This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful.
It is our failure to become our perceived ideal that ultimately defines us and makes us unique. It’s not easy, but if you accept your misfortune and handle it right your perceived failure can become a catalyst for profound re-invention.
Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.
Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.
When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five, I was just alive.
But now I am Six, I’m as clever as clever,
So I think I’ll be six now for ever and ever.
The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison, was the miracle.
It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up towards our dreams.
I believe in some blending of hope and sunshine sweetening the worst lots. I believe that this life is not all; neither the beginning nor the end. I believe while I tremble; I trust while I weep.
Forget your voice, sing!
Forget your feet, dance!
Forget your life, live!
Forget yourself and be!
You often feel tired, not because you’ve done too much, but because you’ve done too little of what sparks a light in you.
Tuhan kan nggak mungkin langsung sedekah ke orang-orang, ya kalianlah sedekah duit kalau punya duit, sedekah ilmu, sedekah senyum.
Masa sih kalau sudah gitu Tuhan gak bales cintamu? Tapi gak mungkin dia belai-belai langsung rambutmu, sentuh bibirmu.
Maka Tuhan ciptakan “wakil”nya, yaitu pacarmu. Maka doalah, “Tuhan, semoga pacarku ini betul-betul orang yang kau pilihkan untukku.
Watch for the thing that will show itself to you. Because that thing, when you find it, will be your future.
We don’t truly appreciate what we have until it’s gone… We don’t really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don’t really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted.
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times — always with the same person.
Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You’ve made mistakes all your life and you’re going to keep making them.
Indeed, the more we find to love, the more we add to the measure of our hearts.
I can’t understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I’m frightened of the old ones.
If there never was a night or day and memories could fade away, then we’d be nothing left but the dreams we made
I don’t regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.
We are constantly trying to hold it all together. If you really want to see why you do things, then don’t do them and see what happens.
What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was.
It is like all my life I thought the sky was green.
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
So what? You’re another person, so of course you look different. What do you need to be ashamed for?
We’re called to be faithful, to take those first difficult steps–and to leave the results up to God.
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all encounter everyday. To say I am alive, I am wonderful, I am. I am. That is something to aspire to.
People are always telling me that i’m not like other girls…that i dont dress like other girls…that i dont act like other girls. But i’m my OWN person…i go to the beat of my own drum.
Something amazing happens when you’re in love and don’t give a damn about what day it is anymore.
I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.
Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.
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.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
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.