And sometimes focusing on what you can control is the only way to lessen the pang in your chest when you think about the things you can’t.
Everytime I plant a seed,he say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.
Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.
Dance like you’re stamping on a human face forever, love like you’ve been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there’s no such thing as God.
Do not become someone else just because you are hurt. Be who you are & smile, it may solve, all problems you have got.
Hiduplah Untuk Memberi yang Sebanyak-banyaknya, Bukan untuk Menerima yang Sebanyak-banyaknya. (Pak Harfan)
Don’t let anyone take care of you. Can you maybe leave that for me to do? I mean, take care of you? Feel free to take care of me in return… because I think I’ll need you to do that.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction.
{Speech accepting the John Burroughs Medal}
There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.
The blade sings to me. Faintly, so soft against my ears, its voice calms my worries and tells me that one touch will take it all away. It tells me that I just need to slide a long horizontal cut, and make a clean slice. It tells me the words that I have been begging to hear: this will make it ok.
Were knowledge all, what were our need
To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed?
O love, O fire! once he drew
With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.
Mother is a verb. It’s something you do. Not just who you are.
When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.
My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.
When life doesn’t meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.
She was broken, I think it’s because she loved too much and she was always blind to the fact that love too is sometimes broken.
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.” ~ ‘ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.” –
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable–but I always was so, only I never knew it!
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible
Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?”
“In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind.
Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing
Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.
That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too. It’s a new feeling, something I’m getting used to.
When pain and talent mix together, that’s when you’re able to persevere in your goals in life; the pain gives your talent something to feed into.
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you’re abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
Each day is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.
Be yourself. Don’t worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they’re probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.
When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.
I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.
Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
It’s okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank’s name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
You don’t always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one
-Henrietta Barett