Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
Dumbledore will only leave from Hogwarts when there are none loyal to him!
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
I remembered the fox. One runs the risk of crying a bit if one allows oneself to be tamed.
You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
It’s okay,” he said. “We’re together.” He didn’t say you’re okay, or we’re alive. After all they’d been through over the last year, he knew that the most important thing was that they were together. She loved him for saying that.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Honesty will guide you to goodness, and goodness will invite you to heaven.
We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one.
Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days.
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Have you ever seen the stars in the night? See them closely, they will tell you, how to be open, how to love and how to shine and twinkle without any differences and jealousy of other stars.
When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, your’re the one who is smiling and everyone else is crying.
I am an optimist… I choose to be. There is a lot of darkness in our world, there is a lot of pain and you can choose to see that or you can choose to see the joy. If you try to respond positively to the world, you will spend your time better.
I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.
For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
Pointing to another world will never stop vice among us; shedding light over this world can alone help us.
After all,” Anne had said to Marilla once, “I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.
Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.
A woman’s heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
I don’t trust people who don’t love themselves and tell me, ‘I love you.’ … There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt.
When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.
When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome.
If there were no night, we would not appreciate the day, nor could we see the stars and the vastness of the heavens. We must partake of the bitter with the sweet. There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, they purify, and thus they bless.
A human being has so many skins inside, covering the depths of the heart. We know so many things, but we don’t know ourselves! Why, thirty or forty skins or hides, as thick and hard as an ox’s or bear’s, cover the soul. Go into your own ground and learn to know yourself there.
The upper middle class here still has options for entertainment. We have Internet, Hollywood and books. But for the majority and the masses, there is only TV. A lot of them sit at home and watch TV as they can’t afford other forms of entertainment. So, we try to do shows which have inspirational value.
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It’s an upper. We have enough downers in the world.
Reading was very important to me as a kid. It was very inspirational to me. I went to a school where that wasn’t encouraged so much, but my parents encouraged that, and it has made me part of who I am.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight,
but they, while their companions slept,
were toiling upward in the night.
Books didn’t make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Because saving the people you love isn’t stupid. It isn’t even a choice
Remember, we are our own griefs, my dear, we are our own happinesses and we are our own remedies.
[An excerpt from “My friend, Abigail”]
Stories are like genies…They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do.
Our stories can set us free…When we set them free.
No lake so still but it has its wave.
No circle so perfect but that it has its blur.
I would change things for you if I could; As I can’t you must take them as they are.
Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead