The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you
want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve.
There was no private ownership of land. “You could own a knife, or you could own a horse, but you couldn’t own ground any more than you could own the sun or the wind. The Earth was their mother and part of the Cosmos given to all creatures by the Great Spirit.
Slow down and enjoy life. It’s not only the scenery you miss by going too fast – you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.
She looked away. Her attitude seemed to suggest that she had finished with him, and would be obliged if somebody would come and sweep him up.
But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window–maybe rearrange all the furniture.
When all is said and done, the life of faith is nothing if not an unending struggle of the spirit with every available weapon against the flesh.
I can’t seem to be a pessimist long enough to overlook the possibility of things being overwhelmingly good.
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
I don ‘t know what the future holds, but what I know is that as long as I can enjoy life, anywhere is my stage.
Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, “Make me feel important.” Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.
This must be Thursday,’ said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. ‘I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.
Life changes. It can change a lot if you have the right mind and keep working hard.
Whoever said that the past isn’t dead had it backward. It’s the future that’s already dead, already played out.
Love someone because their soul inspires you, not because you’re interested in the relief from loneliness and companionship they can provide. Anybody can do that. Not just anybody can show you to yourself.
My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature.
Stories you read when you’re the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you’ll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.
No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
Nothing is built on stone; All is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
How easy it was to capitalize on a person’s own bent for self-destruction; how simple to nudge them into non-being, then to stand back and shrug and agree that it had been the inevitable result of a chaotic, catastrophic life.
Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life – we’re striving for this perfection, and it’s so unhealthy because there’s no such thing as perfection.
We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.
I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
It’s strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.
Science is a way of life. Science is a perspective. Science is the process that takes us from confusion to understanding in a manner that’s precise, predictive and reliable – a transformation, for those lucky enough to experience it, that is empowering and emotional.
We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.
..because never in my life have I ever been picked when there was another alternative.
There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it’s the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism.
My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.
There is only one difference between a long life and a good dinner: that, in the dinner, the sweets come last.
My mother is probably the wisest person I’ve ever known. She’s not schooled, she’s not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.
She supposed they were imperfections, those marks, but they didn’t feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body: the map of a life of endless war.
I am suddenly comsumed by nostalgia for the little girl who was me, who loved the fields and believed in God, who spent winter days home sick from school reading Nancy Drew and sucking menthol cough drops, who could keep a secret.
The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.
You never know what’s around the corner. It could be everything. Or it could be nothing. You keep putting one foot in front of the other, and then one day you look back and you’ve climbed a mountain.
She was like a drowning person, flailing, reaching for anything that might save her. Her life was an urgent, desperate struggle to justify her life.
Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.
Whatever you do, do with determination. You have one life to live; do your work with passion and give your best. Whether you want to be a chef, doctor, actor, or a mother, be passionate to get the best result.
My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.
Six hundred and forty fish later, the only thing I know is everything you love will die. The first time you meet someone special, you can count on them one day being dead and in the ground.
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.