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.
We lay there and looked up at the night sky and she told me about stars called blue squares and red swirls and I told her I’d never heard of them. Of course not, she said, the really important stuff they never tell you. You have to imagine it on your own.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey.
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.
It’s better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You’ll find what you need to find. Just read.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
The major work of the world is not done by geniuses. It is done by ordinary people, with balance in their lives, who have learned to work in an extraordinary manner.
Blindness separates people from things;
deafness separates people from people.
If you find yourself drawn to an event against all logic, go. The universe is telling you something.
Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…
Be not deceived, Wormwood, our cause is never more in jeopardy than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe in which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.
To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground.
Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself…
You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.