The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done– done, see you!– under that sky there, every day.
Faith don’t come in a bushel basket, Missy. It come one step at a time. Decide to trust Him for one little thing today, and before you know it, you find out He’s so trustworthy you be putting your whole life in His hands.
Baby you’re a firework, c’mon show ’em what you’re worth…” ~Firework
Happiness is a mysterious thing, to be found somewhere between too little and too much.
It’s weird, how you have no idea how far you’ve come until suddenly you can’t find the way back.
Rich People plan for three generations
Poor people plan for Saturday night
The energy of hatred won’t get you anywhere; but the energy of forgiveness, which reveals itself through love, will transform your life in a positive way.
Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we’re here. To make each other feel safe.
It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
There are only two forces at work in this world- black and white. Only people are grey.
The greatest challenge of the day is: how to bring about a revolution of the heart, a revolution which has to start with each one of us?
Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin.
Together, we will raise the dunes from the earth, and rain death from the sky. Together, we are capable of anything.
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.
I think it’s usually better to face the world as it is. The more we try to hide from something, the more power we give it.
Life is so outrageous I could not have imagined it, made all the
sweeter because it cannot last. It is all about today. Today is the
best day ever because tomorrow might not happen.
Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured…Spend your free the way you like, not the way you think you’re supposed to.
In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.
If you can’t be honest with your friends and colleagues and loved ones, then what is life all about?
The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.
Nobody is wired wrong, because there’s no wrong and right in the way we are.
The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they’d lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.
The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that’s normal, because ‘a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.
Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.
The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..
When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.
One discovers that destiny can be diverted, that one does not have to remain in bondage to the first wax imprint made on childhood sensibilities. Once the deforming mirror has been smashed, there is a possibility of wholeness. There is a possibility of joy.
The sun will rise no matter what pain we encounter. No matter how much we believe the world to be over, the sun will rise.
And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor’s pocket? No, it’s not as easy as that. If that were all, I’d say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren’t. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
The study of history is the best medicine for a sick mind; for in history you have a record of the infinite variety of human experience plainly set out for all to see: and in that record you can find for yourself and your country both examples and warnings: fine things to take as models, base things, rotten through and through, to avoid.
Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
What is grander than a country and more valuable than gold? Strength of heart.
Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.
It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you’ve got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.
You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
That’s a misconception, Lennie. The sky is everywhere, it begins at your feet.
Just because you can’t imagine something doesn’t mean you can’t do it.
Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul.
Thus we never see the true state of our condition till it is illustrated to us by its contraries, nor know how to value what we enjoy, but by the want of it.
We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention…. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar.
(Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time.
Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.