Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life that matters, but the courage, fortitude and determination you bring to it.
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed.
Some want to live within the sound
Of church or chapel bell;
I want to run a rescue shop,
Within a yard of hell.
Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?
Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.
Don’t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
You don’t have to be great to get started, but you have to get started to be great.
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all.
Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
You are a human with one life and its up to you to make it the best life you can.
May the fleas of a thousand camels invade the crotch of the person that ruins your day. And may their arms be to short too scratch
What the soul hardly realizes is that, unbeliever or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.
But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?
Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.
The good thing about being old, is you don’t have to worry about dying young.
Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace.
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.
You are doing the best you can, and that best results in good to yourself and to others. Do not nag yourself with a sense of failure. Get on your knees and ask for the blessings of the Lord;then stand on your feet and do what you are asked to do.
Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.
Do not change the parts of yourself that you like to make others comfortable. Do not try to mold yourself to fit the standards someone else has set for us.
If you are still breathing maybe it is not such a bad day after all…
Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
A young outcast will often feel that there is something wrong with himself, but as he gets older, grows more confident in who he is, he will adapt, he will begin to feel that there is something wrong with everyone else.
Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
Woman is a delicate creature with strong emotions who has been created by the Almighty God to shoulder responsibility for educating society and moving toward perfection. God created woman as symbol of His own beauty and to give solace to her partner and her family.
Criticism – however valid or intellectually engaging – tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off).
Count your blessings. Once you realize how valuable you are and how much you have going for you, the smiles will return, the sun will break out, the music will play, and you will finally be able to move forward the life that God intended for you with grace, strength, courage, and confidence.
Quit being so hard on yourself. We are what we are; we love what we love. We don’t need to justify it to anyone… not even to ourselves.
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
Every person has a right to risk their own life for the preservation of it.
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.
Nothing but a symbol? People die for symbols. People have hope because of symbols. They’re not just lines. They’re histories, cultures, traditions, given shape.
Heaven wheels above you, displaying to you her eternal glories, and still your eyes are on the ground
Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.
Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.
The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
God has given us more than fourteen billion cells and connections in our brain. Why would God give us such a complex organ system unless he expects us to use it?
What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause … In my mind the losers are those who don’t have a cause they care about.
Maybe we shouldn’t be looking for love. Maybe we should be looking for a person. Because maybe you can find love in a person, but not have that person. So if you look for love, what you will find is love. But if you want to belong to someone, and you want someone to belong to you, you should look for a person.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Go out in the woods, go out. If you don’t go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.
All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
It’s a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you’ve been to all the places you don’t need to be.
What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.