We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to ourselves, may we be allowed to read it before we die.
You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.
Oh the places you’ll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
The truth is I didn’t need therapy; I just needed to feel loved and know that someone out there craved my attention.
Sometimes we forget about our own advantages because we focus on what we don’t have. Just because you have to work a little harder at something that seems easier to others doesn’t mean you’re without your own talents.
To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.
Yet, even amidst the hatred and carnage, life is still worth living. It is possible for wonderful encounters and beautiful things to exist.
I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart.
Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
You must take life the way it comes at you and make the best of it.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.
The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.
The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger–but recognize the opportunity.
Life is short. Kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly
It’s never the value of water but thirst, it’s never the value of life but death and it’s never about the friendship but trust.
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is. There is no time to miss anyone or anything because you are alive. Not enjoying what is happening right now is living in the past and being only half alive. This leads to self pity, suffering and tears.
A real scientist solves problems, not wails that they are unsolvable.
If you always attach positive emotions to the things you want, and never attach negative emotions to the things you don’t, then that which you desire most will invariably come your way.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.
There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
I am larger, better than I thought; I did not know I held so much goodness.
All seems beautiful to me.
Whoever denies me, it shall not trouble me;
Whoever accepts me, he or she shall be blessed, and shall bless me.
Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it’s the secret to good sex.
We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.
We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.
To do something that you feel in your heart that’s great, you need to make a lot of mistakes. Anything that’s successful is a series of mistakes.
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Life is painful. It has thorns, like the stem of a rose. Culture and art are the roses that bloom on the stem. The flower is yourself, your humanity. Art is the liberation of the humanity inside yourself.
If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about,
then I don’t know what is.
To get what you want, you have to know exactly how much you are willing to give up.
I wonder,” he said, “whether the stars are set alight in heaven so that one day each one of us may find his own again…
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
I’ve been fighting to be who I am all my life. What’s the point of being who I am, if I can’t have the person who was worth all the fighting for?
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered ‘different.’ She did not suffer too much.
There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.
Sometimes I arrive just when God’s ready to have somone click the shutter.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.
A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.
Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.
Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.
If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, “I’m a free man in here” – he tapped his forehead – “and you’re all right.
I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don’t even know it.
Passion is a feeling that tells you: this is the right thing to do. Nothing can stand in my way. It doesn’t matter what anyone else says. This feeling is so good that it cannot be ignored. I’m going to follow my bliss and act upon this glorious sensation of joy.
The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.
I’d rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.
Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.
The world has enough women who know how to be smart. It needs women who are willing to be simple. The world has enough women who know how to be brilliant. It needs some who will be brave. The world has enough women who are popular. It needs more who are pure. We need women, and men, too, who would rather be morally right than socially correct.