women in their midtwenties not to settle for a job or a profession or even a career. Seek a calling. Even if you don’t know what that means, seek it. If you’re following your calling, the fatigue will be easier to bear, the disappointments will be fuel, the highs will be like nothing you’ve ever felt.
In definitiv, cu cat vei ridica un zid mai inalt in jurul tau cu atat va fi mai bun cel care-l va sari.
I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.
But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.
I want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.
Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people…but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
Thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, but, above all, thou shalt not be a bystander.
You enter the forest
at the darkest point,
where there is no path.
Where there is a way or path,
it is someone else’s path.
You are not on your own path.
If you follow someone else’s way,
you are not going to realize
your potential.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.
[Quoting Reverend Phillips Brooks, during Remarks at Presidential Prayer Breakfast, February 7 1963]
Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you go, and fix it along the way…
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp,
Or what’s a heaven for?
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.
Create a vision for the life you really want and then work relentlessly towards making it a reality.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
How can you trust me, after what your own brother did to you?”
“Because he was false”, said Damen, “and you are true. I have never known a truer man.
I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.
Don’t be afraid of the shadows, that only means there’s a light nearby.
Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up. I’ve seen it. It’s fascinating.” He releases me but doesn’t pull away, his hand grazing my jaw, my neck. “Sometimes I just…want to see it again. Want to see you awake.
If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.
We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself.
You don’t win races by wishing, you win them by running faster than everyone else does.
Leaders are limited by their vision rather than by their abilities.
Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.
If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.
Life is fragile and temporary. The faces of today quickly become the faces of the past. Sorrow, pain, and anger… it all fades-
except love. Love is forever and there after, even when we’ve fallen to our graves.
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel–it is, before all, to make you see.
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
One of the most spiritual things you can do is embrace your humanity. Connect with those around you today. Say, “I love you”, “I’m sorry”, “I appreciate you”, “I’m proud of you”…whatever you’re feeling. Send random texts, write a cute note, embrace your truth and share it…cause a smile today for someone else…and give plenty of hugs.
Don’t let them win. Don’t let them beat you. Don’t let them steal your magic.
It’s funny, for all it took was a broken heart and that alone was enough, enough for her to do everything she ever dreamed of.
Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
Yes, terrible things happen, but sometimes those terrible things- they save you.
Love is like a good cake; you never know when it’s coming, but you’d better eat it when it does!
If I am truly to become an autonomous woman, then I must take over that role of being my own guardian…I not only have to become my own husband, but I need to be my own father, too.
Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.
Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for
Oh, what a tangled web we weave…when first we practice to deceive.