Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams.
Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, ‘She doesn’t have what it takes.” ~ ‘ They will say, ‘Women don’t have what it takes.” –
We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable–but I always was so, only I never knew it!
It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible
Rogerson,” I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, “where would I find the pelagic zone?”
“In the open sea,” he said. “Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Feel your emotions,
Live true your passions,
Keep still your mind.
Though we tremble before uncertain futures
may we meet illness, death and adversity with strength
may we dance in the face of our fears.
I don’t want anyone to hold back who they are. It’s not okay… it’s not a good thing
Kung matatakot kang harapin ang totoo at sabihin ang talagang nararamdaman mo dahil baka masaktan ka, isa lang ibig sabihin noon: ipinagkait mo na sa sarili mo ang pagiging masaya at kinarir mo ang magpakatanga.
Buy a pup and your money will buy
Love unflinching that cannot lie.
That’s why I’m sorry. I’m sorry because you shouldn’t have to be everything to me. I had you, but I’d forgotten that I had myself too. It’s a new feeling, something I’m getting used to.
When pain and talent mix together, that’s when you’re able to persevere in your goals in life; the pain gives your talent something to feed into.
This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero!
Choices, numberless as grains of sand, had layered and compressed, coalescing into sediment, then into rock, until all was set in stone.
Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.
A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you’re abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.
Difficulties increase the nearer we get to the goal.
After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength
Each day is God’s gift to you. What you do with it is your gift to Him.
Be yourself. Don’t worry about what other people are thinking of you, because they’re probably feeling the same kind of scared, horrible feelings that everyone does.
When you’re good at something, you’ll tell everyone. When you’re great at something, they’ll tell you.
I attribute my success to this:—I never gave or took an excuse.
Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.
The world is full of painful stories. Sometimes it seems as though there aren’t any other kind and yet I found myself thinking how beautiful that glint of water was through the trees.
Fortune does favor the bold and you’ll never know what you’re capable of if you don’t try.
Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion.
It’s okay to be a loser, it just depends on how good you are at being one.
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank’s name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
You don’t always have to kiss a lot of frogs to recognize a prince when you find one
-Henrietta Barett
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.