All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.
Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.
We may be small, and we may be young, but we will shake the world for our beliefs.
So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.
There’s always another storm. It’s the way the world works. Snowstorms, rainstorms, windstorms, sandstorms, and firestorms. Some are fierce and others are small. You have to deal with each one separately, but you need to keep an eye on whats brewing for tomorrow.
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
It’s probably my job to tell you life isn’t fair, but I figure you already know that. So instead, I’ll tell you that hope is precious, and you’re right not to give up.
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
Our lives can’t be measured by our final years, of this I am sure.
It is very strange that the years teach us patience – that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
And though you think the world is at your feet, it can rise up and tread on you.
We are born in one day. We die in one day. We can change in one day. And we can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in just one day.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.
And when I saw him lying dead in a pool of his own blood, I knew then that I hadn’t stopped believing in God. I’d just stopped believing God cared. There might be a God, Clary, and there might be not. Either way, we’re on our own.
I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.
I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else’s life would not have been as rich without us here.
Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it.
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.
Those who have never known the deep intimacy and the intense companionship of happy mutual love have missed the best thing that life has to give.
We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.
Let your life lightly dance on the edges of
Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.
Semua perjalanan hidup adalah sinema. Bahkan lebih mengerikan. Darah adalah darah, dan tangis adalah tangis. Tak ada pemeran pengganti yang akan menanggung sakitmu.
I haven’t been very impressed lately.
By people,
or places,
or the way someone said he loved me and then slowly changed his mind.
Yesterday was surreal. At times K was almost back to herself…funny…interested and relatively mobile. She was tactile and we kissed…she whispered naughty comments into my ear…achingly beautiful…I love her so much
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.
I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another–physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.
Creo que todos tenemos un poco de esa bella locura que nos mantiene andando cuando todo alrededor es tan insanamente cuerdo.
We judge others instantly by their clothes, their cars, their appearance, their race, their education, their social status. The list is endless. What gets me is that most people decide who another person is before they have even spoken to them. What’s even worse is that these same people decide who someone else is, and don’t even know who they are themselves.
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
People wait around too long for love. I’m happy with all of my lusts!
One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.
I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
I’m afraid of time… I mean, I’m afraid of not having enough time. Not enough time to understand people, how they really are, or to be understood myself. I’m afraid of the quick judgements or mistakes everybody makes. You can’t fix them without time. I’m afraid of seeing snapshots, not movies.
Maybe everyone is just waiting for someone else to save them.
He stood at the window of the empty cafe and watched the activites in the square and he said that it was good that God kept the truths of life from the young as they were starting out or else they’d have no heart to start at all.
Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so?
There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.
I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just…in between.
Don’t blow off another’s candle for it won’t make yours shine brighter.
Spending time with God is the key to our strength and success in all areas of life. Be sure that you never try to work God into your schedule, but always work your schedule around Him.